A lot of gun control advocates are upset about what happened in the Senate on Wednesday as a (mostly) Republican minority filibustered gun regulations that the majority of Americans support.
Erosion takes time. With news that the Senate vote on new gun legislation will move out another week, opponents gain seven more days to wear down support for its elements — even for popular elements like new trafficking regulations.
Only two things have really changed in the push by Senate Democrats to enact a slate of new gun legislation. The first is that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid saved a little face. The second is that a vote isn't coming until April. What hasn't changed is that the Senate is a broken institution.
Politico goes long this morning with a report finding that Salomon Melgen, the ophthalmologist and political donor who may have received favors from Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey, also donated to other politicians! According to the Daily Caller, this is big news.
Republican lawmakers have tried and failed for years to urge presidents to pardon the legendary boxer. Today it looks like some key Democrats might help nudge President Obama once again.
The cloture vote failed, 58-40-1, to move Hagel's confirmation forward and end the filibuster. A new vote will be set for after Senate recess, likely either on February 25 or 26.
With Dianne Feinstein's assault-weapons ban on the table before Congress, Reid's team has chosen a curious time to delete a section of his semi-defunct campaign website touting just how much the NRA approved of his gun-policy beliefs.
Wayne LaPierre got into it with Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace; Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and Gen. Martin Dempsey come to the aid of Secretary of Defense nominee Chuck Hagel.
Harry Reid's dream of filibuster reform is over, thanks to a bipartisan agreement with Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. It's time, then, to take stock of who won and lost from today's deal.
One of the common criticisms of President Obama is that he's too aloof and too uninterested in making friends in D.C. to make to end partisan gridlock in Washington (see Michelle Obama's eye-rolling and John Boehner's speech about Obama trying to "annihilate" the GOP). But the recent deal in the Senate on filibuster reform shows that chumminess isn't working, either.
After the House passed it and Harry Reid vowed to introduce it in the Senate, the controversial bill's passage now seems inevitable. Too bad, then, that it doesn't offer a permanent solution to our perpetual debt-ceiling crisis.
The Senate Majority Leader now says he would employ an obscure (and unprecedented) method of enacting filibuster reform. Will Republicans play along? And why is he turning around on the tactic now?
Of the four things President Obama urged Congress to pass at his gun control speech Thursday, background checks seem like the least unpopular.
The highest ranking Democratic Senators urged Obama to "take any lawful steps" to allow the Treasury to pay U.S. debt obligations if the debt limit isn't raised — including, but not limited to, invoking the 14th Amendment.
After losing the presidential election and several very winnable races, the Republicans enter the 113th Congress with several power struggles. Let's review some of the more interesting ones.
The fiscal austerity crisis has been temporarily averted, but given the apparent animosity between the current leaders of Congress it's a miracle that any deal was made at all.
We've been batting around this fiscal cliff debate for months, and now with just hours left until the deadline, Senators say they remain "apart on some pretty big issues." What are they? And what will we learn on Monday morning?
The fiscal cliff talks that were going so well yesterday have fallen apart, and now Mitch McConnell is reaching out to Vice President Joe Biden to help him see if they can get this deal done.
You would think the Senate and Congressional leaders would be making all kinds of progress towards a fiscal cliff deal considering it quite literally is zero hour and the country is mere days away from actually, really going over the proverbial cliff. But nope! You would be mistaken.
The most powerful people in Washington met at the White House on Friday, and they all walked away, saying and accomplishing close to nothing. President Obama and Speaker Boehner made evening statements, and here's what we know heading into the weekend.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid gave a less than encouraging speech on the Senate floor today, essentially conceded that the fiscal cliff is happening. During his remarks, Reid scolded his House counterpart John Boehner, calling his rule a "dictatorship."
Politicians are more willing to talk about gun control after the Connecticut massacre of 20 first graders and six of their teachers, but is there any chance legislation could pass the House?
In a week of posturing and positioning on Capitol Hill, people on both sides of the aisle acknowledged that McConnell's failed maneuver cost the GOP some precious negotiating ground. The question was how much.
