Michael Schaffer is a senior editor and columnist at POLITICO Magazine. He has covered national and local politics for over ...

What’s most important to remember about the monstrous “big beautiful” bill ginned up by Trump’s Reichstag is that Republicans are just being themselves. They’ve always pined to fatten the fat cats ...

Only one: amend the Constitution. Congress has tried. In 2003, Senator Orrin Hatch proposed the “Equal Opportunity to Govern Amendment” to let naturalised citizens run. It failed. Every such attempt ...

It started with a post about straws. A shared dislike for the ones made out of paper caught the eye of one of the ...

Pennsylvania’s U.S. senators met in Boston on Monday for what was billed as a “vigorous” debate, but what actually occurred was the sort of bipartisan collegiality rarely seen anymore.

While both men at times admitted they had or would again in the future find themselves at odds politically, over the course of the about 30-minute back and forth both found plenty of reasons to ...

Orrin Hatch was a giant of the Senate and a pillar in Utah. His more than four decades of public service made him the longest-serving U.S. senator from our state, but that only tells a small ...

The late Sen. Orrin Hatch, one of Utah's most influential political figures, was remembered at a Salt Lake City service and laid to rest in Newton on Friday, May 6.

Family, friends and colleagues celebrated the life of Sen. Orrin Hatch on Friday, reflecting on his legacy of public service, dedication to family, love of people and devotion to God.

The Utah Army National Guard performs military honors for the late Sen. Orrin Hatch following his funeral services on Friday, May 6, 2022 at the Institute of Religion of The Church of Jesus Christ ...

Postcript Orrin Hatch’s Finest Hour In all his 42 years in the Senate, Orrin Hatch’s greatest achievement was his last-minute rescue of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.

Here's why Orrin Hatch will lie in state in Utah, not D.C. All of the memorial services for the longtime senator, who died at the age of 88, will take place in Utah – not Washington, D.C.