by Jim Heath | Mar 25, 2019 | 2020, Battlegrounds, Headlines
Rep. Ruben Gallego handed a huge gift to Arizona’s Mark Kelly today, announcing he is not seeking the Democratic nomination for U.S. senate next year. Gallego is well-connected to the liberal base of the Democratic Party, and many activists hoped the Phoenix...
by Jim Heath | Mar 14, 2019 | Headlines, Immigration
The Senate today easily voted to overturn President Trump’s declaration of a national emergency at the southwestern border, delivering a bipartisan rebuke to what lawmakers in both parties deemed executive overreach by a president determined to build his border wall...
by Jim Heath | Feb 12, 2019 | 2020, Democrats, Headlines
Mark Kelly, an American astronaut and husband of former Rep. Gabby Giffords, is running for US Senate in Arizona in 2020. Kelly announced today that he would seek the late John McCain’s seat, which Sen. Martha McSally was appointed to last year after losing her Senate...
by Jim Heath | Dec 14, 2018 | Congress, Headlines, Republicans
U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl will resign from the U.S. Senate on December 31st, setting up a second appointment by Gov. Doug Ducey to the seat once occupied by the late John McCain. Ducey is required under law to name another Republican to the seat. A replacement to the Senate...
by Jim Heath | Dec 13, 2018 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines
President Trump doesn’t have a complete grip on members of his own party in the senate after they delivered back-to-back rebukes of his embrace of Saudi Arabia. The senate first voted to end U.S. participation in the Saudi-led war in Yemen, and then unanimously...
