The federal government remained closed Tuesday amid a bitter impasse on Capitol Hill. When does the Senate vote again on the shutdown? What to know.

Sen. Ted Cruz was at the center of a number of X jokes on Tuesday after he said Democrats and Republicans should come together to "stop attacking pedophiles" The post ‘Stop Attacking Pedophiles!’ Ted Cruz Lampooned for Awkward Gaffe in Senate Hearing first appeared on Mediaite.

Earlier in his career, Sam Feist ran a news program called "Crossfire" that tried to capture viewership by having liberals and conservatives bicker with one another. Now he hopes to achieve similar results with a similar program that drops the arguments and squabbles.

Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Subcommittee on Science, Manufacturing, and Competitiveness Committee Federal officials from NASA, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), a…

Pam Bondi and Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) sparred during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday after Schiff listed off all the questions Bondi had dodged so far during the hearing.

A spokesperson for Cruz later told reporters the senator experienced a verbal slip while rattling off a series of crimes. He meant to say "Let's stop pedophiles" but accidentally added the word "attacking," completely changing the meaning of his statement.

Readers of a certain age may have seen or studied in high school a hearing in the 1950s when Joseph Welch, an attorney for the U.S. Army, essentially cut the knees out from under red-baiting demagogue Joe McCarthy and his baseless claims of communists in the military by demanding, “Have you no sense of decency, sir?”

The Senate is slated to vote on measures to keep the government open ahead of the midnight shutdown deadline. There will be two votes considering proposals brought forth by Democrats and

Cruz truly — and mistakenly — said these words during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington on Sept. 30, 2025. Cruz made the remark while talking about falling Washington crime rates. The context of his comments showed he intended to say "Let's stop pedophiles" or a similar statement.

Bondi brushed aside with seeming disdain questions about her tumultuous tenure, flatly refusing to answer time and again as Democrats pressed her on politically charged investigations.