Senate

Despite Biden’s pleas, Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema aren’t budging on the filibuster, leaving no viable path for the two major election overhaul bills.

Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says the Senate will vote soon on easing filibuster rules in an effort to advance stalled voting rights legislation

The former Senate majority leader died after a four-year battle with prostate cancer, his wife said Tuesday.

The Senate has confirmed more than 30 ambassadors and other Biden administration nominees after Majority Leader Chuck Schumer agreed to schedule a vote on sanctions on the company behind the Nord Stream 2 pipeline that will deliver natural gas from Russia to Germany

Congress has approved a $2.5 trillion debt limit hike, sending legislation to avert a catastrophic default to President Joe Biden for his signature

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W. Va., on Monday said that the House should vote on the $1 trillion infrastructure package instead of focusing solely on President Joe Biden’s broader $1.75 trillion domestic policy proposal.

The bill now goes to the House of Representatives, which is expected to green-light the bill.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., announced Thursday morning that lawmakers have reached an agreement on a short-term debt ceiling increase, temporarily averting a government default.

Former Facebook employee Frances Haugen testified on Tuesday about the social media company.

The 30-day funding legislation will keep federal surface transportation workers on government payrolls and avoid shutdowns and furloughs at the Department of Transportation.

Congress passed the bill earlier Thursday, hours before a looming midnight deadline.

Gen. Mark Milley defended calls he made to assure his Chinese counterpart that the U.S. wasn’t going to attack in the final months of Donald Trump’s presidency, telling a Senate panel Tuesday that senior Trump officials were aware.

Sen. Mitchell McConnell, R-Ky., said during a speech on the Senate floor he has received a COVID vaccine booster shot.

The Senate’s nonpartisan parliamentarian says Democrats can’t use their $3.5 trillion package bolstering social and climate programs to give millions of immigrants a chance to become citizens

Sarah Klein was first abused by Larry Nassar in 1988 when she was just 8 years old. Today she is a pillar of support for the younger victims of the USA Gymnastics doctor’s abuse. They include Olympians Simone Biles and McKayla Maroney, who testified before the U.S. Senate on Wednesday about failures by the Department of Justice and FBI to...

FBI Director Christopher Wray issued an apology while testifying on Wednesday about the FBI’s role in investigating Larry Nassar.

Former NFL star Herschel Walker has filed paperwork to run for Senate as a Republican in Georgia.

Democrats are renewing their push to enact their marquee elections bill

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is conceding that Democrats face a tough pathway to delivering a $3.5 trillion package for family, health and environment programs to President Joe Biden’s desk

The Senate passed the first phase of Biden’s “Build Back Better” plan in a 69-30 vote Tuesday.