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December 15, 2014

United States
The Senate Torture Report’s Global Ramifications

The executive summary of the report released this week by the Senate Intelligence Committee on the Central Intelligence Agency’s brutal detention interrogation practices after 9/11 offers the most da…

us embassy london

March 17, 2016

Cuba
Senator Menendez Speaks About the Obama Visit to Cuba

On Thursday, Sen. Robert Menendez (D, NJ) delivered a long and heartfelt statement on the floor of the United States Senate about Pres. Obama’s  forthcoming visit to Cuba. The entire text is copied b…

April 16, 2015

International Organizations
Senator Rubio and U.S. “Leadership”: Three Questions for the Candidate

The decision by Marco Rubio to seek the Republican presidential nomination is audacious. But it would be a mistake to underestimate the first-term senator from Florida. As the current occupant of the…

U.S. Senator Marco Rubio announces his 2016 presidential campaign at the Freedom Tower in Miami, Florida, on April 13, 2015.

December 15, 2010

Politics and Government
Senator Kyl’s Line in the Sand

Just as the prospects for the New START Treaty started to look good, they no longer do.  Josh Rogin reports that Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) just drew a line in the sand: Kyl said Tuesday he still does…

Senator Kyl’s Line in the Sand

May 9, 2012

Trade
Morning Brief: House and Senate Debate Transportation

Fourteen senators and 33 representatives began meeting yesterday to attempt to hammer out a compromise between two versions of the transportation spending bill (Reuters). Politico discusses the major…

A highway construction worker is engulfed in a cloud of dust as he works in Royse City, Texas in July 2011. (Mike Stone/Courtesy Reuters)