They were Sens. Mark Warner of Virginia, Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, Joe Manchin of West Virginia, and Angus King of Maine, an independent who caucuses with the Democrats.
An executive order that President Trump is expected to sign shortly restricts visits and immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries: Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Yemen, and Iran.
In a first, crucial test of whether Democrats would present a united front to defend human rights and civil liberties in the Trump era, they failed.
Mike Pompeo said he'd follow the guidelines that currently ban torture -- but would consider changing them.
The establishment that President Donald Trump railed against in his inaugural address will be well represented in his administration,
Right-wing Israeli lawmakers gathered with prominent American evangelicals gathered at Greater New Hope Baptist Church in Washington D.C.
DeVos criticized Bernie Sanders's tuition plan for its largess. Her own wealth is built off of inheritance and marriage.
King clashed not just with reactionary Southern segregationists, but with elites who viewed his turn against the Vietnam War and concern with economic inequality as dangerous and radical.
The measure introduced by Bernie Sanders would have passed without Democratic defections.
Tillerson showed either a callous disregard for the lives of Yemeni civilians or striking ignorance about what the Saudis are doing there with U.S. help already.
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