Ryan Lovelace

Agreement to delay government shutdown is on shaky ground

An agreement on stopgap spending legislation to keep the government running until Dec. 20 is far from guaranteed.

November 13, 2019

Moderate Republicans focus on 2022 elections

A group of moderate Republicans is beginning to build a "farm team" to help the GOP recapture the House from Democrats in 2022.

November 12, 2019

McConnell says Democrats’ impeachment priorities harming American position on world stage

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell slammed House Democrats' prioritization of impeaching President Trump over other policy priorities of appropriations and trade agreements.

November 12, 2019

Moderate Republicans building ‘farm team’ to recapture House in 2022

The Republican Main Street Partnership is beginning to build a "farm team" to help the GOP recapture the House from Democrats come 2022.

November 11, 2019

Rudy Giuliani, Republicans target Adam Schiff bias in impeachment probe

President Trump's defenders are preparing to make war against House Democrats' tightly controlled public hearings on impeachment this week, the rules of which give impeachment ringmaster Rep. Adam B. Schiff, California Democrat, a distinct advantage over the White House.

November 10, 2019

Clarence Thomas blasts Joe Biden in documentary ‘Created Equal: Clarence Thomas In His Own Words’

Justice Clarence Thomas scoffed at 2020 Democratic front-runner former Vice President Joseph R. Biden recalling his confirmation hearing nearly three decades ago, suggesting Mr. Biden didn't have a grasp of the law and was just playing politics.

November 10, 2019

Conservatives aim to convert convicts at ‘Prison CPAC’

The Conservative Political Action Conference went to prison -- and found a receptive audience among the locked-up murderers, robbers and drug dealers there.

November 9, 2019

Pacronym, liberal group, seeks Trump social media secret

Liberal advocacy groups are forming new digital advertising campaigns to catch up to President Trump's online advantage, but the Republican Party says its team is "lapping the field with our digital efforts."

November 7, 2019

Marco Rubio wants to replace U.S. economic system with ‘common-good capitalism’ to fight China

Sen. Marco Rubio on Tuesday argued for scrapping America's economic order in favor of a "common-good capitalism" in order to effectively compete with a rising China.

November 5, 2019

Schumer blasts ‘shifting sands’ of Republican arguments against impeachment

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer blasted Republicans' opposition to House Democrats' impeachment inquiry into President Trump on Tuesday as evidence of the constantly "shifting sands" of their arguments that the New York Democrat labeled wrong and absurd.

November 5, 2019

McConnell says spending fight won’t stop Senate from confirming judges

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that Congress' impasse on spending will not stop the Senate from confirming President Trump's judicial nominees.

November 5, 2019

Media Matters to fly plane over Facebook office with message criticizing openness to conservatives

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's leftist opponents are working to make sure there is nowhere he can look without seeing their criticism.

November 4, 2019

Leading Islamic critic of Facebook to meet with CEO Mark Zuckerberg

An Islamic left-leaning advocacy group that has called for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's ousting is dining with him Monday night to discuss the company's alleged "anti-Muslim problem."

November 4, 2019

Club for Growth takes aim at vulnerable House Democrats in impeachment ads

A leading free-market advocacy group that was once skeptical of President Trump is now all-in defending him against House Democrats' impeachment inquiry, using the probe as a political weapon to target the party's vulnerable congressional candidates and boost its picks of Republican economic conservatives.

November 3, 2019

Lindsey Graham to give Judiciary Committee chairmanship back to Chuck Grassley in 2021

Sen. Lindsey Graham is preparing to relinquish his chairmanship of the Judiciary Committee to Sen. Charles E. Grassley in the next Congress, beginning in 2021.

October 31, 2019

Senate spending impasse sets up shutdown fight

The Senate voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to pass appropriations for several federal agencies but remained gridlocked on a more contentious spending bill, setting up a government shutdown fight with the specter of an impeachment trial looming.

October 31, 2019

Chuck Schumer decries ‘show votes’ on spending package pushed by Republicans

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer said Thursday the upcoming votes on appropriations bills are "show votes" that would take money from military service members to pay for a border wall.

October 31, 2019

Mitch McConnell: Dems’ resistance to spending package ‘political gymnastics at an Olympic level’

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday that Democrats were performing "political gymnastics at an Olympic level" in there expected effort to resist funding for the Department of Defense.

October 31, 2019

Jack Dorsey: Twitter dropping political ads

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said Wednesday that the platform will no longer run political ads anywhere in the world, saying that such ads risk influencing votes and a belief that "political message reach should be earned, not bought."

October 30, 2019

Senate Democrats fail in vote to reverse Trump administration’s guidance to curb Obamacare

Senate Democrats have taken three swings at undermining President Trump's agenda this month -- on climate, on tax reform, and on health care -- and have missed each time.

October 30, 2019