One by one, D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser and her allies tackled objections from the bill’s chief opponents to carve out a last ...

The fate of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet is still unclear after Republican senators spent much of December ...

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) insists the Senate can chart a bipartisan course on global challenges under President-elect ...

"Just last week, the national debt eclipsed $30 trillion," he said on that night in 2022. "As our national debt balloons, ...

The Antisemitism Awareness Act, which would codify a key legal foothold for Jewish students fighting antisemitism on college ...

The Clinton-era law created a separate, unequal justice system for prisoners, placing obstacles in their way before civil ...

Three federal judges appointed by Democrats have changed their retirement plans ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s ...

President Biden vetoed a once-bipartisan effort to add 66 federal district judgeships, saying the House's “hurried action” ...

BOSTON — Even as departing lawmakers are packing belongings into cardboard boxes, the wheels of the Legislature continue to ...

Of the senators heading for the exits, seven are retiring, three lost their reelection bids, one resigned, and two others ...

Kyrsten Sinema arrived in the U.S. Senate in 2019 as a Democrat with a pledge to model her tenure on another Arizona senator, self-described Republican “maverick” John McCain, who died just months ...

Republican Max Wise, the Kentucky Senate's incoming floor leader, talks about the upcoming legislative session and his ...