Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) has invoked the Senate’s “blue slip” tradition to block President Trump’s ...

The Senate has produced the quickest top-level Cabinet confirmation process in the last 20 years under new Majority Leader ...

Lawmakers met over the weekend to develop a compromise version of the bill that is more conscious of existing vapor ...

Now, it’s Chris Van Hollen’s turn. The mild-mannered Maryland senator has suddenly emerged as a leading figure in the ...

Plus, Gov. Bill Lee appoints the head of Tennessee's new immigration enforcement office and recess in elementary schools gets ...

The Senate passed legislation this week aimed at giving local education agencies greater flexibility in managing the rising ...

Dozens of trans students have competed in high school sports in Maine since 2013, but such participation has suddenly become ...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Monday backed a stock trading ban for sitting members of Congress, after ripping Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) for reportedly profiting off ...

Four years after that, at 27, he was appointed to the State Supreme Court, and at 33 to the U.S. Senate. (In 1852 ... the second would then have the floor for an hour and a half.

Booker, 55, took the floor at 7 p.m. Monday, announcing that he intended to disrupt “the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically able.” The senator painted ...