Jim DeMint

WASHINGTON -- The new, more Republican Congress won't arrive in town until next month, but the Tea Party Era unofficially began on the Hill Thursday night. Republican leaders in Congress, blindsided by Grassroots fury over the Tax Cut deal they …

The omnibus spending bill died in the Senate last night, and the death was a long time coming. It started to bleed in 2006, when a series of rule changes and the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act were passed, opening up the proce…

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell approached the microphones for his weekly Press Conference on Tuesday with more sense of purpose than he's had since he tried -- but failed -- to derail the Health Care law in March. His goal this time was …

It’s Christmastime in Washington. Wreaths adorn the arches of Union Station. The National Cathedral hosts “Handel’s Messiah.” A sparkling conifer stands, a quiet sentinel, on Capitol Hill throughout the night. And, of co…

A reader writes: The junior senator from the Palmetto State forgets his own state history. One hundred and fifty years ago, on Dec. 20, 1860, a gaggle of South Carolinians in convention assembled declared the state's Secession from the Union…

U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham said Friday a plan for deepening the Charleston Harbor must be worked out by spring, or the state's economy will face devastation. The Republican senator called an idea to jumpstart the project without federal money a risk…

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham said Friday a plan for deepening the Charleston Harbor must be worked out by spring, or the state's economy will face devastation. The Republican senator called an idea to jumpstart the project witho…

Sen. Jim DeMint and Jon Kyl would have you believe that its "sacrilegious" to hold so many votes around Christmas time. Not according to a number of Christian leaders, who harshly criticized the Republicans for invoking Christmas as an excuse to…