The meeting between President Obama and congressional leaders on the fiscsal cliff went well, and you can tell not by the nice statements released afterward, but by House Speaker John Boehner's face.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is flirting with filibuster reform again, floating the idea of making senators suffer for their filibuster by forcing them to actually stand up and talk nonstop for hours, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington-style
What does it take to take down the 72-year-old Senate majority leader Harry Reid?
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was involved in a car accident on Interstate-15 in his home state of Nevada and has been taken to University Medical Center in Las Vegas.
Jon Huntsman Sr., who was subject of some speculation that he's the Bain investor who leaked knowledge of Romney's tax returns to Harry Reid, flat out denied any role in the story, but he is as curious as Reid to see more Romney returns
The latest speculation on Nevada Sen. Harry Reid's source for his charge that Mitt Romney paid no taxes for a decade is that it was Jon Huntsman Sr., a suggestion fueled by circumstantial evidence and denied by the Huntsman family, but still worth a look because, well, it kind of makes sense.
One of Harry Reid's top aides let slip some information on Reid's source to his 'Romney hasn't paid taxes in a decade' charge, but it was only a matter of time before he backtracked on all the juicy information he gave up.
Jon Stewart went after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid again last night on The Daily Show for the senator's accusation that Mitt Romney hasn't paid taxes. But wait: Reid is the one who put the word out in the first place, Stewart said. "What are you, a one man Mormon Blabbernacle Choir?"
Harry Reid's just like those birthers who hounded Barack Obama into proving he was an American citizen. At least that’s what commentators as diverse as Jon Stewart, Ann Coulter and Frank Bruni all told us, after Reid said that an unnamed Bain investor informed him that Mitt Romney hadn't paid his taxes for ten years. But this is arguable.
Grab your popcorn, get comfortable and tune in during primetime: Harry Reid and Mitt Romney are in the middle of a war of words and it's not going to end any time soon. Taxerism is officially a thing.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says he heard from a Bain investor who heard that Mitt Romney paid exactly zero taxes for 10 years, Reid tells The Huffington Post's Sam Stein and Ryan Grim.
Sure, the White House's reaction to the ongoing controversy over the Chinese-made U.S. Olympics team outfits was a little more tepid than, say, Harry Reid's, Nancy Pelosi's, or, um, Donald Trump's, but it's clear that this issue is not going away any time soon.
Democrats face a dilemma in picking the perfect face for the rich undeserving of their Bush tax cuts: An ugly old man few people have heard of? Or an attractive young woman everyone's heard of?
The Supreme Court's ruling on Arizona's controversial immigration law was confusing for the press, who couldn't decide whether it was a major defeat for President Obama or a victory for the federal government. But Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer was not conflicted at all.
According to the tweets of several reporters present, Reid responded to a question from Roll Call's Stephen T. Dennis about Sen. Mitch McConnell and the DREAM Act with, "I don't want to answer that question. That's a clown question, bro."
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's threat to let steep cuts hit the Pentagon seems to be working, as some staunchly anti-tax Republican Senators appear to be warming to revenue increases.
Ever since the Republican took over the House in 2010, Congressional Democrats have been out-maneuvered in almost every way. But now that's beginning to change as the Senate's top Democrat rallies his troops behind a plan to tame Republican maximalism.
Votes and further consideration of two proposed anti-piracy bills that led websites such as Wikipedia to go dark in protest this week have been stopped in both chambers of Congress.
A bipartisan Senate approved a two-month extension of the current payroll tax cut on Saturday, but House Speaker John Boehner says the House won't go along.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Monday afternoon will offer a new Democratic proposal to expand a payroll-tax cut for employees while tweaking how the bill is paid for in a nod to Republican concerns.
Also: Steven Soderbergh cries U.N.C.L.E., Terrence Malick and your little brother have similar taste in films, and CNN correspondent Jim Acosta did not like being asked to leave an airplane bathroom.
Here's something that might cheer up fatalistic liberals who think all the blame for inaction on jobs will fall on the president: conservatives fear Obama's tax-the-rich message is working.
The Houses passes a disaster relief bill that Senate Democrats can't stand
John Boehner and Mitch McConnell have made their picks for the debt deal committee
The bill gives temporary funding until September 16th
The reported deal should end the shutdown that's left thousands unemployed
Mitch McConnell tells Congress, "U.S.A. will not default."
After heated debate, GOP leaders express confidence a deal will be reached
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