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On December 11, 2024, the U.S. Senate voted 49-50 against invoking cloture on President Biden’s nomination of Lauren McFerran ...

The two centrist senators handed Trump control of the National Labor Relations Board, dealing a blow to labor unions and ...

Kan., led their Republican colleagues on Wednesday in sending a bicameral letter to President Biden, urging him to reject a proposal before the United Nations’ Food ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats failed Wednesday to confirm a Democratic member of the National Labor Relations Board ...

Sens. Joe Manchin (I-W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) delivered their potentially final rebuke to outgoing Senate Majority ...

If it had been tied, Vice President Kamala Harris could have broken the deadlock. Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., did not vote.

Kristi Noem visited key senators Wednesday in her bid to become secretary of Homeland Security in the upcoming Trump ...

TOPEKA — A third Kansas Republican lawmaker is set to join a caucus supporting president-elect Donald Trump’s Department of ...

The ruling temporarily halts the merger, allowing the FTC to conduct administrative proceedings that will decide its final ...

Senate Republicans defeated a last-minute effort by outgoing Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y) to ensure a Democratic ...

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is on Capitol Hill meeting with Republican and Democratic members of the U.S. Senate ahead of ...