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Austin Davis, Mikie Sherrill, and other regional Democrats have joined a national effort to 'break with party orthodoxy' and ...
Majority Democrats, a new group of elected officials from all levels of government, has outsized ambitions to challenge ...
The early lines of division between the parties during Joe Biden’s presidency point toward rising confrontation, sooner rather than later, over rules and traditions in the Senate that empower ...
Majority parties have both the luxury and the burden of power. To govern is to make policy choices, and choosing A over B will always disappoint the backers of B.
Then, as now, the party with the House majority was the Republican Party. Both times, the party's nominee for speaker was someone who had been in the job or in line for the job for several years.
Ordinarily the Senate’s majority party – unless it holds at least 60 seats – would need to negotiate with the minority party to break a filibuster; but a reconciliation bill cannot be ...