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Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, a candidate for president, said he would be open to a national ban on TikTok if he wins the White House.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) played his unfortunate "freeze" episode for laughs on Wednesday.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) reportedly tripped and fell when disembarking from a plane earlier this month.

Mitch McConnell inexplicably froze up during a Senate GOP leadership press conference Wednesday afternoon.

US Senators hope to provide the Commerce Department the ability to ban TikTok with a carefully worded bill.

Former President Donald Trump is losing support among Congressional Republicans following his criminal referral by the Jan. 6 House Committee Monday.

Biden’s IRS army of 87,000 new armed recruits is coming under fire by the Republican party. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Jon Thune (R-SD) are working on a bill that would require Congress to approve IRS spending. Both men also sit on the House-Senate Joint Committee on Taxation. Biden would like to spend $80

Senate Republicans want to slam the brakes on the IRS' ability to spend $80 billion over the next decade to boost its staff and potentially tighten tax enforcement.

Many urging the biden administration to finally take a stand, republican senator jon thune thanked the white house has proven it can get involved in legislative priorities when it wants to so i hope the president and his team step up and provide much-needed long-overdue leadership on this front. joining us now, colorado congressman tim buck member of the house judiciary committee, your committee has been looking at this for a long time, you say the next six months are critical, why? >> they are,...

They are not giving either way. were going to see how that develops over the next several weeks. in the meantime, things are incredibly tense around here. yesterday was very high stakes for members of both parties. but it was really kind of this culmination when we saw chuck schumer giving his speech right after ten republicans cross ed over to allow them to go forward to lift this debt ceiling. heres parking lot of his speech. take a listen. >> leader mcconnell and senate republicans insisted t...