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Legislative filibuster likely to survive death of its judicial cousin

The filibuster, what's left of it, appears safe for the foreseeable future...  Read more

Trump must confront President Xi on human rights

President Trump, when campaigning last year, said America had not been tough enough on China...  Read more

It's time to rein in the CFPB

Since I was first elected to Congress, I have fought to hold government agencies and Washington bureaucrats more accountable to Floridians and all Americans...  Read more

White House Official 'Wouldn't Be Surprised' If Trump Brings Up With Xi Chinese Sanctions on South Korea

President Trump may address Chinese sanctions against South Korea in his meetings this week with China President Xi Jinping, according to a senior White House official...  Read more

How to form a governing majority? Try the committee process

After the healthcare repeal bill failed, House Speaker Paul Ryan said he was proud of the bill and of the "long, inclusive, member-driven process that we had."...  Read more

As deadline looms, GOP unclear of path to keep the government open

The government will run out of money four days after Congress returns from its Easter recess...  Read more

Pro-Trump groups may help the president stage primaries against Republicans

Trump is warning conservative House Republicans who have opposed his health care initiative that he might try and oust them next year when they stand for re-nomination...  Read more

Trump's most trusted news source

After all of President Trump's attacks and counter-attacks against the news media, one cable show in particular remains pristine in his eyes: the Fox News morning chat show "Fox & Friends."...  Read more

Chris Coons Claims 41st Spot on Democrats' All-Filibuster Team

With Gorsuch facing procedural block, the nuclear option could be next...  Read more

The house — er, Senate — that Chuck Schumer built

Nearly every outrage in the judicial wars of the past two decades has been perpetrated by Democrats, and mostly Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and his predecessor...  Read more

Cheap pipes will cost communities over time

Republicans are walking tall these days, having earned that right after a victorious election cycle...  Read more

Will Ivanka be an RFK or a Hillary?

Sometimes everything is relative, and at other times relatives seem to be everything, at least when it comes to families of presidents and their desire to be with their kin...  Read more

Rep. Jim Banks: Trump's Navy fleet plan is 'absolutely necessary'

Only three months on the job in Washington, Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., says he is ready to help out his fellow members of the U.S. armed forces, especially his naval comrades, ahead of a potential spending fight as a government shutdown looms in late April...  Read more

Schiff: Too Early To Say 'Anything Definitively' About Trump Team-Russia Collusion

The House Intelligence committee's top Democrat said Sunday that it is too early to say whether there was collusion between the Trump team and Russia, in an apparent moderation of his past claims on the subject...  Read more

Obama's 'slush fund' settlements may survive under Trump

The Justice Department is refusing to say whether it plans to divert any funds in any future settlements its is pursuing or if it instead plans formally prohibit the practice...  Read more

Trump's sanctuary city threat rests in the hands of Obama-appointed judge

This time last year, U.S. District Court Judge William Orrick was handing down an opinion on whether an endangered monkey could claim copyright over his own selfie...  Read more

GOP's agenda hits brakes after healthcare bill collapses

House Republican leaders this week will fill the floor with relatively minor legislation, including Financial Services Committee bills aimed at facilitating entrepreneurship and innovation...  Read more

James O'Keefe, LA Times agree about Planned Parenthood video prosecution

Politics can make for strange bedfellows, perhaps none stranger than the Los Angeles Times editorial board and James O'Keefe...  Read more