| 2026-06-01 | Boasberg criminal-contempt case stalled while Bove, central to it, is confirmed to the Third Circuit
3 src James Boasberg · Emil Bove · Department of Justice · U.S. Senate | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-10 | Hegseth Calls for Second Pentagon Investigation of Sen. Mark Kelly Over Public Statements About U.S. Weapons Stockpiles During Iran War
1 src Pete Hegseth · Mark Kelly · Department of Defense · U.S. Senate | | confirmed |
| 2026-03-24 | Markwayne Mullin Sworn In as DHS Secretary After 54-45 Senate Confirmation; Immediately Pauses WEXMAC-TITUS Warehouse Detention Buildout
8 src Markwayne Mullin · Donald Trump · Kristi Noem · John Fetterman · +5 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-11 | Bipartisan Senators Request GAO Audit of DOJ Handling of Epstein Files
4 src U.S. Senate · Dick Durbin · Jeff Merkley · Lisa Murkowski · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-10 | Senate Stablecoin Bill Stalls as Democrats Cite Trump Crypto Conflicts of Interest
4 src Donald Trump · U.S. Senate · Elizabeth Warren · Jeff Merkley · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-09 | Senate Democrats Demand Hegseth and Rubio Testify on Iran War, Threaten Repeated War Powers Votes
5 src Pete Hegseth · Marco Rubio · Tim Kaine · Chris Murphy · +8 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-03 | Senate Republicans Block Four Democratic Resolutions Condemning Trump Foreign Emoluments and Crypto Conflicts
4 src U.S. Senate · Richard Blumenthal · Donald Trump · World Liberty Financial |
| confirmed |
| 2025-10-27 | Senate Confirms Multiple Alabama District Court Judges in Late October
3 src Donald Trump · U.S. Senate |
| reported |
| 2025-10-27 | Senate Confirms Rebecca Taibleson to Seventh Circuit Despite Conservative Opposition
3 src Donald Trump · Tammy Baldwin · U.S. Senate |
| reported |
| 2025-10-09 | Senate Confirms Jennifer Mascott to Third Circuit Court of Appeals
3 src U.S. Senate · Donald Trump · Federalist Society |
| reported |
| 2025-10-07 | Jonathan Berry — Project 2025 DOL Chapter Author — Confirmed Solicitor of Labor
4 src U.S. Senate |
| confirmed |
| 2025-10-07 | Palantir Senior Advisor Jacob Helberg Confirmed as Under Secretary of State (51-47)
5 src Jacob Helberg · Alex Karp · Palantir Technologies · Peter Thiel · +4 |
| confirmed |
| 2025-10-07 | Senate Confirms Michael Stuart as HHS General Counsel — First Former U.S. Attorney in the Role; Single Most Comprehensive Palantir Disclosure Exposure in the HHS Cluster
4 src Donald Trump · U.S. Senate · Department of Health and Human Services |
| confirmed |
| 2025-08-02 | Senate Confirms Jeanine Pirro as U.S. Attorney for Washington D.C.
3 src Jeanine Pirro · Trump · U.S. Senate · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2025-08-01 | DOJ Uses Legal Loopholes to Install Trump Loyalists as Acting U.S. Attorneys Without Senate Confirmation
3 src Department of Justice · Pam Bondi · U.S. Senate · Federal Judiciary · +2 | | confirmed |
| 2025-07-29 | Senate Confirms Emil Bove to Third Circuit Court of Appeals 50-49 Despite DOJ Mass-Resignation Record and Whistleblower Allegations
4 src Emil Bove · U.S. Senate · Department of Justice · Danielle Sassoon · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2025-07-10 | Senate Appropriators Reject House Proposal to Halve GAO Budget
4 src U.S. Senate · Government Accountability Office (GAO) |
| confirmed |
| 2025-07-01 | Vance Casts Tiebreaker Passing the One Big Beautiful Bill Act: Enabling Event for Project 2025 Treasury/Tax Chapter and Endowment-Tax Implementation
7 src J.D. Vance · Donald Trump · Rand Paul · Susan Collins · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2025-06-18 | Senate Confirms Rodney Scott as CBP Commissioner 51–46, Seven Weeks After IACHR Found U.S. Responsible for Hernández Rojas Cover-Up He Supervised
5 src Rodney Scott · U.S. Senate |
| confirmed |
| 2025-06-05 | Thiel Foundation CEO Jim O'Neill Confirmed as HHS Deputy Secretary (52-43)
6 src Jim O'Neill · Peter Thiel · Thiel Capital · Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · +4 |
| confirmed |
| 2025-04-29 | Elizabeth Warren reads 100 acts of Trump corruption into Congressional Record on 100th day
3 src Elizabeth Warren · U.S. Senate · Donald Trump · Trump Administration |
| confirmed |
