December 20, 2015 McConnell keeps Senate late; final Keystone vote slated for next week Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell followed through on a threat to keep members of the upper house of Congress working late Thursday, as he teed up a final vote on a bill approving construction of the Keystone XL pipeline for next week.Â
December 20, 2015 Hoeven says Senate still needs four votes to pass veto-proof Keystone legislation The Senate still needs four votes to pass veto-proof legislation to build the Keystone XL oil pipeline, North Dakota GOP Sen. John Hoeven, who sponsored the legislation, said Sunday.
December 20, 2015 House to vote on No Child Left Behind rewrite The House moved toward a vote Wednesday on a long-sought rewrite of the 2002 No Child Left Behind education law that would roll back the federal government's authority to push academic standards and tell failing schools how to improve.
December 17, 2015 Congress rolls out massive government funding bill Doug McKelway reports from Washington
October 25, 2015 After delay, lawmakers advance California vaccine bill Opponents of a proposal that would require California schoolchildren to be vaccinated vowed to continue their fight after a Senate committee overwhelmingly approved the bill Wednesday.
September 21, 2015 After the Planned Parenthood videos: The message Congress must send The recent Planned Parenthood videos should serve as a crystal clear call to action; we can—and must—do better.
August 3, 2015 Dear Congress, do the right thing on the Planned Parenthood vote Planned Parenthood, subsidized by taxpayers, is killing children and harvesting their organs. Full stop.
July 16, 2015 Planned Parenthood outrage: We cannot be a nation that does this to our children On Tuesday, an undercover video was posted online and reported on by various news outlets that showed a Planned Parenthood executive talking about the organization’s operation of selling body parts of aborted children.
May 14, 2015 Free trade: What both conservatives and liberals are missing in TPA debate When you cut to the chase, conservatives and liberals should stop demonizing trade with unsubstantiated arguments and embrace the long-standing bipartisanship that surrounds the subject.
May 14, 2015 Congress cannot let Obama negotiate a free trade agreement without tough new rules Congress should not permit President Obama to negotiate a free trade agreement with Pacific nations without tough new rules to stop currency manipulation and other cheating on trade deals.