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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.

The Senate approved the plan Tuesday with a 69-30 vote.

The bill includes money to rebuild roads and bridges, shore up coastlines against climate change, protect public utility systems from cyberattacks and modernize the electric grid. Public transit gets a boost, as do airports and freight rail. Most lead drinking water pipes in America could be replaced.

Senate Democrats have unwrapped a budget resolution envisioning a $3.5 trillion, 10-year cascade of federal resources for family support, health and education programs

U.S. senators from both parties have hoisted the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package over another procedural hurdle

The Senate has moved closer to passing a $1 trillion infrastructure package after lawmakers from both parties came together and voted on Saturday to clear a key procedural hurdle.

After much delay, senators have unveiled their $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill

President Joe Biden this week took a huge step toward achieving a hallmark legislative accomplishment.

The Senate has further advanced a roughly $1 trillion infrastructure plan with a bipartisan group of senators helping it clear one more hurdle Friday

Congress has overwhelmingly passed emergency legislation that will bolster security at the Capitol, repay outstanding debts from the violent Jan. 6 insurrection and increase the number of visas for allies who worked alongside Americans in the Afghanistan war

The Senate has voted to start work on a nearly $1 trillion national infrastructure package

President Joe Biden has leapt back into the Senate’s up-and-down efforts to clinch a bipartisan $1 trillion infrastructure deal

Senate Democrats say they’ve reached a budget agreement envisioning spending $3.5 trillion over the coming decade.

Senators love to debate the validity of the filibuster and whether laws should be passed with a super-majority of 60 votes or a simple majority of 51 votes. But both parties have benefitted at one time from the filibuster, and both parties have revised the rules when they’ve held the majority votes. So what exactly is the filibuster and why...