Republicans: No Secret Meetings

GOP pols urging leadership to conduct budget negotiations in public
Jeff Sessions / AP

Republicans understand that their political leverage is significantly diminished following their electoral drubbing earlier this month, but some fear that the secretive, high-level nature of negotiations underway risks further undermining the GOP position.

3.5 Years: Zero Budgets

Senate Dems haven't approved a budget resolution since April 29, 2009
Harry Reid / AP

October 29, 2012 marks another mournful milestone for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and his Democratic colleagues. Today is exactly three and a half years from the last time Senate Democrats passed a formal budget resolution, as required by law.

Grasping for ‘Accomplishments’

Dem report listing Senate’s achievements contains falsehoods, omissions, distortions, etc.
Harry Reid, Charles Schumer / AP

A report from the Democratic Policy and Communications Center that lists the Democratic Senate majority’s “Accomplishments in the 112th Congress” contains distortions, exaggerations, omissions, and falsehoods.

The Real Elizabeth Warren

Five Extreme Things the Professor Won’t Mention in Her DNC Speech
Elizabeth Warren / AP

Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren has a number of skeletons in her closet, including close links to radical left-wing pressure groups and a record of helping corporate interests suppress asbestos liability lawsuits.

Harry Reid to the Rescue

Political action committee aligned with Senate majority leader leaps to Democratic senate candidate Rep. Shelley Berkley’s defense
Rep. Shelley Berkley / AP

A secretive political action committee founded to help Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D, Nev.) in his tough 2010 reelection campaign is running attack ads against the Republican opponent of Democratic Senate candidate Shelley Berkley.

McCaskill: The Senate passed a budget last August

'This is Fox News and a talking point by the political right that we haven’t passed a budget'

Sen. Claire McCaskill claims the Senate passed a budget last year, and calls statements to the contrary a “talking point by the political right,” in a video interview with the Quincy Journal, posted Monday.