Several Senate Democrats joined almost every Republican to confirm Lori Chavez-DeRemer, 67-32, as Labor secretary on Monday. Chavez-DeRemer, a former one-term Republican House member from Oregon ...

The showdown between House and Senate Republicans is escalating as the two groups barrel ahead with their contrasting strategies to pass President Trump’s legislative agenda — with the upper ...

The Senate Banking Committee approved Thursday Jonathan McKernan’s nomination to be director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau along party lines, 13-11. The vote came a week after ...

Senate Democrats faced backlash on Monday after the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act failed to garner the votes it needed to break the filibuster. Republicans needed 60 votes but only ...

In the Senate, though, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has more plentiful options for stalling President Donald Trump’s agenda — and he’s barely used any. There is another ...

The Senate GOP on Tuesday officially teed up a vote on its budget resolution for later this week in a bid to enact a portion of President Trump’s agenda. Senators voted 50-47 to kick off ...

The Senate is scheduled to vote Monday on whether to confirm Lori Chavez-DeRemer as U.S. labor secretary, a Cabinet position that would put her in charge of enforcing federally mandated worker ...

However, in a Senate procedural vote on Monday, every single voting Democrat blocked the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act from moving on to a final vote on passage. All voting ...

ABUJA, Nigeria — The Nigerian Senate has suspended a female senator after she accused its presiding officer of sexual assault. The Senate said Saturday that the suspension announced on Thursday ...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called the benefits system is "at risk." Senate Democratic leaders stood in support of Social Security benefits on Monday in the wake of the Social Security ...

Washington — Senate Majority Leader John Thune announced Tuesday that the Senate will move forward with a vote on a budget proposal to begin enacting President Trump's agenda this week ...

The Senate confirmed Linda McMahon to lead the Education Department by a party-line vote of 51 to 45. Needed for confirmation Needed for confirmation Note: Confirmation requires a simple majority ...