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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky returned to the Senate on Monday for the first time since June 14, when he was hospitalized after a fall in his home.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky says he'll be voting in the Senate on Monday for the first time since June 14, when he was hospitalized for a fall in his home.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans on Capitol Hill are walking a cautious election-year line on the Iran war as the future of the conflict seems increasingly uncertain and polls show most Americans think the war isn't worth fighting.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Darline Graham, the sister of the late South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, was sworn in by the Senate on Tuesday afternoon -- filling the seat just three days after her brother's death.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Republicans returned to Washington on Monday with an uncertain agenda after the sudden death of prominent Republican Lindsey Graham, a committee chairman and key player who served as a crucial ally with President Donald Trump.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Republicans will return to Washington on Monday with an uncertain agenda after the sudden death of prominent Republican Lindsey Graham, a committee chairman and key player who served as a crucial ally with President Donald Trump.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Staff for Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell said last week that the senator is "continuing his recovery" in a hospital while the Senate is out of session. But his office has released no details about the former Republican leader's condition during his weekslong hospitalization or whether he will be at the Capitol when the Senate returns next week.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The relationship between President Donald Trump and Senate Republicans neared a breaking point this week as he upended their efforts to speedily confirm one of his own nominees and said he would not sign the renewal of a key surveillance law unless they agree to new terms.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A standoff between the White House and the Senate remains unresolved after Republican senators defiantly left town 10 days ago without passing legislation to fund President Donald Trump's immigration enforcement agencies.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Returning to the U.S. Capitol after a stinging primary reelection loss, Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana said Monday evening that he has no regrets about his "momentous" vote to convict President Donald Trump on impeachment charges five years ago.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A proposal to fund $1 billion in security additions for the White House campus and the president's new ballroom fails to meet procedural rules, according to the Senate parliamentarian, dealing a blow to Republican plans to include it as part of a bill to fund immigration enforcement agencies for the next three years.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate took the first steps in a new effort to reopen the Department of Homeland Security early Thursday, voting to adopt a budget plan that would fund ICE and Border Patrol over Democratic objections and sending it to the House.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate took the first steps in a new effort to reopen the Department of Homeland Security early Thursday, voting to adopt a budget plan that would fund ICE and Border Patrol over Democratic objections and sending it to the House.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate is working through the night as Republicans are trying to pass funding for two immigration enforcement agencies over Democratic objections and reopen the Department of Homeland Security.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- More than three dozen Democrats supported an effort by Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday to block arms sales to Israel, signaling a growing discontent in the party with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the wars in Gaza and Iran.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans who are pushing a strict proof-of-citizenship legislation have tried to frame the debate in simple terms -- if you have to show your photo identification to get on a plane or check out a book at the library, shouldn't you have to show one to vote?
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans are launching an unprecedented effort on Tuesday to hold the Senate floor and talk for days about a bill that they know won't pass -- an attempt to capture public attention on legislation requiring stricter voter registration rules as President Donald Trump pressures Congress to act before November's midterm elections.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Legislation that would require proof of U.S. citizenship for new voters has become a rallying cry for President Donald Trump, who claims that passage of the bill will "guarantee the midterms" for his Republican Party in November.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Majority Leader John Thune said Tuesday that the Senate will consider a bill to impose strict new proof-of-citizenship requirements in elections, but says "the votes aren't there" to pass it through a marathon talking filibuster sought by President Donald Trump.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Election-year legislation to impose strict new proof-of-citizenship requirements on voting appears stalled in the Senate, for now, despite President Donald Trump's call in his State of the Union speech that Republicans in Congress pass the bill "before anything else."
WASHINGTON (AP) -- EDITOR'S NOTE -- This is an exclusive excerpt adapted from "Storm at the Capitol: An Oral History of January 6th" by Associated Press reporter Mary Clare Jalonick. The book draws on personal interviews by the author, testimony, court documents and other public sources to compile a definitive account of the hours leading up to, during, and just...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate on Thursday rejected legislation to extend Affordable Care Act tax credits, essentially guaranteeing that millions of Americans will see a steep rise in costs at the beginning of the year.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate is poised on Thursday to reject legislation to extend Affordable Care Act tax credits for millions of Americans, a potentially unceremonious end to a monthslong Democratic effort to prevent the COVID-era subsidies from expiring on Jan. 1.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said Monday that three of his New York offices were targeted with emailed bomb threats from an email address alleging the "2020 election was rigged."
