During a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing in May, Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) misunderstood what indirect costs ...

During a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing in May, Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) grilled HHS Secretary RFK Jr. over the Trump Administration illegally withholding already appropriated funding for ...

The Senate is scheduled on Monday to reconvene at 3 p.m., as the shutdown of the federal government continues into its 34th ...

Jeffries disputed claims that Democrats' shutdown strategy isn't working as they continue to push to extend the expanded ...

A government-granted monopoly has allowed a pharmacy benefit manager owned by Cigna to overbill the Defense Department for years, in what amounts to an enormous cash transfer from American taxpayers ...

Republicans hold a 53-47 majority in the Senate. The filibuster requires most legislation to get 60 votes, which has allowed ...

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In 2022, the Senate approved bipartisan legislation on unanimous consent to make daylight standard time permanent ‒ and keep the later sunsets ‒ but it stalled in the House. The bill was co-sponsored ...

His own FBI often used "process crimes" to get at Trump-allied people, but now James Comey’s lawyers say congressional testimony at the center of ex-FBI director’s indictment was muddied by “confusing ...

Can 12 members of a state Senate committee speak for the entire General Assembly? That question was at the heart of Thursday’s hearing in the Supreme Court of Virginia in a case that could ...