WASHINGTON (AP) — Easing off a stalemate, the Senate moved forward Tuesday with a power-sharing agreement in the evenly-split chamber after Republican leader Mitch McConnell backed off his demand that ...

America would have marked 53 years of Roe v. Wade on Jan. 22 if not for the Dobbs v. Jackson decision, and Harry Reid helped ...

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Axios reported Wednesday that President Joe Biden is fully prepared to support eliminating the filibuster in order to pass legislation important to him Sen. Angus King of Maine wrote an op-ed that ...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell dropped his demand that Democrats maintain the Senate filibuster — ending an early stalemate in the Senate that prevented party leaders from negotiating a ...

The federal government has been shut down for over a month, and political finger-pointing has persisted since it began. Republicans claim that they have passed clean continuing resolutions that get ...

President Joe Biden was dealt arguably the first loss of his presidency on Monday after word that two Democratic senators would oppose eliminating the Senate filibuster. By keeping the filibuster, ...

Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell was watching a basketball game on TV at around 10 p.m. on March 6 when he flipped the channel to C-Span for an update from the Senate floor. At 11:47 that ...

Why the former Senate majority leader decided to end the filibuster.

The Senate opened debate Wednesday on legislation confronting the rise of potential hate crimes against Asian Americans, a growing problem during the coronavirus crisis that will also test whether the ...

President Trump declared to reporters Friday that Republicans would not lose a future election if the party’s leadership in the Senate moved to eliminate the parliamentary procedure known as the ...

McConnell Says Impeachment Trial to Start Without Guarantee of Witnesses Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he has enough votes to set impeachment-trial rules that don’t guarantee new ...