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Thank you Mr. President. It is my honor to represent the good people of Wisconsin in the United States Senate. It is an awesome responsibility - a responsibility I take very seriously.Today, it is...

By Glenn Thrush and Jonathan AllenThe low point may have come Thursday night.House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) had spent more than an hour meeting with President Barack Obama in the Oval...

By Gregory SimmonsAs House and Senate lawmakers scramble to avert a government shutdown, one Republican senator says the debate over spending is "certainly a fight worth having.""I don't need a...

This wasn't a resolution to authorize operations in Libya but something far craftier — a resolution reaffirming Obama's own words from 2007 that "the President does not have power under the...

By Ron JohnsonToday is the first anniversary of the greatest single assault on our freedom in my lifetime: the signing of ObamaCare. As we consider what this law may do to our country, I can't help...

By Emily CadeiTea party-backed Republican freshmen in Congress are facing the first American military campaign initiated under their watch, and their reactions have varied dramatically.Many have...

By Bernie BeckerA group of seven GOP senators is looking to add further pressure on the White House on trade, penning a letter asking President Obama to negotiate a free trade agreement that covers...

By Shira ToeplitzTwenty-two Republicans senators are threatening to vote against raising the debt ceiling later this year unless the president concedes to cuts in Social Security, Medicare and...

By Jennifer RubinSen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), a former businessman and now a freshman senator, held a conference call Thursday afternoon with a small group of bloggers. For a freshman, he's entirely...

Sens. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) wrote to Senate Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), requesting his help in their effort to...

Today, Sen. Ron Johnson, a newly elected lawmaker from the state of Wisconsin, held a conference call with bloggers to discuss the recent spending votes in the Senate and the generally dismal fiscal...

By Vicki NeedhamEight Republican senators vowed on Thursday to hold up bills that contain new spending and funding for duplicate federal programs. Sens. Tom Coburn (Okla.), John McCain (Ariz.),...

By Clare GoldsberryIn the November 2010 midterm elections, Ron Johnson, owner and president of Pacur Inc. and a Republican politician, beat out Wisconsin's three-term Democratic senator, Russ...

By Robert CostaIn late February, Rep. Paul Ryan, the rangy Republican who chairs the House Budget Committee, addressed a group of businessmen in a ballroom overlooking frozen Lake Monona. Down the...

By David M. Drucker and John StantonThe spotlight returns to Capitol Hill today, where lawmakers are trying to forge a compromise spending bill and avert a government shutdown after a recess that...

By Allysia FinleyIt's hard to believe, but the first time Ron Johnson, Wisconsin's newly elected Republican senator, saw Washington, D.C., was when he arrived for his Senate orientation in...

By Carl HulseAfter another quiet appearance on the Senate floor, Senator Marco Rubio, the heralded freshman Republican from Florida, quickly made his way back to his office, avoiding eye contact...

By Michelle LodgeThe collective bargaining process with public sector unions needs to be restructured to keep labor unions from "bankrupting states," Sen. Ron Johnson, (R-Wisc.), told CNBC...

By John McCormackLast week, President Obama said that Wisconsin governor Scott Walker's budget bill is an "assault on workers." Today, Wisconsin senator Ron Johnson said Obama should mind his own...