| 2025-03-25 | Thiel Capital Chief of Staff Michael Kratsios Confirmed as OSTP Director (74-25)
5 src Peter Thiel · Thiel Capital · Scale AI · Trump Administration · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2025-03-24 | Senate Confirms John Phelan as 79th Secretary of the Navy 62-30 Despite Multimillion-Dollar Blue Owl and MSD Holdings
3 src John Phelan · Donald Trump · U.S. Senate · Blue Owl Capital · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2025-02-07 | President fires Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger; litigation ensues
3 src Donald Trump · Hampton Dellinger · Office of Special Counsel · Amy Berman Jackson · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2025-01-24 | Pete Hegseth confirmed as Defense Secretary in historic VP tiebreaker vote
3 src Pete Hegseth · J.D. Vance · U.S. Senate · Mitch McConnell · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2025-01-24 | Vance Casts Tiebreaker Confirming Hegseth as Defense Secretary: Enabling Event for Project 2025 DoD-Purge Chapter
5 src J.D. Vance · Pete Hegseth · U.S. Senate · Mitch McConnell · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2025-01-21 | Russell Vought Becomes OMB Director - Project 2025 Chief Architect
5 src Russell Vought · Donald Trump · Office of Management and Budget · U.S. Senate · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2025-01-20 | JD Vance Sworn In as 50th Vice President, Positioned for Potential Constitutional Crisis Management
3 src J.D. Vance · Brett Kavanaugh · Donald Trump · U.S. Supreme Court · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2024-01-01 | Oracle Spends $11 Million on Federal Lobbying, Focuses on TikTok Data Storage Deal
3 src Oracle · U.S. Senate · Senate Intelligence Committee |
| confirmed |
| 2023-12-14 | Vance Introduces College Endowment Accountability Act: 35% Excise Tax on Large University Endowments
4 src J.D. Vance · Ron Wyden · U.S. Senate |
| confirmed |
| 2021-11-16 | Jonathan Kanter Confirmed as DOJ Antitrust Chief After Longest Delay in Modern History
3 src Jonathan Kanter · Department of Justice · U.S. Senate · Antitrust Division |
| confirmed |
| 2021-10-05 | Frances Haugen Senate Testimony Exposes Facebook Algorithmic Harm to Children and Democracy
4 src Frances Haugen · Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · U.S. Senate · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2021-06-15 | Lina Khan Confirmed as FTC Chair at Age 32, Youngest Ever
3 src Lina Khan · Joe Biden · U.S. Senate · Federal Trade Commission |
| confirmed |
| 2021-05-28 | Biden Nominates Frank Kendall for Air Force Secretary After $702,000 in Northrop Grumman Consulting Fees
3 src Northrop Grumman · U.S. Air Force · Joe Biden · U.S. Senate |
| confirmed |
| 2010-06-24 | DISCLOSE Act Passes House But GOP Blocks Senate Vote on Citizens United Response
4 src Chuck Schumer · Chris Van Hollen · Mitch McConnell · Barack Obama · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2009-06-26 | Koch Network Mobilizes to Kill Waxman-Markey Cap-and-Trade Climate Bill
3 src Koch brothers · Charles Koch · David Koch · Americans for Prosperity · +4 |
| confirmed |
| 2009-03-10 | Employee Free Choice Act Abandoned Despite Democratic Supermajority, Corporate Lobbying Victory
3 src Barack Obama · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · Business Roundtable · AFL-CIO · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2002-10-11 | Iraq War Authorization Vote Succeeds Through WHIG's Systematic Congressional Deception
3 src White House Iraq Group · U.S. House of Representatives · U.S. Senate · Hillary Clinton · +5 |
| confirmed |
| 2000-12-15 | Phil Gramm Inserts 262-Page CFMA into 11,000-Page Spending Bill Hours Before Christmas Recess
4 src Phil Gramm · U.S. Senate · U.S. House of Representatives · Bill Clinton · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2000-10-10 | Clinton Signs China PNTR Ending Annual Review, Enabling WTO Entry and Manufacturing Exodus
4 src Bill Clinton · U.S. Senate · U.S. House of Representatives |
| confirmed |
| 1999-07-02 | Lawrence Summers Becomes Treasury Secretary, Accelerates Derivatives Deregulation Campaign
4 src Lawrence Summers · Bill Clinton · Robert Rubin · U.S. Senate |
| confirmed |
| 1999-02-12 | Senate Acquits President Clinton on Both Impeachment Articles
