Three Republicans voted with every Democrat against Trump’s controversial pick to lead the Pentagon, forcing Vance to step in ...

President Trump’s nominees for Health secretary, Commerce secretary, and Small Business Administration administrator will ...

When things actually happen on Capitol Hill, it’s frequently because senators find ways around the filibuster, the custom ...

Oregon bade farewell to the state’s longest-serving legislator in the Senate chamber that the late Peter Michael Coleman ...

The Senate education committee will hear public testimony on Senate Bill 2, which would establish education savings accounts.

The Senate confirmed Pete Hegseth as the nation's defense secretary late Friday in a dramatic tie-breaking vote, swatting ...

He also answered a round of questions from audience members. Doug Collins' nomination to head up the VA now heads to the Senate floor. The former U.S. congressman from Georgia and U.S. Air Force ...

Hours before the vote, Democrats took to the Senate floor to object. Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., said there were few Trump nominees as “dangerously and woefully unqualified as Hegseth.” ...

Follow live politics coverage McConnell's vote was ... sitting just off the Senate floor with his wife, parents and children. He showed his family the rotunda and could be overheard telling ...

The Senate struck a deal to hold a vote Saturday morning on Kristi Noem’s nomination to be the secretary of the Department of ...

The Senate Elections Committee is likely to consider more than a few election-related bills by a Feb. 4 deadline.

Why a corner of Providence's East Side has four names; and a debate over desktop flags and a dress code in the State House.