U.S. Senate
U.S. Senate is named in 56 events across the Capture Cascade Timeline, from 1801 to 2026.
Activity over time
Events per year
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-24 | Markwayne Mullin Sworn In as DHS Secretary After 54-45 Senate Confirmation; Immediately Pauses WEXMAC-TITUS Warehouse Detention Buildout Markwayne Mullin · Donald Trump · Kristi Noem · John Fetterman · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-11 | Bipartisan Senators Request GAO Audit of DOJ Handling of Epstein Files U.S. Senate · Dick Durbin · Ben Ray Lujan · Jeff Merkley · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-10 | Senate Stablecoin Bill Stalls as Democrats Cite Trump Crypto Conflicts of Interest 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 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 U.S. Senate · Richard Blumenthal · Brian Schatz · Senate Republican Caucus · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-27 | Senate Confirms Multiple Alabama District Court Judges in Late October Alabama Federal Courts · Bill Lewis · Donald Trump · Harold D. Mooty III · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-10-27 | Senate Confirms Rebecca Taibleson to Seventh Circuit Despite Conservative Opposition Donald Trump · Rebecca Taibleson · Ron Johnson · Tammy Baldwin · +2 | reported | |
| 2025-10-09 | Senate Confirms Jennifer Mascott to Third Circuit Court of Appeals Jennifer Mascott · U.S. Senate · U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · Donald Trump · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-10-07 | Palantir Senior Advisor Jacob Helberg Confirmed as Under Secretary of State (51-47) Jacob Helberg · Alex Karp · Palantir Technologies · Peter Thiel · +6 | 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 Michael B. Stuart · Shelley Moore Capito · Donald Trump · U.S. Senate · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-02 | Senate Confirms Jeanine Pirro as U.S. Attorney for Washington D.C. 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 Department of Justice · Pam Bondi · U.S. Senate · Federal Judiciary · +3 | 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 JD Vance · Donald Trump · Rand Paul · Susan Collins · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-05 | Thiel Foundation CEO Jim O'Neill Confirmed as HHS Deputy Secretary (52-43) Jim O'Neill · Peter Thiel · Thiel Foundation · Thiel Capital · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-29 | Elizabeth Warren reads 100 acts of Trump corruption into Congressional Record on 100th day 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) Michael Kratsios · Peter Thiel · Thiel Capital · Scale AI · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-07 | President fires Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger; litigation ensues Donald Trump · Hampton Dellinger · Office of Special Counsel · Judge Amy Berman Jackson · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-24 | Pete Hegseth confirmed as Defense Secretary in historic VP tiebreaker vote Pete Hegseth · JD 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 JD Vance · Pete Hegseth · U.S. Senate · Mitch McConnell · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-21 | Russell Vought Becomes OMB Director - Project 2025 Chief Architect 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 JD Vance · Brett Kavanaugh · Donald Trump · Usha Vance · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-01-01 | Oracle Spends $11 Million on Federal Lobbying, Focuses on TikTok Data Storage Deal Oracle · U.S. Senate · Senate Commerce Committee · Senate Intelligence Committee | confirmed | |
| 2023-12-14 | Vance Introduces College Endowment Accountability Act: 35% Excise Tax on Large University Endowments JD Vance · Ron Wyden · U.S. Senate | confirmed | |
| 2021-11-16 | Jonathan Kanter Confirmed as DOJ Antitrust Chief After Longest Delay in Modern History 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 Frances Haugen · Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · U.S. Senate · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-06-15 | Lina Khan Confirmed as FTC Chair at Age 32, Youngest Ever 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 Frank Kendall · Northrop Grumman · U.S. Air Force · Joe Biden · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2010-06-24 | DISCLOSE Act Passes House But GOP Blocks Senate Vote on Citizens United Response 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 Koch brothers · Charles Koch · David Koch · Americans for Prosperity · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2009-03-10 | Employee Free Choice Act Abandoned Despite Democratic Supermajority, Corporate Lobbying Victory Barack Obama · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · Business Roundtable · AFL-CIO · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2002-10-11 | Iraq War Authorization Vote Succeeds Through WHIG's Systematic Congressional Deception White House Iraq Group · U.S. House of Representatives · U.S. Senate · Hillary Clinton · +7 | confirmed | |
