Save for laterIt’s been a long week. But as the nation watched the Senate Judiciary Committee hold a trying, emotional Supreme Court hearing, the rest of the Capitol was up to its usual foibles. Take a break from the drama with this week’s Hits and Misses, featuring George Gershwin, the Chinese Libertarian Army and a bipartisan love of National Geographic.
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Former presidential candidate Mitt Romney released a video announcing his Senate run in Utah, a dog voices support for a California congressional candidate, and another video features a rock climbing candidate on a cliff. Watch for those videos and more in this installment of 2018 election intro videos worth watching.
Sanders received the endorsement of Democracy for America, which tried to draft Sen. Elizabeth Warren to run for president (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call File Photo)
Sen. Bernard Sanders received a big boost to his campaign Thursday with the endorsements of Communications Workers of America and Democracy for America and emphasized the grassroots nature of the endorsements.
At a news conference with Sanders, Chris Shelton, president of the CWA, emphasized that the decision came directly from union members themselves after the union asked if it should endorse in the election, and if so, who should it endorse.
Warren was the only Democratic woman in the Senate not to show solidarity with Clinton. (Al Drago/CQ Roll Call)
Lee says he won't be doing hallway interviews anymore. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call File Photo)
Sen. Mike Lee is no longer taking hallway interviews. While any senator might decline to answer a particular question (sometimes it's the wrong question, the wrong reporter or the wrong time), the Utah Republican, around September, joined a small group of senators who will not take questions from reporters in between points A and B, where most members of the press buttonhole lawmakers on any topic that comes to mind.
Lee told CQ Roll Call — as part of a wide-ranging interview in his Senate office Thursday — that most questions thrown at him are generally not of the "yes" or "no" variety, and he said he felt he was often giving them short shrift.
Elizabeth Warren is rallying House Democrats to kill the cromnibus unless a provision benefiting banks is stripped.
One of the Senate's leading liberals is borrowing a page from the playbook of Texas GOP Sen. Ted Cruz.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., is pushing to strike out language from the "cromnibus" spending bill unveiled Tuesday that would roll back restrictions on "swaps" transactions included in the 2010 financial regulatory overhaul known as Dodd-Frank. Repealing the "push-out" provision would mean that certain derivatives could again be held in bank units with federal deposit insurance.
Warren and Warner are newly installed members on Senate Democrats' leadership team. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call File Photo)
A senator who voted against keeping Harry Reid as the Democratic leader is getting a seat at the leadership table.
Democratic Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia is taking on the role of policy development advisor at the Democratic Policy and Communications Center. He joins a leadership team that previously expanded in number with the addition of progressive heroine Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts.
