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April 16, 2015

International Organizations
Senator Rubio and U.S. “Leadership”: Three Questions for the Candidate

The decision by Marco Rubio to seek the Republican presidential nomination is audacious. But it would be a mistake to underestimate the first-term senator from Florida. As the current occupant of the…

U.S. Senator Marco Rubio announces his 2016 presidential campaign at the Freedom Tower in Miami, Florida, on April 13, 2015.
Blog Post by Stewart M. Patrick The Internationalist

December 15, 2010

Politics and Government
Senator Kyl’s Line in the Sand

Just as the prospects for the New START Treaty started to look good, they no longer do.  Josh Rogin reports that Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) just drew a line in the sand: Kyl said Tuesday he still does…

Senator Kyl’s Line in the Sand
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

May 9, 2012

Trade
Morning Brief: House and Senate Debate Transportation

Fourteen senators and 33 representatives began meeting yesterday to attempt to hammer out a compromise between two versions of the transportation spending bill (Reuters). Politico discusses the major…

A highway construction worker is engulfed in a cloud of dust as he works in Royse City, Texas in July 2011. (Mike Stone/Courtesy Reuters)
Blog Post by Renewing America Staff Renewing America

April 11, 2014

The Senate Torture Report and Investigative Journalism

Today, Sen. Diane Feinstein and Sen. Jay Rockefeller, the chair and former chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), published an op-ed in the Washington Post, “Why the Senate Repo…

Blog Post by Micah Zenko Politics, Power, and Preventive Action

April 17, 2012

Trade
Morning Brief: Senate Stalls Buffett Rule

The Senate failed to muster the sixty votes necessary to advance the debate on the proposed “Buffett Rule” (TheHill). The mostly party line 51-45 vote comes after the Obama administration stepped up …

President Obama awards the Medal of Freedom to Warren Buffet at a White House ceremony on February 15, 2011. (Larry Downing/Courtesy Reuters)
Blog Post by Renewing America Staff Renewing America