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Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W. Va., on Monday said that the House should vote on the $1 trillion infrastructure package instead of focusing solely on President Joe Biden’s broader $1.75 trillion domestic policy proposal.

The bill now goes to the House of Representatives, which is expected to green-light the bill.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., announced Thursday morning that lawmakers have reached an agreement on a short-term debt ceiling increase, temporarily averting a government default.

Former Facebook employee Frances Haugen testified on Tuesday about the social media company.

The 30-day funding legislation will keep federal surface transportation workers on government payrolls and avoid shutdowns and furloughs at the Department of Transportation.

Congress passed the bill earlier Thursday, hours before a looming midnight deadline.

Gen. Mark Milley defended calls he made to assure his Chinese counterpart that the U.S. wasn’t going to attack in the final months of Donald Trump’s presidency, telling a Senate panel Tuesday that senior Trump officials were aware.

Sen. Mitchell McConnell, R-Ky., said during a speech on the Senate floor he has received a COVID vaccine booster shot.

The Senate’s nonpartisan parliamentarian says Democrats can’t use their $3.5 trillion package bolstering social and climate programs to give millions of immigrants a chance to become citizens

Sarah Klein was first abused by Larry Nassar in 1988 when she was just 8 years old. Today she is a pillar of support for the younger victims of the USA Gymnastics doctor’s abuse. They include Olympians Simone Biles and McKayla Maroney, who testified before the U.S. Senate on Wednesday about failures by the Department of Justice and FBI to...

FBI Director Christopher Wray issued an apology while testifying on Wednesday about the FBI’s role in investigating Larry Nassar.

Former NFL star Herschel Walker has filed paperwork to run for Senate as a Republican in Georgia.

Democrats are renewing their push to enact their marquee elections bill

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is conceding that Democrats face a tough pathway to delivering a $3.5 trillion package for family, health and environment programs to President Joe Biden’s desk

The Senate passed the first phase of Biden’s “Build Back Better” plan in a 69-30 vote Tuesday.

The Senate approved the plan Tuesday with a 69-30 vote.

The bill includes money to rebuild roads and bridges, shore up coastlines against climate change, protect public utility systems from cyberattacks and modernize the electric grid. Public transit gets a boost, as do airports and freight rail. Most lead drinking water pipes in America could be replaced.

Senate Democrats have unwrapped a budget resolution envisioning a $3.5 trillion, 10-year cascade of federal resources for family support, health and education programs

U.S. senators from both parties have hoisted the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package over another procedural hurdle

The Senate has moved closer to passing a $1 trillion infrastructure package after lawmakers from both parties came together and voted on Saturday to clear a key procedural hurdle.