Harry Reid

"I owe him big. Boy he made my book sell a lot better," Koch said to laughs. (AP)

Charles Koch thanks Harry Reid for boosting book sales

Pete Kasperowicz · June 25, 2017 8:39 pm

Whereas Democrats once castigated former FBI Director James Comey for his perceived influencing of the 2016 presidential election in Donald Trump's favor, they are now willing to use his testimony to guide their view of the president. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, left, and Susan Walsh, File)

James Comey goes from zero to hero with Democrats

W. James Antle III · June 8, 2017 4:01 am

If we don't get a change on appropriations soon, then we're probably going to get the nuclear option for appropriations bills before long. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Beltway Confidential

Nuclear option for appropriations bills? It’s probably only a matter of time

David Freddoso · April 24, 2017 7:41 pm

Editorial cartoons

Editorial cartoon: The nuclear option

Washington Examiner · April 11, 2017 8:00 pm

Mitch McConnell on Friday merely cleared away some of the rubble of destruction they left in their wake. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Reid killed rules, Gorsuch can help save laws

Washington Examiner · April 7, 2017 4:01 am

The Republicans have now lost the moral high ground. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Beltway Confidential

By choosing to play the ‘nuclear option’ war game, Senate Republicans and everyone else lost

Charles Sauer · April 6, 2017 8:59 pm

The opening shots in the judicial wars can be traced to shortly after Antonin Scalia's confirmation in 1986. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

How the Senate got to the brink of using the nuclear option on Supreme Court nominees

Ryan Lovelace · April 6, 2017 4:01 am

Nearly every outrage in the judicial wars of the past two decades has been perpetrated by Democrats, and mostly Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and his predecessor. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

The house — er, Senate — that Chuck Schumer built

Washington Examiner · April 4, 2017 4:01 am

Former Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., was on the verge of retirement when this happened. And he was one of only three Democrats who voted against the nuclear option. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Beltway Confidential

Sen. Levin warned: ‘Nuclear’ rule changes will be used again and again

David Freddoso · April 3, 2017 7:36 pm

As Casey Stengel, while managing the New York Mets on their way to a 40-120 season in 1962, reportedly asked, "Can't anybody here play this game?" (AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler, File)

Doesn’t anybody know how to play this game?

Michael Barone · March 30, 2017 4:42 am

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is leading a filibuster against Judge Neil Gorsuch's nomination to the Supreme Court arguing that Gorsuch should reach a 60-vote threshold. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Schumer in 2013 said Dems believe in ‘up-or-down’ votes, not ‘obstruction’

Susan Crabtree · March 29, 2017 5:18 pm

Senate Democrats got into several testy exchanges with Judge Neil Gorsuch during Tuesday's 11-hour hearing. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Democrats weigh all-out war against Trump’s Supreme Court pick Neil Gorsuch

W. James Antle III · March 22, 2017 4:01 am