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Tillis ramps up Senate GOP debate on rules changes, offering ideas of his own

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) sent a letter to his GOP colleagues Sunday targeting proposed rule changes from the right flank of Senate Republicans — and offering some alternative ideas of his own.

Senate GOP clamor over leadership changes grows louder as Lee insists on term limits

In a letter to his colleagues on Wednesday, Sen. Mike Lee argued against Sen. Thom Tillis' proposals to further empower the Republican leader.

Tillis warns conservatives’ ‘unwise’ reforms would ‘weaken’ Senate GOP

North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis (R) circulated a “Dear Colleague” letter Tuesday warning that some of the reforms being pushed by Senate conservatives would only weaken the next Senate Republican leader and cause the same chaos that is plaguing the House Republican majority.

McConnell ally claps back over leadership demands

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) — an ally of Minority Leader Mitch McConnell — hit back at conservatives' demands for a new brand of leadership once McConnell steps down in a letter to colleagues Tuesday morning.

Inside the Republican drama over Mitch McConnell’s successor

Even as Republican senators prepare to elect Mitch McConnell’s successor as leader, there’s a debate raging among them over how much power to give the winner.

Hard-line GOP effort to decentralize Senate leader authority dashed by McConnell ally

As Senate Republicans approach their first competitive leader election in decades to pick a replacement for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., forces in the conference are pushing dueling pathways for the party as hard-liners hope to decentralize the leader's authority in backing "Democrat priorities."

How senators can restore the world’s greatest deliberative body

Today’s Senate is dysfunctional by any measure. The “world’s greatest deliberative body” now spends most of its time voting on routine presidential nominations to the executive and judicial branches.