The Wall Street Journal: Manchin rules out weakening the Senate filibuster

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said that he is ready to move ahead with a Senate power-sharing agreement after two Democratic senators said they won’t support ending the legislative filibuster, a central sticking point for the GOP in the talks......»»

The Senate voted Wednesday to reinstate Obama-era open-internet rules, handing a symbolic defeat to the Trump administration over its efforts to roll back those regulations......»»

The Senate’s nonpartisan parliamentarian Monday ruled in favor of a Democra.....»»

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) says he expects to start the impeachment trial for President Trump next Tuesday, after an expected House vote Wednesday to name impeachment managers and send over the articles......»»

Trump said after the strike that killed Soleimani that he’d been under pressure from Senate Republicans he views as important supporters in his impeachment trial, according to associates......»»

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Monday to definitively say that he wouldn’t run for the Senate in Kansas this year, according to a person close to Pompeo......»»

Aviation regulators want virtually all drones to be remotely identified and tracked in U.S. airspace within three years, under proposed rules that aim to balance law-enforcement and safety concerns with industry interest in an array of commercial uses......»»

China is set to lower tariffs on some imported products from the beginning of 2020, said the state-run Xinhua News Agency on Monday, in a bid to expand imports amid weakening domestic demand......»»

Gov. Brian Kemp and Atlanta businesswoman Kelly Loeffler met secretly with President Trump in the White House Sunday over who Kemp will appoint to take Johnny Isakson Senate seat, The Wall Street Journal reports. Kemp wants to name Loeffler, co-owner.....»»

Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp is resisting pressure from President Trump on who to appoint to an interim U.S. Senate post, according to people familiar with the selection process, The Wall Street Journal reports. In recent days, the president has .....»»

The Justice Department is moving to terminate legal rules that have governed the movie industry since the late 1940s, a step that could shake up how movies are distributed and the terms on which they hit the big screen......»»

Facebook Inc. plans to exempt opinion pieces and satire from its fact-checking program, according to people familiar with the matter, as the social-media giant grapples with how to stop the spread of falsehoods while maintaining its own neutrality......»»

Republicans voting for the measure said they were defending Congress’s prerogative to decide how the government spends taxpayer dollars......»»

A two-year agreement to raise federal spending and at the same time lift the government’s borrowing limit will go to the president’s desk after it passed the Senate with more Democrats voting for it than Republicans......»»

Some Republicans fear his divisive candidacy could cost the party an otherwise solid seat......»»

House Democrats on Thursday accepted a Senate border bill, ending an effort to amend the measure as left-wing Democrats objected......»»

Senate Republicans threatened Tuesday to block the White House’s planned tariffs on Mexico, hours after President Donald Trump signaled he was prepared to move ahead with the levies barring a last-minute deal over border security......»»

Donald Trump Jr. and the Senate Intelligence Committee h.....»»

Payday lenders have been mobilizing their customers to push the federal government to ease Obama-era regulations of the industry, according to research by a consumer advocacy group that favors the rules......»»

Sen. Mike Enzi (R., Wyo.) said Saturday that he wouldn’t run for re-election in 2020, the latest Senate Republican to announce he would retire rather than seek to keep his seat......»»