Senates

In short, the tentacles of US tech firms are everywhere—vaccines, food, cancer research, psilocybin centers, criminal justice reform, homelessness—the list could reach the moon. (Speaking of the moon, how could we forget commercial…

WASHINGTON —  Americans who were educated on congressional proposals aimed at preventing another Jan. 6 attack prefer Senate reforms to a more far-reaching House bill, the University of Arizona’s National Institute for Civic Discourse…

Once Senate leaders opened the door to moving on a China competitiveness bill over the weekend, a bipartisan group of senators knew exactly what it had to do: use the slimmed-down package as a shell to stuff in as many priorities as…

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Senate Majority Leader Mike McCaffrey’s shock announcement that he will retire rather than seek re-election is causing upheaval in the General Assembly’s upper chamber, as other lawmakers jockey to be…

Placeholder while article actions loadSen. John Cornyn had just left a convention-center stage in Houston, where he had been mercilessly booed by conservative activists furious at his leading role in the most serious gun-law talks…

The small-group talks are fluid, and no final decision has been made. But if successful, such an idea would amount to the most substantive background checks expansion in decades. In the evenly divided Senate, any such proposal would…

The Senate on Thursday approved a $1.5 trillion omnibus funding bill, sending the measure boosting agency spending across government to President Biden’s desk just one day before the deadline for a shutdown. Congress approved the bill…

Two senators from states with little in common and at opposite poles of the country found each other this month: Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire and Mark Kelly of Arizona, who banded together to push a gasoline tax holiday.Their bill —…