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A health care proposal circulated by the White House in recent days is running into the reality of Republican divisions on the issue -- a familiar struggle for a party that has been trying to scrap or overhaul the Affordable Care Act for the past 15 years.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer led his caucus, and the country, into a record-breaking government shutdown and voted against reopening when a small group of his members defected. But there are still calls for him to step aside from Democrats who think he should have fought harder.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer is making a new offer to reopen the government on Friday as Republicans have refused to negotiate on their demands to extend health care subsidies.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Majority Leader John Thune pleaded with colleagues on Friday to "end these weeks of misery" as many Democrats pledged to vote against reopening the government until President Donald Trump and Republican leaders negotiate with them on an extension of health care benefits.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Republicans are moving to try to end the government shutdown by preparing a new bipartisan package of spending bills and daring Democrats to vote for it, but it was unclear if their plan would work.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government shutdown is poised to become the longest ever this week as the impasse between Democrats and Republicans has dragged into a new month. Millions of people could lose food aid benefits, health care subsidies are set to expire and there are few real talks between the parties over how to end it.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump says he "won't be extorted" by Democrats to reopen the government, making clear that he has no plans to negotiate as the government shutdown will soon enter its sixth week.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans and Democrats remained at a stalemate on the government shutdown over the weekend as it headed into its sixth week, with food aid potentially delayed or suspended for millions of Americans and President Donald Trump pushing GOP leaders to change Senate rules to end it.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- As the government shutdown enters its fourth week, Senate Republicans are headed to the White House on Tuesday -- not for urgent talks on how to end it, but for a display of unity with President Donald Trump as they refuse to negotiate on any Democratic demands.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- As the government shutdown enters its fourth week, Senate Republicans are headed to the White House on Tuesday -- not for urgent talks on how to end it, but for a display of unity with President Donald Trump as they refuse to negotiate on any Democratic demands.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democrats believe health care is an issue that resonates with a majority of Americans as they demand an extension of subsidies in exchange for their votes to reopen the shuttered U.S. government. But it is also one of the most intractable issues in Congress -- and a real compromise amid the government shutdown will not likely be...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Democrats kept their promise to reject any Republican spending bill that didn't extend or restore health care benefits, choosing instead to force a government shutdown. Now they have to figure out how to get out of it.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate has confirmed 48 of President Donald Trump's nominees at once, voting for the first time under new rules to begin clearing a backlog of executive branch positions that had been delayed by Democrats.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congress is expected to allow President Donald Trump's temporary takeover of Washington's police department to expire next week as the 30-day limit comes to an end and Mayor Muriel Bowser pledges to maintain close coordination with federal law enforcement.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican senators say they are prepared to change the chamber's rules to get around the Democratic blockade of President Donald Trump's nominees and are discussing a proposal to make it easier to confirm multiple nominees at once.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a rare public outburst on the Senate floor Tuesday, New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker took his Democratic colleagues to task, declaring his party "needs a wake-up call!"
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate narrowly voted on Tuesday to begin considering the nomination of former Trump lawyer Emil Bove for a lifetime appointment as a federal appeals court judge, with at least one Republican opposed and Democrats vowing to try to slow his confirmation.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate has confirmed President Donald Trump's first judicial pick of his second term, voting to approve Whitney Hermandorfer as a judge for the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House has passed the massive tax and spending cuts package that President Donald Trump calls "beautiful," getting it to his desk a day before the July 4 deadline that he had set.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- When videos first rocketed around the Internet Thursday afternoon showing security officers forcibly removing Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla from a press conference with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in California, senators in both parties were already gathered together for a long series of votes.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen says Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was wrongly deported, told him he has been moved from the notorious Salvadoran prison known as CECOT to a detention center with better conditions.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen was flying home from El Salvador on Friday after meeting with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was wrongly deported there by the Trump administration. It's unclear what will happen next in the case.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate confirmed retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan "Razin" Caine to become the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Friday, filling the position almost two months after President Donald Trump fired his predecessor.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate confirmed retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan "Razin" Caine to become the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Friday, filling the position almost two months after President Donald Trump fired his predecessor.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer is postponing several planned events this week to promote his new book, " Antisemitism in America: A Warning," after some liberal groups had planned to stage protests.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Democrats were grim Friday as they left Washington after a brutal 10-week stretch that consistently showed the limits of their power in the minority -- and culminated with a deeply personal rupture over how to best counter President Donald Trump.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump took the oath of office on Monday inside a tightly packed Capitol Rotunda, where he was surrounded by a very different Washington than he was eight years ago.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- When President-elect Donald Trump takes the oath of office on Monday inside a tightly packed Capitol Rotunda, he will be surrounded by a very different Washington than he was eight years ago.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Newly in the minority, Democrats voted with Republicans on Thursday to advance legislation that would require federal authorities to detain unauthorized immigrants who have been accused of certain crimes -- signaling that they will try and find spots to work with President-elect Donald Trump while simultaneously trying to block much of his agenda.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Newly in the minority, Democrats say they will vote with Republicans to advance legislation that would require federal authorities to detain unauthorized immigrants who have been accused of certain crimes -- one of President-elect Donald Trump's priorities as he assumes office later this month.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Some lawmakers emotionally recalled the violence. Others said they'd rather move on. And some said it wasn't violent at all.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- New Senate Majority Leader John Thune is kicking off the new session with a promise to preserve the filibuster, saying in his first floor speech as leader that his priority will be to "ensure the Senate stays the Senate."
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The fate of President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet is still unclear after Republican senators spent much of December carefully dodging questions about Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 's views on vaccines, accusations of sexual misconduct against Pete Hegseth and Tulsi Gabbard's 2017 meeting with then-President Bashar Assad of Syria.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell is challenging President-elect Donald Trump to reject the isolationist voices within their party and build his foreign policy around military strength, arguing that if the U.S. retreats from global engagement, "its enemies will be only too happy to fill the void."
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been hospitalized after she "sustained an injury" during an official engagement in Luxembourg, according to a spokesman.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell is still suffering from the effects of a fall in the Senate earlier this week and is missing votes on Thursday due to leg stiffness, according to his office.