US Senate News and Blog Posts

Senate confirmation hearings are underway. We assembled a bird's-eye view of the media coverage around Trump's Cabinet appointments.

The border crisis has been a one-sided discussion from the beginning, and, like any effective negotiators, Republicans keep asking for more.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is facing calls to step down from his leadership position over concerns about his health.

Few successful revolts throughout our history have begun in expected ways.

Incumbent Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock won reelection over Republican challenger Herschel Walker in Tuesday's 2022 U.S. Senate runoff election.

Democrats beat expectations in the 2022 midterm elections, but Republicans still took back the House of Representatives.

Republicans are expected to win a majority in the House of Representatives, but the Senate race is less clear.

One side or the other will ultimately have to win the majority, but not without going to great lengths to avoid it.

A bipartisan group of 16 senators is preparing a variety of proposals to update the Electoral Count Act, and CommonSense American, which prepares briefings on legislative ideas and encourages advocacy from its 43,000 members, released survey data this week on some of those concepts.

Schumer has spent the last several months somehow expecting Manchin and Sinema to do something other than drop the political equivalent of an anvil on his head.