Rule 22 of the Senate, governing filibusters, can be changed or eliminated by a simple majority according to the US Supreme Court. So what are the Democrats waiting for?
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics
Harry Reid sealed the biggest legislative victory of his career Saturday night with a kiss. And then a hug. Emotionally reserved doesn't begin to des...
Chris Weigant | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics
Harry Reid thinks he's got enough votes, but then this is the reason why the vote keeps getting pushed back -- because he's obviously still scrambling for the final few votes before he moves ahead.
Huffington Post | Posted 11.18.2009 | Comedy
West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd became the longest-serving lawmaker in congressional history today. The Senate paid tribute, and there was some sort...
AP/Huffington Post | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — West Virginia Sen. Robert C. Byrd became the longest-serving lawmaker in congressional history Wednesday, a milestone to be marked ...
John R. Bohrer | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics
Today, Senator Robert C. Byrd broke the record of a one-time colleague as the longest-serving member of Congress in U.S. history. Let's put his long run into perspective.
Michael Markarian | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
Congress took two steps in recent days on animal issues, as part of its larger bills related to the Department of Defense and military spending.
John W. Whitehead | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics
"A democracy requires accountability, and accountability requires transparency." -President Barack Obama in a 2009 memorandum to executive departments...
Carol Felsenthal | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics
What happens if health care comes up for a vote and Byrd is simply too sick to be wheeled in?
AP | MANU RAJU | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Robert Byrd, the longest serving senator in history, was admitted to a Washington-area hospital Tuesday after a fall at his home in...
Ferentz LaFargue | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
Let us be clear that Van Jones' resignation is not a defeat for the Obama administration, but it's a defeat for anyone who believes in public service.
William Bradley | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics
We live in a moment of hyperpartisan politics and hyperactive media. These things militate against what the Kennedy eulogies celebrated.
The Hill | Alexander Bolton | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics
Sen. Judd Gregg has hundreds of procedural objections ready for a healthcare plan Democrats leaders want to speed through the Senate....
Jamie Stiehm | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics
Troubles in paradise, to be sure, yet Kennedy overcame tragedies and addressed flaws that would have broken or bent most of us.
Sen. Robert Byrd | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics
As a tribute to his commitment to his ideals, let us stop the shouting and name-calling and have a civilized debate on health care reform which I hope, when legislation has been signed into law, will bear his name for his commitment to insuring the health of every American.
The Huffington Post | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics
Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) called on Wednesday for health care reform legislation to be named after the late Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) "My heart an...
Abe Silk | Posted 08.01.2009 | Politics
Well the "Land of 10,000 Lakes" took what seemed like 10,000 years, but the Minnesota Supreme Court finally ruled yesterday in a unanimous decision to certify Al Franken's election victory.
Bill Scher | Posted 08.01.2009 | Green
Some senators are acting as if Reps. Waxman and Markey hadn't painstakingly pieced a compromise with those sympathetic to coal companies, power companies and agribusiness.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.31.2009 | Politics
Moments after former Sen. Norm Coleman conceded the drawn-out Minnesota Senate election to Al Franken, Gov. Tim Pawlenty said that that he would sign ...
AP | Posted 07.31.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Sen. Robert Byrd's office says he's been released from the hospital and is at his Washington-area home recuperating from a more-tha...
Alex Pasternack | Posted 07.19.2009 | Green
Coal companies would not exist if not for the "corruption" of politicians, Bobby Kennedy, Jr. told me, singling out "family friends of ours forever," like West Virginia Democrats Jay Rockefeller and Robert Byrd.
West Virginia Gazette | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics
Sen. Robert C. Byrd's state of health has prompted some quiet, behind-the-scenes discussions in the event the senator is unable to return to office. ...
AP | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Sen. Robert C. Byrd, 91 and the longest-serving senator in history, was hospitalized last Friday with a temperature spike evidently...
Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.11.2009 | Green
West Virginia House of Delegates Speaker Rick Thompson and a handful of House Rules Committee members have just blocked a resolution for the development of a nationally acclaimed industrial wind farm.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 04.25.2009 | Green
Eric Mathis, a scrappy young economist in the Appalachian coalfields, is putting together one of the most dynamic green jobs consortiums in the country.
Jamie Court | Posted 12.16.2009 | Politics