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The Senate voted Sunday to advance Sen. Markwayne Mullin’s (R-Okla.) to succeed Kristi Noem as secretary of Homeland Security, taking a step toward...
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), a leading Senate conservative, is proposing to colleagues the idea of splitting off Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)...
Senate Republicans on Saturday voted against an unusual procedural gambit by Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) to suspend the Senate...
Senate Democrats voted Saturday to defeat a Republican-sponsored amendment to the SAVE America Act that would prohibit transgender athletes from...
The shutdown of the Department of the Homeland Security (DHS) stretched to 35 days on Friday as Senate Democrats voted to block a House-passed bill to...
The Senate approved by unanimous consent Thursday a proposal to end the special treatment members of Congress get at airports that allows them to...
The Senate is planning to debate and vote on the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, called the SAVE America Act, through this weekend as Senate...
White House border czar Tom Homan met with a group of centrist Democrats at the Capitol on Thursday, circumventing Senate Democratic Leader Chuck...
Illinois Lieutenant Gov. Juliana Stratton, the Democrat favored to win the race to succeed Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), says she won’t support Sen....
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) says that Senate Homeland Security Committee Chair Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.),...
Senate Republicans say the debate within their conference over how hard to push for passage of the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America)...
Senate Republicans on Wednesday defeated a Democratic-sponsored motion to advance a war powers resolution to halt President Trump’s military strikes...
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) says Republicans will attack Democrats in the fall elections for failing to enact the SAVE America Act if...
Tempers are starting to boil within the Senate Republican Conference as disagreements arise over how to handle President Trump’s No. 1 legislative...
The Senate voted Tuesday to begin a long and contentious debate over the SAVE America Act, a bill that would require people to show documented proof...
White House negotiators are reviewing a Democratic proposal to fund and reopen the Department of Homeland Security, but the talks are inching along...
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) says he’s getting tired of Republicans being “lazy and unstrategic” amid intraparty disputes over both the SAVE...
President Trump's push to eliminate voting by mail without excuses such as illness or military duty, a component of the Safeguard American Voter...
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) is calling the SAVE America Act, the voting reform legislation that Senate Republicans will bring to the...
President Trump’s allies are planning to take over the Senate floor this week in a bid to pass the SAVE America Act, setting up a major test for...
Sen. Andy Kim (D-N.J.), who served on the U.S. National Security Council during the Obama administration, says that the missile strike on an...
Growing security lines at airports around the country are putting pressure on both White House and Senate Democratic negotiators to reach a deal to...
Senate Democrats on Thursday defeated a motion to proceed to a House-passed bill to reopen the Department of Homeland Security and end the 27-day...
With Fetterman stating his opposition, every Democrat is expected to vote no on the bill.
Republican senators are getting louder in warning President Trump that economic headwinds caused by the administration’s tariff regime combined with...
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) on Wednesday unveiled legislation to remove Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for the use of mifepristone to end...
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) told GOP colleagues Tuesday that they don’t have the votes to pass a House-approved voting reform bill...
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) on Tuesday bluntly rejected President Trump’s call to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility...
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), the only Republican senator to vote last week for a resolution to halt military action against Iran, says it will be very hard...
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) is standing his ground against President Trump’s campaign to pressure Republicans to radically...
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...
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) on Sunday called on President Trump to immediately release oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve amid...
The ouster of Kristi Noem opens the path for a potential deal to reopen the Department of Homeland Security, according to Senate sources familiar with...
Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) says that Senate will confirm Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) to replace Kristi Noem as secretary of Homeland Security,...
Kristi Noem’s assertion at a Senate hearing Tuesday that President Trump had given his blessing to a $220 million Department of Homeland Security...
Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) said he was surprised by President Trump’s call Thursday informing him that he would be tapped to replace ousted...
Centrist Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) on Wednesday defended President Trump’s massive military operation against Iran as a “good thing” and...
Senate Republicans voted largely along party lines Wednesday to defeat a bipartisan War Powers resolution to halt military action against Iran, even...
Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) is urging Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) not to “capitulate” to President Trump and commute the sentence of Tina...
Sen. Todd Young (Ind.), a key Senate GOP vote, announced Wednesday that he will oppose a war powers resolution to prohibit further military action...
Deep partisan divisions over how to respond to President Trump’s war against Iran are likely to give the president a free hand to launch missile...
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) told reporters Tuesday that President Trump has all the power he needs under the Constitution to conduct...
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has teamed up with Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) to propose a 5 percent annual wealth tax on the nation’s billionaires that...
Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) on Monday ripped President Trump for “following” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in launching a major...
Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill are scrambling to respond to the fast-developing conflict with Iran that has embroiled several U.S. allies...
Senior lawmakers in both parties said on Monday that the Trump administration’s decision to launch bombing and missile strikes across Iran this...
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Sunday said there was “no indication” that Tehran was “close to getting nuclear weapons” after the United States...
Republican and Democratic senators are quietly mulling ways to limit the impact of a prolonged government shutdown on air travel and, by extension,...
Lawmakers in both parties are bracing for a showdown in Congress this week over President Trump’s authorities as commander-in-chief after weekend...
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, warned on Sunday that there’s no end in sight to the escalating...