Author: Ramsey Touchberry

Republicans are gearing up for what is likely to be a brutal battle to select a GOP challenger for Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) next year in one of Democrats’ most vulnerable seats. The decision by Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA) to bow out of consideration Monday allowed Democrats to take a victory lap, as it dashed…

The GOP spending cut fights in Congress are about to become all the more contentious. Lawmakers face rolling deadlines throughout May to submit so-called earmarks for the annual budget, a popular mechanism that Republicans have a love-hate relationship with but that offers members of Congress a chance to score funding for local projects. Republicans see…

The idea of impeaching President Donald Trump is gaining steam among select Democrats in Congress but is an unwelcome development for many colleagues who’d rather avoid the subject altogether. It’s familiar territory for a party that twice impeached Trump in his first term but is now an unfathomable scenario in a Republican-controlled Congress, one that…

The retirement of Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), the second-ranked Democrat in the upper chamber, is likely to usher in a new era of confrontation on the prominent Judiciary Committee. Political battles waged over the nation’s court system and presidential judicial nominees often begin on the panel. And the decision by Durbin, its top…

Republican Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general running for Sen. John Cornyn‘s (R-TX) seat, appears to have violated the Lone Star State’s ethics laws by using public resources in his campaign launch ad. The video features uniformed police officers from the Dallas suburb of Collin County, Texas, a move the Texas Ethics Commission told the…

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is vetoing U.S. attorney nominations in two of the country’s most high-profile districts. This is the minority leader’s latest effort to take a harder line on President Donald Trump. Schumer revealed he would not return so-called “blue slip” consent forms for Jay Clayton, nominated for the Southern District of New York,…

Armed with leverage over the future of President Donald Trump’s policy agenda and little faith in Congress, Republican fiscal hawks are holding the White House’s feet to the fire to force deep federal budget cuts. The White House and congressional leaders have dangled an array of cost-cutting options to weary Republican holdouts concerned about the…

Rep. Chris Pappas (D-NH) appears to have violated a city’s policies barring the use of government employees and equipment for political activity in his campaign announcement for New Hampshire’s open Senate seat. The fourth-term congressman’s Senate campaign launch video, published last week, features firefighters and firemen from the city of Manchester, New Hampshire, a move…

Republican Senate leaders on Monday downplayed the notion that a bipartisan bill to claw back Congress’s authority over tariffs from President Donald Trump would receive serious consideration. GOP leaders’ dismissal of a proposal from Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Maria Cantwell (D-WA) to require congressional tariff approval came after a third straight day of plunging…

Democrats longing to ramp up their fight against President Donald Trump and a Republican-controlled Congress have found a standard-bearer in Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ). The 55-year-old senator and one-time presidential candidate’s marathon speech on the Senate floor this week, in which he railed against the Trump administration for a record-breaking 25 hours and 5 minutes,…