Senate
Recent updates have been revealed with regard to the upcoming Presidential Election 2016 where Republican Texan Senator Ted Cruz officially declared his candidacy to become America's head of all states.
As lobbying for immigration reform intensified this week, three House Republicans signed onto the House Democrats' immigration reform bill.
The government reopened today after a 16-day shutdown after a bill was passed late Wednesday that funds the government through January. Republicans hardly won any concessions, and are now trying to figure how to come back after their major defeat.
On Thursday, the Democratic National Committee launched a campaign to make Spanish calls to Latino voters that criticize Republicans for their role in the government shutdown.
Senators Rand Paul (R-Ky) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) were caught talking about the Republican strategy during the shutdown on a hot mic. Some senior GOP members take issue with the Republican intransigence and the government shutdown.
The Senate on Saturday narrowly passed its first federal budget in four years, a move that will usher in a relative lull in Washington's fiscal wars until an anticipated summer showdown over raising the debt ceiling.
For roughly 13-hours Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul spoke on the Senate floor in a filibuster attempt to block the vote on John Brennan's nomination as the new director of the CIA.
Things could be getting much more complicated for European Union officials struggling to recover from the financial crisis as one of the political union's largest member states is in the middle of a tight election with early polls showing a split government.
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper announced during a Tuesday Senate hearing that he has drank fracking fluid and that it wasn't bad at all, the Denver Post reports.
