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The $740 billion economic package from Democrats is made up of health care, climate change and deficit-reduction strategies.

The estimated $740 billion package heads next to the House, where lawmakers are poised to deliver on Biden’s priorities. News 4’s Adam Harding reports.

The Senate has approved Democrats’ big election-year economic package. The legislation is less ambitious than President Joe Biden’s original domestic goals.

A divided Senate has voted to start debating Democrats’ election-year economic bill.

Entertainer and activist Jon Stewart ripped the 41 Republican senators who voted against the PACT Act, blocking a bill that would provide resources for veterans exposed to toxic burn pits. “Cowards, all of them.”

The Senate has passed a bill that’s designed to encourage more semiconductor companies to build chip plants in the United States.

The House on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a bill tp protect same-sex and interracial marriages.

Highlights of the bipartisan gun violence bill the Senate approved Thursday and the House is expected to pass Friday

An historic deal on gun control as Congress appears ready to take a step toward real reform, but that step is limited in size and scope. News 4’s Anjali Hemphill reports.

The deal, negotiated by Sens. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., and John Cornyn, R-Texas, could be the most significant federal action on gun violence in nearly three decades

A milestone measure that would tap the brakes on the spread of cryptocurrency mining operations burning fossil fuels in New York has passed the state Legislature. The bill approved early Friday by the state Senate would establish a two-year moratorium on new and renewed air permits for fossil fuel power plants used for energy-intensive “proof-of-work” cryptomining. Proof-of-work is the blockchain-based algorithm...

Democrats’ first attempt at responding to the back-to-back mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde, Texas, has failed in the Senate.

Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee spoke on Wednesday about the tragedy in Uvalde, Texas.

Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy took to the Senate floor Tuesday to address politicians and beg for change after a mass shooting resulted in the death of over 19 kids and two teachers at an elementary school in Texas.

Democrats delivered pointed reactions after the Senate voted 49-51 against the Women’s Health Protection Act on Wednesday, rejecting nationally codifying abortion rights.

Congress has not made it easy to find out if your members of Congress have investments related to their policy-making decisions. So NBCLX storyteller Peter Hull compiled those financial disclosures into an interactive tool that allows the public to see the investments of their U.S. Senators in one place for the first time. He joined LX News Now to explain...

During an Earth Day speech in Seattle, President Joe Biden talked about the leaked audio of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., condemning former President Donald Trump’s involvement in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.

Senate Republicans unveiled a plan to spur business by tailoring regulation and ensuring retail investors have access to young ventures.

Republican Senators Lisa Murkowski and Mitt Romney say they will vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s historic nomination to the Supreme Court, giving President Joe Biden’s nominee a new burst of bipartisan support to become the first Black woman on the high court

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