Senate Panel Debates State Role in Clean Water Efforts
A Senate panel on Wednesday debated whether it should do away with 30-year-old groundwater standards, and what role states should play going forward in regulating contamination.
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Senate Confirms Judges for Kansas, Kentucky Courts
The Senate on Thursday confirmed two of President Donald Trump’s federal judicial nominees, one to a court in Kansas and another to a court in Kentucky.
Read moreSenate Panel Endorses Trump Pick for Bench in Hawaii
The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday unanimously approved President Donald Trump’s nominee for a position on a federal court in Hawaii.
Read moreZuckerberg Tells Congress Mistakes Were Made With Cambridge Analytica
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg apologized to a joint congressional committee Tuesday for his company’s allowing Cambridge Analytica, a data-mining firm affiliated with Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, to gather the personal information from 87 million users to try to influence elections.
Read moreSenate Confirms Boom for Federal Bench in Kentucky
The Senate on Tuesday overwhelmingly confirmed President Donald Trump’s nominee to a seat shared between two Kentucky federal courts.
Read moreGov. Rick Scott Announces Bid to Unseat Florida’s Democratic Senator
Florida Gov. Rick Scott announced his bid for U.S. Senate on Monday, seeking to capitalize on Florida’s job growth and calling for congressional term limits.
Read moreLongtime Hawaii Senator Daniel Akaka Dies at 93
Sen. Daniel Kahikina Akaka, the first Native Hawaiian elected to Congress, has died. He was 93.
Read moreCruz Challenger Adds to Campaign Cash Stockpile
The 2018 midterm election for a U.S. Senate seat in Texas is in full swing, and Democrat Beto O’Rourke raised the stakes Tuesday in his race against Republican Ted Cruz by announcing he has pulled in nearly $7 million so far this year.
Read moreTrump Signs $1.3 Trillion Spending Plan on ‘National Security’ Grounds
President Donald Trump signed a $1.3 trillion government spending bill Friday afternoon hours after his surprise declaration that he intended to veto it because it did not address DACA recipients and did not fully fund his proposed border wall.
Read moreMississippi Governor Names State’s First Female Senator
Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant on Wednesday appointed state agriculture commissioner Cindy Hyde-Smith to fill outgoing U.S. Senator Thad Cochran’s seat, who is retiring due to health issues.
Read moreSenators Press Trump Officials on Safeguarding 2018 Ballots
Members of the Senate Intelligence Committee criticized both the current and former heads of the Department of Homeland Security Wednesday for failing to issue stronger warnings about potential threats to the integrity of the 2018 midterm elections.
Read moreTrump Clears GOP Challenger for Embattled Nevada Senator
President Donald Trump has cleared a primary election path for one of the most vulnerable Senate Republicans running for re-election this year, persuading Nevada Sen. Dean Heller’s GOP opponent to drop out of the race and instead run for a House seat.
Read moreSenate Passes Rollback of Dodd-Frank Banking Law
Over objections from progressive Democrats who call it a gift to Wall Street, the Senate on Wednesday passed a financial reform bill that loosens the regulatory and reporting requirements of the Dodd-Frank Act – put in place for banks in the wake of the financial crisis.
Read moreSenate Hears From Parkland Survivors As House Moves School Safety Bill
Katherine Posada, a teacher at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, choked back tears Wednesday, her voice wavering as she recounted to the Senate Judiciary Committee the horror of hearing gunshots ring near her classroom as students and teachers fell dead inside of the Parkland, Florida, school exactly 30 days ago.
Read moreSenate Hopeful Takes Credit for Warren’s 2020 Dropout
An ex-Republican frontrunner for the U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts is taking credit for the surprise announcement by Senator Elizabeth Warren that she will not run for president in 2020.
Read moreJustice Official Under Fire at Senate for Public-Records Handling
Railing against the delays, unnecessary secrecy and buckets of black redaction ink that bedevil the public-records process, members of the U.S. Senate pressed government officials Tuesday about their efforts to improve compliance with the Freedom of Information Act.
Read moreMissouri’s Senate Democrat Lagging in Polls
A new poll shows Missouri’s Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill is running eight points behind her likely Republican challenger, giving her the third most-precarious status among Democratic incumbents in the U.S. Senate.
Read moreRepublicans Lining Up to Take on Kaine in Virginia
A new statewide poll shows President Donald Trump and his policies are deeply unpopular in Virginia, but that hasn’t stopped Republicans from entering the state’s 2018 Senate primary contest in hopes of taking on the popular Democratic incumbent, Tim Kaine.
Read moreSenate Told Security Clearance Fix Still a Long Way Off
Despite a crushing backlog of 710,000 unprocessed federal security clearances, a plan to break the logjam is still two years from being acted on, a Senate panel was told Wednesday.
Read moreSixth Circuit Nominee Declines to State Position on Roe
President Donald Trump’s selection to serve on the Sixth Circuit declined to say on Wednesday whether he believes the Supreme Court rightly decided Roe v. Wade, suggesting it would be inappropriate to weigh in on a case inspiring live issues that might come before his court.
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