3 src Bill Clinton · U.S. Senate · Senate Republicans · Senate Democrats |
| confirmed |
| 1993-01-22 | Zoe Baird Nomination Collapses Over Undocumented Nanny, Launching Immigration Enforcement Politicization
3 src Bill Clinton · U.S. Senate · Janet Reno | | confirmed |
| 1987-10-23 | Senate Rejects Robert Bork Supreme Court Nomination 42-58, First Ideological Rejection in Nearly a Century
4 src Robert Bork · Ronald Reagan · Edward Kennedy · Lewis Powell · +5 |
| confirmed |
| 1987-09-16 | Senate Resolution Acknowledges Haudenosaunee Influence on Constitution During Bicentennial Celebrations
2 src U.S. Senate · Haudenosaunee Confederacy |
| confirmed |
| 1978-06-22 | Labor Law Reform Act Killed by Filibuster After Business Roundtable Lobbying Blitz
3 src Business Roundtable · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · National Association of Manufacturers · AFL-CIO · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 1976-05-19 | Senate Creates Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, First Institutional Legislative Oversight of U.S. Intelligence Agencies
3 src U.S. Senate · Frank Church · Howard Baker | | confirmed |
| 1975-04-22 | Church Committee: Landmark Democratic Resistance Framework Against Intelligence Abuses
3 src Frank Church · U.S. Senate · Central Intelligence Agency · National Security Agency · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 1972-01-07 | Lewis Powell Sworn in as Supreme Court Justice, Begins Implementing Corporate Blueprint
3 src Lewis F. Powell Jr. · Richard Nixon · U.S. Supreme Court · U.S. Senate |
| confirmed |
| 1971-10-21 | Nixon nominates Lewis Powell to Supreme Court two months after corporate blueprint memo
4 src Richard Nixon · Lewis F. Powell Jr. · U.S. Senate | | confirmed |
| 1954-02-26 | Bricker Amendment Fails by One Vote, Conservative Attempt to Limit Treaty Power Defeated
3 src Dwight D. Eisenhower · American Bar Association · U.S. Senate · American Medical Association · +1 | | confirmed |
| 1951-03-12 | Kefauver Committee Televised Hearings Draw 30 Million Viewers - Organized Crime Exposed
3 src Estes Kefauver · U.S. Senate | | confirmed |
| 1941-03-01 | Truman Committee Established to Investigate War Profiteering
4 src Harry S. Truman · U.S. Senate · Defense contractors | | confirmed |
| 1937-07-22 | Senate Defeats FDR Court-Packing Plan 70-22, Handing Roosevelt His Greatest Legislative Defeat
3 src U.S. Senate · Franklin D. Roosevelt · Senate Judiciary Committee · Supreme Court of the United States | | confirmed |
| 1936-06-06 | La Follette Civil Liberties Committee Begins Investigation Exposing Corporate Union-Busting and Industrial Espionage
3 src U.S. Senate · Pinkerton Detective Agency · General Motors · Ford Motor Company · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1934-04-12 | Nye Committee Begins Investigation of War Profiteering and Munitions Industry "Merchants of Death"
3 src U.S. Senate | | confirmed |
| 1928-08-27 | Kellogg-Briand Pact Outlaws War While Preserving Imperial Prerogatives
3 src Calvin Coolidge · U.S. Senate | | confirmed |
| 1919-06-04 | Senate Passes 19th Amendment Sending Women's Suffrage to States for Ratification
3 src U.S. Senate · U.S. House of Representatives · Woodrow Wilson · National Woman's Party | | confirmed |
| 1856-05-22 | Preston Brooks Beats Charles Sumner on Senate Floor, Southern Elite Celebrates Violence
3 src U.S. Senate · U.S. House of Representatives | | confirmed |
| 1848-02-02 | Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Promises Land Rights Then Enables Systematic Theft from Mexican Americans
4 src U.S. Senate · Mexico · U.S. government | | confirmed |
| 1846-08-08 | Wilmot Proviso Triggers Sectional Crisis Over Slavery in Conquered Mexican Territory
4 src James K. Polk · U.S. House of Representatives · U.S. Senate · Northern Democrats · +1 | | confirmed |
| 1834-03-28 | Senate Censures Jackson for Pet Banks Scheme and Constitutional Overreach
3 src Andrew Jackson · Henry Clay · U.S. Senate | | confirmed |
| 1803-10-20 | Louisiana Purchase Demonstrates Jefferson Constitutional Hypocrisy and Executive Power Expansion
3 src Thomas Jefferson · U.S. Senate · France | | confirmed |
| 1801-02-13 | Midnight Judges Act Enables Lame-Duck Court Packing by Defeated Federalists
3 src John Adams · Federalist Party · U.S. Senate | | confirmed |