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The Senate loves Taylor Swift

John Fea   |  January 24, 2023

During today’s the bipartisan Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on Ticketmaster, several United Senate senators quoted Taylor Swift lyrics: Watch:...

Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey has prostate cancer. Expects a ‘full recovery.”

John Fea   |  January 5, 2023

Here is J.D. Prose at Penn Live: U.S. Sen. Bob Casey revealed on Thursday that he has prostate cancer and will face surgery “in the coming months.” “While this news came as a shock, I can report that I have...

Does Krysten Sinema want another term in the U.S. Senate?

John Fea   |  December 9, 2022

Krysten Sinema left the Democratic Party today. She registered as an Independent. Watch: I applaud Sinema’s independence. But from a political perspective, this looks likes suicide. If she runs again in 2024 as an Independent, the non-GOP vote (we can...

Is it better to be a vampire or a werewolf?

John Fea   |  December 6, 2022

Obama!...

Can the Democrats hold the Senate?

John Fea   |  November 12, 2022

Yes. And it looks like they will. Last night the major networks called the Arizona senate race for Mark Kelly. At this moment, the Democrats and the Republicans each hold 49 seats in the U.S. Senate. Two seats have yet...

Senate passes bipartisan gun bill

John Fea   |  June 24, 2022

Here is NBC News: The Senate on Thursday night passed the most sweeping gun bill designed to prevent gun violence in decades, a major victory for advocates and a rare defeat for the National Rifle Association. The vote was 65 to 33, with all...

Senators agree on bipartisan gun safety

John Fea   |  June 12, 2022

A step in the right direction. Here is a Politico: A group of 20 senators struck a bipartisan gun safety framework on Sunday, marking a significant breakthrough in Congress’ attempts to address recent back-to-back mass shootings. In a Sunday morning...

The power of a Trump endorsement in Ohio

John Fea   |  May 6, 2022

If you read one thing to get up to speed on the J.D. Vance’s win in the Ohio GOP primary for U.S. Senate, I recommend Alex Shephard’s short piece at The New Republic. A taste: In a seven-person race full...

George Will: “Amend the Constitution to bar senators from the presidency”

John Fea   |  April 28, 2022

Will offers a stinging critique of GOP Senators who appear to be using their Senate seats to run for president. Here is a taste: In Jonathan Haidt’s recent essay for the Atlantic, “Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been...

New poll: Fetterman and Oz lead Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate primary races

John Fea   |  April 14, 2022

Source. The primary elections are May 17, 2022....

Trump endorses Dr. Oz in Pennsylvania U.S. Senate race

John Fea   |  April 10, 2022

Donald Trump just endorsed Mehmet Oz’s candidacy for the Pennsylvania U.S. Senate seat currently held by Pat Toomey. Here is Trip Gabriel at The New York Times: Wading into a tight Republican Senate primary in Pennsylvania, former President Donald J....

What Ted Cruz doesn’t know about Georgetown Day School (and critical race theory)

John Fea   |  March 23, 2022

Watch Ted Cruz grill Supreme Court justice nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson on critical race theory: Just for the record, critical race theory does not teach, as Cruz claims, that all of life is explained best by the clash of the...

Pennsylvania’s GOP Senate primary race is getting ugly

John Fea   |  March 19, 2022

The two leading GOP candidates for retiring Pat Toomey’s U.S. Senate seat are David McCormick and Mehmet Oz. McCormick is a hedge fund CEO who was Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs during the George W. Bush administration....

A database of the 1,715 members of Congress who owned slaves

John Fea   |  January 18, 2022

The Washington Post has published a database of American enslavers. It includes some familiar names: Thomas Hart Benton, John C. Breckinridge, Preston Brooks, Aaron Burr, Pierce Butler, John C. Calhoun, Charles Carroll, Henry Clay, De Witt Clinton, Davy Crockett, Jefferson...

U.S. Senators on the Senate Health Committee who seem to care less about public health

John Fea   |  January 12, 2022

In case you didn’t see it, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country’s top infectious disease official, testified yesterday before a Senate health committee hearing. Here is his exchange with Kentucky Senator Rand Paul: Here is Fauci last night on CNN: Here...

The Democratic race for Pat Toomey’s Senate seat reveals the divisions in the party

John Fea   |  December 8, 2021

The frontrunner is Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman. His top challenger is western Pennsylvania congressman Conor Lamb. Here is Holly Otterbein at Politico: One candidate promises he won’t be a centrist Democratic senator like Joe Manchin or Kyrsten Sinema. Another...

Dr. Oz is running for a U.S. Senate seat. He’s been there before.

John Fea   |  December 3, 2021

Oz is running for Pat Toomey’s Pennsylvania Senate seat. Get up to speed here. But as Ian Ward reminds us at Politico, he has been there before. Here’s a taste: On a hot summer morning in June of 2014, Mehmet...

Dr. Oz joins the Pennsylvania Senate race

John Fea   |  December 1, 2021

Sean Parnell is out. Dr. Mehmet Oz is in. Here is The Washington Post: Mehmet Oz, who rose to fame as “Dr. Oz” on “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” said Tuesday he is launching a Republican campaign for Senate in Pennsylvania,...

Is Sean Parnell’s Senate campaign over?

John Fea   |  November 22, 2021

Pennsylvania Republicans are having a hard time finding someone to run against Conor Lamb or John Fetterman for Pat Toomey’s U.S. Senate seat. Now a judge has decided that GOP frontrunner Sean Parnell‘s kids can only visit him three weekends...

Is Dr. Oz the answer for Pennsylvania Republicans?

John Fea   |  November 19, 2021

The Senate seat currently held by Pat Toomey is up for grabs in 2022 (Toomey is not running for reelection). Pennsylvania Republicans are looking for a candidate that can win next year. The GOP frontrunner right now is Sean Parnell,...

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