Senate

The weeks of rallies, Hunger Strikes and sit-ins and the thousands of phone calls placed to Senate offices didn’t pay off for Immigration Activists. The decade-old DREAM Act once again failed to break a Filibuster in the Senate on Saturda…

With just a signature from President Obama, a ban on Openly Gay servicemembers will no longer be the law of the land. By a vote of 65 to 31 this afternoon, the Senate voted to Repeal the Military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy. Republican Senato…

The Senate on Saturday cleared a crucial hurdle in repealing the Controversial 17-year-old ‘don’t ask, don’t tell” ban on gays serving openly in the Military, all but ensuring the Repeal will become law. The procedural Clo…

Another day, another waste of time by desperate Democrats in the lame-duck session: Senate Republicans have blocked a bill to grant hundreds of thousands of Illegal Immigrants brought to the United States as Children a chance to gain legal statu…

Carrie Dann writes: A measure that would have offered provisional legal status to some adults who came to America illegally as Children failed to advance in a Senate vote Saturday. Democratic backers of the Legislation fell short of the 60 votes t…

The DREAM Act Cloture vote just failed in the Senate, 55 to 41. The Cloture vote was on the version of DREAM that passed the House earlier this month. Among Republicans, only Sens. Bob Bennett of Utah, Richard Lugar of Indiana, and Lisa Murkowski …

Markos Moulitsas, the influential founder of the lefty website DailyKos, used to love Montana Democratic Sen. Jon Tester. Starting back in December 2004, when Moulitsas first praised Tester, then a farmer-turned-state-legislator, as a Democrat who…