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Senate Majority Leader, Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., react to news that the Article of Impeachment against former President Donald Trump will be delivered to the Senate on Monday.

Congress has sent President Biden the first bill that he’ll sign into law, a measure to allow retired Gen. Lloyd Austin as President Joe Biden’s secretary of defense

Sen. Richard Burr says the Justice Department has told him it will not prosecute him over stock sales made during the coronavirus pandemic, ending an insider trading investigation that led him to at least temporarily step aside from a powerful committee chairmanship last year.

One week after the attacks on the U.S. Capitol – Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said that the earliest the Senate could take up the articles of impeachment would be Jan. 19, unless all 100 senators agree to come back early. McConnell, R-Ky., told his colleagues Wednesday afternoon that he remains undecided whether he’ll vote to convict President Donald Trump.

Wins this week in Georgia by Democrats Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff gave their party an edge in the U.S. Senate, which means Vermont’s senior senator will gain a powerful leadership role. “I want to start a new chapter for America,” vowed Democrat Patrick Leahy of Vermont. The longest-serving member of the incoming majority party in the U.S. Senate...

Vermont will gain some big power in Washington, D.C., this month when Democrat Sen. Patrick Leahy will take over a leadership role in the U.S. Senate.

Democrats will control both the White House and Congress for the first time since the first half of President Barack Obama’s first term.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., addresses the Senate after rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol building.

Vice President Mike Pence addressed the Senate on Wednesday night after rioters stormed the Capitol building.

Democrats will have unified control of Capitol Hill and the White House for at least the first two years of President-elect Joe Biden’s term.

Congress has overridden President Donald Trump’s veto of a defense policy bill, a first by lawmakers since he took office nearly four years ago

Gov. Gavin Newsom is set to fill the U.S. Senate being vacated by Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, with California’s Secretary of State Alex Padilla.

Robert Garcia remembers watching on television as then-San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom ordered the county to issue same-sex marriage licenses in 2004. A young gay man in his 20s at the time, Garcia called it a “light switch” that ignited his passion for public service. Now, Garcia, 43, mayor of Long Beach, California, is one of four people Newsom, now…

President-elect Joe Biden nominated former Secretary of State John Kerry to be special presidential envoy for climate. Here are five things to know about Kerry.

The Florida Republican’s diagnosis comes three days after Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, announced his own coronavirus diagnosis.

If Republicans are able to hold onto their majority in the U.S. Senate, the remarkable staying power of Susan Collins will be a big reason why. Collins defied prognostications of doom from Washington’s consultant class to score perhaps the most unexpected victory of the 2020 cycle, hanging a lopsided loss on a Democratic challenger despite a pile of outside...

Democrat Cal Cunningham has conceded to incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis in North Carolina

Senators chose party leaders Tuesday with few changes at the top

Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s Republican secretary of state, sharply criticized two the state’s two Republican senators on Monday after the lawmakers called on him to resign, citing his “failures,” without citing evidence, of his management of the election, NBC News reports.

U.S. Rep. Richard Neal of Massachusetts, the powerful chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, held off Democratic challenger Alex Morse in Tuesday’s primary after an acrimonious campaign that included allegations of sexual misconduct leveled at his younger opponent. The contest was one of four in Massachusetts where U.S. House candidates were competing Tuesday for the chance to...