Alexander Bolton

Senate Republicans vented their frustration after former President Trump helped derail a compromise House bill to extend Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) authority, sending lawmakers scrambling to find a Plan B to keep the nation’s intelligence agencies from losing their ability to spy on adversaries and terrorists. Republican senators are warning that the nation’s spy...

Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and other vulnerable Senate Democrats are facing strong political blowback on a vote that will now happen next week to dismiss impeachment charges against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Republicans have already forced Democrats to take several tough votes on immigration and border security and are hitting them hard with attack...

Top Democrats acknowledge that President Biden won't win this year by the same Electoral College landslide he won by in 2020, conceding that winning in Arizona and Georgia will be tough given Biden's low approval rating. But Democrats are counting on what's called the "blue wall" in the Midwest: Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, where Biden...

Senate aides say they expect Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) to immediately dismiss the impeachment charges against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas after the House impeachment managers present them next week. One Senate GOP aide said Schumer is expected to schedule a vote on a motion to dismiss or a motion to table the charges....

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) knew he would be taking a big political risk when he called for new elections in Israel — but weeks later has avoided serious political blowback for his landmark statement and instead given divided Democrats something to rally behind. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his political allies, including...

Former Sen. Joe Lieberman (Conn.), who became the first Jewish vice-presidential candidate of a major party when Al Gore selected him as his running mate in the 2000 election, has died at age 82. His family said he died on Tuesday in New York City surrounded by family, including his wife Hadassah, after suffering complications...

The battle for control of the Senate GOP conference between mainstream Republicans and Trump-aligned conservatives is playing out in key Senate races that could tip more power to conservative Senate rebels. Republican strategists say the outcome of races in Arizona, Maryland, Montana, Ohio and West Virginia will shape the future of the Senate Republican conference...

Senate Republicans are warning former President Trump that restrictions on abortion should be left to the states and that proposing a 15-week national abortion ban ahead of this year’s election would be a major political blunder. Republican lawmakers have argued for years that states should have the authority to set parameters on abortion and hailed...

Republicans are battling among themselves over whether to push reforms to reduce Social Security spending, with some conservatives rallying around the idea of raising the retirement age. Republicans pushing reforms to Social Security argue that raising the retirement age would not cut benefits and would be phased in slowly so as not to affect people...