US Senate

Most recent

• Early midterms voters cast their ballots as races heat up down south

  22 Oct 2014: More than 3.5m votes have already been cast as debates get spicy in Florida and North Carolina. Here’s the state of the race

• The truth about torture is Obama never wants you to find it

  22 Oct 2014: Trevor Timm: If America is so opposed to Bush-era atrocities, why does it keep covering up the evidence to protect the CIA?

• Cruz attacks White House on Ebola as Pentagon forms medical support team

  19 Oct 2014: Senator demands travel bans and extra border guards but Obama and senior officials seek to avoid public hysteria

• Hillary Clinton was right: it takes more than one woman to break the glass ceiling

  16 Oct 2014: Megan Carpentier: The point of female candidates isn’t to win over female voters. It’s to get people elected who don’t see politics exactly the same way as every other politician

• Obama to nominate Vanita Gupta to head DoJ civil rights division

  16 Oct 2014: Praised by the left and the right, ACLU advocate for drug law reform will be thrown into thick of volatile issues such as police behaviour and voting rights

• With so many issues off the agenda, no wonder the midterms are a turn-off

  16 Oct 2014: Elections offer little chance of change as Republicans and Democrats steer clear of hot-button topics for party advantage
  

• Democratic committee to halt ads in heated Kentucky Senate race

  14 Oct 2014: Troublesome sign for Democratic challenger Alison Lundergran Grimes in her race to unseat Republican leader Mitch McConnell

• Jimmy Carter campaigns again – to get grandson elected as Georgia governor

  13 Oct 2014: Ex-US president praises Jason Carter’s fight for voter rights as Democrats expect tight race against incumbent Nathan Deal

• Kansas Democrats may stymie GOP with obscure name on Senate ballot

  19 Sep 2014: After state supreme court allows Democrat off ballot and boosts third-party candidate, parties suspect skulduggery in unusual Senate race

• US Senate passes bill to authorise arms and training for Syrian rebels

  18 Sep 2014: Although Senator Rand Paul volubly opposed the bill, spending legislation passed 78 to 22 with bipartisan support

• Kansas court decision lets Democrat off Senate ballot despite GOP efforts

  18 Sep 2014: Democrat Chad Taylor withdraws name from ballot after decision that could affect which party controls the Senate

• CIA chief: 'If I've done something wrong, I'll stand up and admit it'

  18 Sep 2014: John Brennan expresses frustration with Senate and media while decrying lack of trust in agency at intelligence conference

• Rand Paul criticises proposal to arm Syrian rebels during Senate debate – as it happened

  18 Sep 2014: US senator Rand Paul takes to the floor to debate bill

• House of Representatives approves Obama plan to arm Syrian rebels

  17 Sep 2014: Vote passes 273-156 as Obama seeks to reassure lawmakers and Americans who fear the US will be drawn into a ground war

• American Ebola victim pleads swift global response to Ebola outbreak before House panel – as it happened

  17 Sep 2014: Dr Kent Brantly, who contracted the virus when he was working in Liberia, to give testimony to House foreign affairs subcommittee. Follow it live here

• Next
• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5

1-15 of 969 for US Senate