Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) is urging his party to “hit the pause button” and scale back its multitrillion-dollar spending proposal dealing with climate, health care, immigration and more, presenting yet ...
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is nominating Victoria Kennedy, an attorney and the widow of Sen. Ted Kennedy, to serve as his ambassador to Austria. He’s naming a top political ...
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) revealed Wednesday which provisions he would support in the For the People Act, a sweeping package of voting rights, campaign finance, ethics and redistricting reforms. The ...
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday announced his support for repealing the 2002 authorization for military force in Iraq almost 20 years after voting for it in Congress. ...
A group of Senate Republicans on Thursday laid out what they see as a “road map” to overhauling the nation’s crumbling infrastructure system, offering a much different vision than the ...
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) signaled a willingness to reform the filibuster Friday, a significant development from the veteran legislator who had long defended the procedure. “President Biden this week suggested ...
A coalition pushing to reform the filibuster just tripled in size after dozens of progressive groups signed on to argue Democrats cannot enact their full agenda, including expanding voting rights, ...
The Senate on Monday confirmed Rep. Deb Haaland (D-N.M.), a member of the Pueblo of Laguna tribe of New Mexico, as the 54th secretary of the Interior Department, the massive ...
Democrats’ push to pass a $15 minimum wage in their $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package violates Senate rules, according to the Senate’s parliamentarian, who delivered a likely fatal blow Friday ...
Former President Donald Trump went after Senator Mitch McConnell, calling the Senate minority leader “a dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack.” In a lengthy statement on Tuesday, Trump said that McConnell ...
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