Ethics watchdogs are raising concerns about lawmakers who remain in Congress after accepting a new job, highlighting the lack of transparency of congressional ethics rules currently on the books when it comes to alternative employment opportunities and job negotiations.
A 10-month blockade on the promotions of hundreds of military officers came to a formal end Tuesday after the Senate confirmed nearly a dozen four-star generals.
The declining situation at the U.S.-Mexico border looms over negotiations over a supplemental funding bill in the Senate that has already been stalled for two months.
Senate Republicans distanced themselves from the nativist rhetoric of Donald Trump on Monday after the former president said immigrants are "poisoning the blood" of the United States.