Sen. Richard Blumenthal

Democrat senators are pushing legislation to ban “ghost guns” as sales of traditional, non-“ghost gun” firearms are setting records. 

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) is pushing a ban on commonly owned semiautomatic rifles and “high capacity” magazines.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) recently spoke to students at Manchester High School in Manchester, Connecticut, criticizing President Donald Trump. 

As the Senate hearings with Christine Blasey Ford were airing, the NRA tweeted a video rejecting the “smear” campaign against Brett Kavanaugh and reaffirming their commitment to seeing him confirmed.

A group of Democrat senators have written a letter probing the resignation of White House Staff Secretary Rob Porter amid allegations of domestic abuse.

Sens. John Cornyn, Chris Murphy, and Dianne Feinstein announced a new gun control bill which centers on background checks for gun purchases.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal says when the government completely takes over health care, all women in America will be able to abort their babies at any time during pregnancy and at taxpayers’ expense.

Missing from much of the news media coverage over FBI Director James Comey’s testimony last week that long-time top Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin regularly forwarded classified emails to her husband, Anthony Weiner, is that the revelation directly contradicts Abedin’s own claims from last November about how the emails famously made it to Weiner’s laptop computer.

Every few years, the botanical garden down on the National Mall proudly boasts its prized “corpse flower.” In years when our federal swamp gets hot and icky enough, the foul-smelling plant turns a throbbing purple and blooms.

The Democratic Connecticut senator who once law clerked for Justice Harry A. Blackmun, the author of the Roe v. Wade decision, told Breitbart News GOP senators will not change the rules to confirm Judge Neil McGill Gorsuch on the Supreme Court.

Capitol Hill conservatives allowed Democrats to strip the “Russell Amendment” out of the Pentagon’s fiscal year 2017 budget during conference negotiations after Vice-President Michael R. Pence and other members of the presidential transition team assured them that the incoming administration will restore protections for religion and conscience stripped by President Barack Obama.

Barack Obama is threatening to veto the NDAA over the Russell Amendment, a measure that simply restates what is currently law in the United States because of the First Amendment.

Three bipartisan U.S. senators, including Texas senator John Cornyn, have introduced the Remedies for Refusal of Repatriation Act. “Casey’s Law” is named for a young woman who was murdered by a Haitian criminal illegal alien. He was in the country because he had not been deported after he was released from prison.

Senate Republicans, led by Sen. Susan Collins (R.-Maine), worked Monday night with Democrats, such as Sen. Chris Murphy (D.- Conn.), to fashion a compromise to give Democrats the No-Fly-No-Buy legislation they have been demanding in their political response to the June 12 spree-shooting in an Orlando, Florida gay nightclub.

U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) – rated as one of the most liberal senators in that chamber – said he hopes President Obama will promptly nominate someone to replace Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who died suddenly on Saturday.

In a recent op-ed in the Hartford Courant, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) defended Planned Parenthood amid the stream of gruesome investigative videos in which top medical personnel of the abortion giant are shown discussing how to harvest the body parts of aborted babies for potential sale to biomedical companies.

According to a new Gallup survey, Connecticut dropped below every other state in the nation in job creation in 2014, with workers there reporting the worst climate for hiring.