Narrow passage of a sweeping health care bill by the House of Representatives portends a continuing difficult fight for President Obama and fellow Democrats to get a bill through the Senate and into ...

Mississippi’s Senate primaries set up a general election showdown between an incumbent and a challenger she blocked from federal judgeship. Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith and Democrat Scott Colom, a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mar. 6—OLYMPIA — Sen. Leonard Christian, R-Spokane Valley, said in a statement Friday he understands now "that my remarks on the ...

OLYMPIA – Responding to a controversy this week, Sen. Leonard Christian said in a statement Friday he now understands “that my remarks on the Senate floor Wednesday have given offense to some members ...

The Senate has kicked off extended debate on the “SAVE America Act” — one of President Donald Trump’s top legislative priorities. Lawmakers voted to begin consideration of the bill that would require ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images) Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), one of the key swing votes in the U.S. Senate, told ...

Washington — The Senate failed again on Thursday to advance a measure to fund the Department of Homeland Security, with the impasse growing increasingly acrimonious nearly a month into the partial ...

For several years, veterans groups have been pushing for legislation that would allow those wounded in combat to receive both disability benefits and retirement pay. However, a bill intended to do ...

Washington — The Senate voted Tuesday to begin a marathon debate session over the SAVE America Act, an elections bill that President Trump has been pressing Republicans in Congress to pass, despite ...

A group of Senate Democrats are threatening to use every procedural tool at their disposal to hold up business on the Senate floor unless Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Defense Pete ...