The GOP’s post-election finger-pointing intensified Tuesday, with two senators calling for an audit of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. During a tense, three-hour-long meeting of the Senate GOP Conference, Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) said there should

A bipartisan Senate deal to enshrine same-sex marriage protections into federal law has convinced at least one holdout: Sen. Mitt Romney. “If it includes important protections for religions and religious institutions, I will support it,” the Utah Republican told POLITICO

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In the wake of House Democrats' shockingly strong midterms, some of them are mulling another earth-shattering scenario: Speaker Nancy Pelosi could decide to stay after all. That outcome is far from assured, and Democrats widely acknowledge that no one other

House Republicans will meet on Tuesday to tap the leaders of the majority they're one vote from officially claiming, their most crucial decisions before the full chamber picks its speaker on Jan. 3. In a closed conference meeting with secret