Senate

Nevada’s ballot count is entering its final act and may determine which party controls the U.S. Senate. If Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto finishes ahead, her party will have a majority in the upper chamber thanks to Vice President Kamala Harris’ tiebreaking vote. If Republican challenger Adam Laxalt wins, the GOP will have a shot at picking up its 51st...

Katie Britt, who is a lawyer, was also the first woman to serve as president and CEO of the Business Council of Alabama.

After voters headed to the polls in Vermont, Rep. Peter Welch will succeed fellow Democrat Patrick Leahy in the Senate, NBC News projects, while Republican Gov. Phil Scott has been reelected. Leahy’s 48-year tenure made him the longest-serving member in the current U.S. Senate. Welch easily defeated little-known Republican challenger Gerald Malloy, a retired U.S. Army officer endorsed by...

Fergus Cullen, a Dover City Councilor and former head of the New Hampshire GOP, joins NBC10 Boston’s in-house experts Alison King and Sue O’Connell to discuss New Hampshire’s top contested races, starting with incumbent Democrat Sen. Maggie Hassan and Republican challenger Don Bolduc, followed by the first congressional race between incumbent Democrat Rep. Chris Pappas and Republican challenger Karoline...

Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, was discharged Friday from a Washington hospital to which he was admitted a day earlier “as a precaution.” his office said. According to David Carle, Leahy’s communication director and press secretary, the 82-year-old lawmaker was taken for tests after reporting that he was not feeling well. He remained in the hospital overnight for observation, but...

The $740 billion economic package from Democrats is made up of health care, climate change and deficit-reduction strategies.

The Senate has approved Democrats’ big election-year economic package. The legislation is less ambitious than President Joe Biden’s original domestic goals.

A divided Senate has voted to start debating Democrats’ election-year economic bill.

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Entertainer and activist Jon Stewart ripped the 41 Republican senators who voted against the PACT Act, blocking a bill that would provide resources for veterans exposed to toxic burn pits. “Cowards, all of them.”

The Senate has passed a bill that’s designed to encourage more semiconductor companies to build chip plants in the United States.

The House on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a bill tp protect same-sex and interracial marriages.

Senators on Beacon Hill will discuss on Wednesday how to protect providers as well as people who travel to Massachusetts for abortion care.

Highlights of the bipartisan gun violence bill the Senate approved Thursday and the House is expected to pass Friday

The deal, negotiated by Sens. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., and John Cornyn, R-Texas, could be the most significant federal action on gun violence in nearly three decades

Democrats’ first attempt at responding to the back-to-back mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde, Texas, has failed in the Senate.

Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee spoke on Wednesday about the tragedy in Uvalde, Texas.

Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy took to the Senate floor Tuesday to address politicians and beg for change after a mass shooting resulted in the death of over 19 kids and two teachers at an elementary school in Texas.

Democrats delivered pointed reactions after the Senate voted 49-51 against the Women’s Health Protection Act on Wednesday, rejecting nationally codifying abortion rights.

The Massachusetts State Senate will debate whether undocumented immigrants should be able to get drivers’ licenses in formal session Thursday morning.