US Senate

The Senate on Monday confirmed the first appellate court judge of President Joe Biden’s tenure, elevating a judge with strong prospects of landing on the president’s short list should a Supreme Court vacancy arise.

The Senate on Thursday voted 81-16 to confirm Zahid Quraishi as U.S. District Judge for the District of New Jersey, making him the first Muslim American federal judge in the country’s history.

The Senate has overwhelmingly approved legislation aiming to boost semiconductor production in the U.S. The bill is a bid to protect economic and national security in the face of growing international competition, most notably from China.

House Republicans’ $400 billion transportation bill is the largest ever of its kind but invests far less than the White House and Senate GOP are considering.

Utah Sen. Mitt Romney was greeted by a barrage of insults and boos Saturday from a crowd of more than 2,100 delegates at the state Republican convention. Despite the boos, Utah Republicans rejected a motion to censure Romney over his votes to impeach former President Donald Trump, the Salt Lake Tribune reported. “I’m a man who says what he means,...

The top representative to Afghanistan told the Senate he doesn’t think the Afghan government will fall or Taliban will take over after U.S. troop withdrawal.

Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum drew criticism for comments last week that “there isn’t much Native American culture in American culture.”

The Senate passed legislation Thursday targeting anti-Asian hate crimes after an uptick of incidents during the Covid-19 pandemic

The U.S. Senate passed the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act, which would establish a process for federal and state law enforcement officials to investigate and document anti-Asian hate crimes.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren and billionaire Leon Cooperman have clashed many times.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Tuesday reiterated his call to legalize marijuana at the federal level.

Sen. Joe Manchin said he will not vote to eliminate or weaken the filibuster under any circumstances. His position likely brings to a close efforts to lower the barriers to passing parts of President Joe Biden’s agenda in Congress. The filibuster generally requires legislation to garner 60 votes in the Senate, which is evenly divided 50-50 among Democrats and Republicans….

Rep. Alcee Hastings of Florida died Tuesday at age 84 of pancreatic cancer. With his death, Democrats’ House majority narrowed even more.

Boston Mayor Marty Walsh is joining the Biden administration as the secretary of Labor after the U.S. Senate confirmed his nomination by a vote of 68-29 on Monday.

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell warned ominously of a “scorched earth” landscape if Democrats use their new majority to bring an end to the Senate filibuster in hopes of muscling legislation supporting President Joe Biden’s agenda past GOP opposition.

Perdue’s announcement abruptly ended speculation he stoked just one week earlier about a potential challenge to Sen. Raphael Warnock.

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz acknowledged on Thursday that he had traveled to Mexico for a family vacation this week, leaving his home state as thousands of constituents struggled without power or safe drinking water after a powerful winter storm.

After receiving widespread criticism for flying to Mexico while Texas faces a historic winter storm and power outages, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, was photographed checking in at the Cancun, Mexico, airport Thursday. “We had no heat and no power and yesterday,” he told NBC News. “My daughters asked if they could take a trip with some friends, and Heidi and...

The 97-year-old former U.S. senator and presidential candidate announced that he was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer.

Shelby is the longest-serving U.S. senator from Alabama. His retirement complicates GOP plans to retake the upper chamber of Congress next year.