Eighty-one Senate restaurant workers had their jobs saved … for now.

Even a broken Senate is right twice a day.

The Founders saw no need for lawmakers to grill high court nominees. Time has only proven them correct.

A provision offering an additional $15 billion in pandemic aid fell out of an omnibus package last week, and Congress might not be able to pass a stand-alone bill.

Biden’s Supreme Court nominee met with Senate leaders on Wednesday, kicking off what Democrats hope will be a quick confirmation process.

Rarely has one state featured so many dramatic, implication-rich races in a midterm year. Can the Democrats—led by Stacey Abrams—pull this off?

Senator Mitt Romney’s child allowance proposal may offer a basis for future bipartisan negotiations.

Experts and politicians agree: The measure is in desperate need of reform, in order to avoid a repeat of 2020 in 2024.

The party is left mulling the way forward, given the intransigence of Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema.

The vice president has constitutional rights, too.

Long after it was an obvious need, the president is asking Democrats in the upper house of Congress to change their rules.

Democrats are pressing forward on measures intended to counter the GOP’s push for voter suppression, pledging to vote on a Senate rules change in the near future.

The lib-trolling Trump sycophant is at the top of most Democrats’ 2022 lists. He’s certainly beatable. But that’s what everyone thought in 2016, too.

Democrats from the president on down are furious at the senator. Unfortunately, though, they still need his vote, and they know it.

The Black Lung Disability Trust Fund is in danger of insolvency, which could affect industry veterans stricken with the disease.

The West Virginia senator has put one of the most effective policy proposals in the Build Back Better Act—and millions of kids—at risk.

The party may put Biden’s spending bill on the back burner and yank voting rights to the front of the line.

This is how the filibuster carve-out became the hot new thing in making up the rules as you go along.

Congress voted to raise the debt ceiling on Tuesday, but the dysfunction that drives this perennial crisis remains intact.

The Build Back Better Act includes a one-year extension of the child tax credit, but the clock is ticking.