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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...

Looming over the Senate Democrats this year is a decision that could fundamentally change Congress as it has operated for decades.

Mike Gravel, a former U.S. senator from Alaska who read the Pentagon Papers into the Congressional Record and later ran for president twice, has died.

The Democrats’ expansive elections and voting bill is all but certain to be rejected in a key Senate test vote

In a key Senate vote, Republicans voted to block debate on the For the People Act, an elections and voting bill from Democratic legislators.

The Senate and House have passed a bill to make Juneteenth, the anniversary of the end of slavery in the United States, a federal holiday.

Colonial Pipeline CEO Joseph Blount testified on Tuesday in front of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

A Senate investigation of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol has found broad government, military and law enforcement missteps surrounding the attack

All three of President Joe Biden’s nominees to the governing board of the U.S. Postal Service have been approved by the Senate.

Senate Republicans have blocked the creation of a bipartisan panel to study the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol

In a 54-35 vote on Friday, Senate Republicans blocked a measure which would create a bipartisan commission to investigate the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol Building that left five dead and nearly 150 officers injured.

Senate Republicans are poised to block the creation of a special commission to study the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, dashing hopes for a bipartisan panel amid a GOP push to put the violent insurrection by Donald Trump’s supporters behind them.

President Joe Biden was eating ice cream on Thursday in Cleveland, Ohio, when he was asked about Republican opposition to a bipartisan commission to investigate the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Senate Republicans are reviving negotiations over President Joe Biden’s sweeping investment plan

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., rebuked the House GOP following their vote to remove Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., from the party’s leadership after voicing opposition to former president Donald Trump’s stolen election claims.

The Senate is headed for a showdown over Democrats’ sweeping voting rights and election overhaul bill as a key committee plans to mark up the legislation Tuesday, NBC News reports.

The House passed the Washington, D.C. Admission Act on Thursday, approving a resolution which would admit the District of Columbia as a state and provide representation in Congress for D.C. residents.

On Monday, the Senate will begin to debate legislation addressing the rise of hate crimes against Asian Americans during the coronavirus pandemic.

The Senate has opened debate on legislation confronting the rise of potential hate crimes against Asian Americans