Three-term Republican U.S. Senator Olympia Snowe of Maine today announced her support of same-sex marriage. Snowe, who retired last year, was seen as a bridge-builder between...
Tomorrow’s vote on “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal — actually a “cloture” vote to end debate on the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) — is under...
With six you get eggroll, and with Republican Senators Brown, Snowe, Collins, and Murkowski you get sixty-one votes to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” That doesn’t...
Well, isn't this special?
Maine moderate three-term Republican Senator Olympia Snowe has just announced she will retire at the end of her term, and not seek re-election, citing “an atmosphere...
It’s not only liberals and progressives and Democrats and lesbians and gays who love Rachel Maddow — apparently, Buzzfeed says, Conservatives love Maddow too. While I’m...
Senator Marco Rubio, the Republican rumored possible running mate for presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney today voted against the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), which has...
Today President Obama delivered the commencement address at Barnard College, and, along with Evan Wolfson, the founder of Freedom To Marry, received the Barnard College Medal of Distinction. Below is...
Complete list of all senators and how they voted on the debt ceiling and deficit reduction bill, S. 365, which pased the Senate by a vote...
GOP Senators today banded together today in a concerted but failed attempt to kill the federal judgeship nomination of Alison Nathan, a lesbian jurist whose law...
The Senate has just killed the House’s Paul Ryan budget plan, by a vote of 57-40, just one day after a Democrat won a Republican stronghold...
The GOP attempt to defund Planned Parenthood failed in the Senate tonight by a vote of 58-42. The defunding of “Obamacare” met a similar fate, failing...
With tax cuts, unemployment benefits, the START treaty, the DREAM Act, a Ground Zero workers’ health care bill, continued funding of government operations, not to mention...
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, in another surprise juggling act with the lame duck calendar, late Thursday pulled the highly-controversial $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill and invoked...
This morning’s exciting news, that Senator Scott Brown (R-MA) joined the ranks of Republican Senators Snowe, Collins, and Murkowski to support repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t...