| 2000-12-15 | Phil Gramm Inserts 262-Page CFMA into 11,000-Page Spending Bill Hours Before Christmas Recess 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 Bill Clinton · U.S. Senate · U.S. House of Representatives · Chinese Government · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1999-07-02 | Lawrence Summers Becomes Treasury Secretary, Accelerates Derivatives Deregulation Campaign Lawrence Summers · Bill Clinton · Robert Rubin · U.S. Senate · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1999-02-12 | Senate Acquits President Clinton on Both Impeachment Articles Bill Clinton · U.S. Senate · Senate Republicans · Senate Democrats | confirmed | |
| 1993-01-22 | Zoe Baird Nomination Collapses Over Undocumented Nanny, Launching Immigration Enforcement Politicization Bill Clinton · Zoe Baird · U.S. Senate · Kimba Wood · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1987-10-23 | Senate Rejects Robert Bork Supreme Court Nomination 42-58, First Ideological Rejection in Nearly a Century Robert Bork · Ronald Reagan · Edward Kennedy · Lewis Powell · +5 | confirmed | |
| 1987-09-16 | Senate Resolution Acknowledges Haudenosaunee Influence on Constitution During Bicentennial Celebrations U.S. Senate · Haudenosaunee Confederacy · Six Nations | confirmed | |
| 1978-06-22 | Labor Law Reform Act Killed by Filibuster After Business Roundtable Lobbying Blitz 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 U.S. Senate · Frank Church · Daniel Inouye · Howard Baker · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1972-01-07 | Lewis Powell Sworn in as Supreme Court Justice, Begins Implementing Corporate Blueprint 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 Richard Nixon · Lewis F. Powell Jr. · U.S. Senate · William H. Rehnquist | confirmed | |
| 1954-02-26 | Bricker Amendment Fails by One Vote, Conservative Attempt to Limit Treaty Power Defeated John Bricker · Dwight D. Eisenhower · American Bar Association · U.S. Senate · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1951-03-12 | Kefauver Committee Televised Hearings Draw 30 Million Viewers - Organized Crime Exposed Estes Kefauver · U.S. Senate · Frank Costello · Virginia Hill | confirmed | |
| 1941-03-01 | Truman Committee Established to Investigate War Profiteering 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 U.S. Senate · Franklin D. Roosevelt · Senate Judiciary Committee · Joseph Robinson · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1936-06-06 | La Follette Civil Liberties Committee Begins Investigation Exposing Corporate Union-Busting and Industrial Espionage Robert La Follette Jr. · U.S. Senate · Pinkerton Detective Agency · Burns Detective Agency · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1934-04-12 | Nye Committee Begins Investigation of War Profiteering and Munitions Industry "Merchants of Death" Gerald Nye · U.S. Senate · J.P. Morgan Jr. · Pierre du Pont · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1928-08-27 | Kellogg-Briand Pact Outlaws War While Preserving Imperial Prerogatives Frank Kellogg · Aristide Briand · Calvin Coolidge · U.S. Senate | confirmed | |
| 1919-06-04 | Senate Passes 19th Amendment Sending Women's Suffrage to States for Ratification U.S. Senate · U.S. House of Representatives · Woodrow Wilson · National American Woman Suffrage Association · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1856-05-22 | Preston Brooks Beats Charles Sumner on Senate Floor, Southern Elite Celebrates Violence Preston Brooks · Charles Sumner · Andrew Butler · U.S. Senate · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1848-02-02 | Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Promises Land Rights Then Enables Systematic Theft from Mexican Americans U.S. Senate · Mexico · Mexican Americans · U.S. government · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1846-08-08 | Wilmot Proviso Triggers Sectional Crisis Over Slavery in Conquered Mexican Territory David Wilmot · James K. Polk · U.S. House of Representatives · U.S. Senate · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1834-03-28 | Senate Censures Jackson for Pet Banks Scheme and Constitutional Overreach Andrew Jackson · Henry Clay · Roger Taney · William Duane · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1803-10-20 | Louisiana Purchase Demonstrates Jefferson Constitutional Hypocrisy and Executive Power Expansion President Thomas Jefferson · Treasury Secretary Albert Gallatin · U.S. Senate · Napoleon Bonaparte · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1801-02-13 | Midnight Judges Act Enables Lame-Duck Court Packing by Defeated Federalists President John Adams · Federalist Party · U.S. Senate · William Marbury | confirmed |
Network neighbors
Donald Trump
15× shared
U.S. House of Representatives
8× shared
Bill Clinton
5× shared
JD Vance
5× shared
Trump Administration
4× shared
Chuck Schumer
3× shared
Department of Justice
3× shared
Joe Biden
3× shared
Lisa Murkowski
3× shared
Mitch McConnell
3× shared
Pam Bondi
3× shared
Pete Hegseth
3× shared
Peter Thiel
3× shared
Susan Collins
3× shared
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
3× shared
AFL-CIO
2× shared
Barack Obama
2× shared
Business Roundtable
2× shared
Department of Health and Human Services
2× shared
Elizabeth Warren
2× shared
Federalist Society
2× shared
Jeff Merkley
2× shared
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
2× shared
Rand Paul
2× shared
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