FORUM TOPIC

Senate

  • Candidates to Watch in 2024

    We asked top GOP strategists a simple question — when you look out across the country, who do you see as being some of Republican rising stars that America will be hearing more about next year?

  • Ripon Profile of Thom Tillis

    Thom Tillis explains explains why “securing our border and implementing comprehensive immigration reform” are among his top legislative priorities and what Republicans need to do to retake the Senate next year.

  • Bring Back Conference Committees

    Like so many aspects of the legislative process, the Conference Committee has fallen victim to the dramatic shift of congressional power to party leadership.

  • A View from the Front Lines: Battle for the Senate 2022

    Republicans have the winds at our back in the quest to take back the Senate majority in 2022 and are well positioned to gain the one seat needed to do so, if not many more.

  • Ripon Profile of Mike Braun

    Indiana’s newest Senator discusses his private sector background and how it equips him to best address the challenges facing his state.

  • Ripon Profile of Bill Cassidy

    The physician and Louisiana Senator discusses his priorities on Capitol Hill and the challenge facing the residents of his home state that he is working to address.

  • A New Manhattan Project for Clean Energy

    At a time when people are looking for solutions to the Nation’s energy challenges, this Tennessee Senator sets forth a bold plan that would provide just that.

  • Ripon Profile of Bill Frist

    “I am conservative. I believe the free enterprise system can do a better job at most things than the government can. People should learn to be self-reliant; when they are self reliant, they will have self-respect.”

  • Ripon Profile of Cory Gardner

    In the latest Ripon Profile, the freshman Senator from Colorado discusses the message of the last election and what voters want from Washington, DC. “I think voters around the country are searching for a positive message. They want to hear what your plan is, and they want to…

  • The Loneliest Airplane

    Brad Todd discusses how a ride on Air Force One is usually high on the wish list for senatorial candidates. With the President’s plummeting poll numbers, that’s no longer the case.

  • The Forgotten Prize of 2012

    Amid all the coverage of the presidential campaign, the Utah Senator explains why the GOP’s biggest victory next year may not be winning the White House, but the Senate.

  • “Today’s biggest problem is not ideology, but partisan politics.”

    “Some in D.C. have lost the ability to disagree without being disagreeable – and that is unfortunate, because such heated rhetoric often stands in the way of compromise when it might otherwise be achieved.”