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Aug 23, 2019
Readers react skeptically to the majority leader's Op-Ed defending the filibuster. Also: Planned Parenthood and a new Trump administration rule.
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Aug 23, 2019
With the state gripped by the possibility of another Kennedy campaigning for Senate, the incumbent is not backing down: "Oh, I'm running."
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Aug 23, 2019
Democracy isn't just about majority rule.
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Aug 22, 2019
With his announcement on Thursday, Mr. Hickenlooper instantly became one of the Democrats' best hopes in their quest to retake the Senate next year.
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Aug 22, 2019
Democrats who want to change Senate rules for temporary political gain will rue the day, as they have before.
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Aug 21, 2019
Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, is caught between some members of his party opposing gun legislation and others working with Democrats.
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Aug 21, 2019
Many Republicans hope the secretary of state, who met with prominent members of the party on Tuesday, will run for the Senate from Kansas.
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Aug 20, 2019
In an address to the Senate in Rome, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte of Italy said he would offer his resignation to the president.
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Aug 20, 2019
We asked the Democratic presidential candidate how her decision to call for the resignation of a Senate colleague may have affected her campaign and her party.
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Aug 19, 2019
Readers react to an Op-Ed by former Senator Harry Reid calling for an end to the filibuster.
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Aug 17, 2019
Mr. Kennedy, the grandson of Robert F. Kennedy, paid for a poll last month to test his prospects against Mr. Markey, a Democratic official said.
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Aug 16, 2019
Several high-profile Democrats would rather hold on to their low-polling presidential campaigns instead of running for the Senate. Has it lost its appeal?
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Aug 16, 2019
Several high-profile Democrats would rather hold on to their low-polling presidential campaigns instead of running for the Senate. Has it lost its appeal?
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Aug 15, 2019
Mr. Hickenlooper's presidential campaign failed to gain traction. He is eyeing the Republican-held Senate seat in Colorado, a major target for Democrats.
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Aug 15, 2019
Mr. Hickenlooper has been seriously considering a run for the Republican-held Senate seat in Colorado, a major target for Democrats.
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Aug 14, 2019
The president is facing pushback from gun rights advocates and some of his advisers. But he could follow his pattern of abruptly dropping the idea of doing something after talking about it for weeks.
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Aug 13, 2019
Mr. Hickenlooper, who has remained near the bottom of the Democratic field, is in discussions to challenge Colorado's Republican senator, Cory Gardner.
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Aug 13, 2019
New rules will weaken the landmark law intended to save plants and animals on the brink.
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Aug 13, 2019
Six prominent Democrats urge the Senate leader, Mitch McConnell, to take up bills the House already passed to extend background checks.
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Aug 12, 2019
But with Republicans in charge of the Senate and President Trump in the White House, an assault weapons ban has little chance of being signed into law before 2021.
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Aug 12, 2019
To save our country's future, Democrats must abolish this arcane Senate rule.
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Aug 12, 2019
The mothers of Heather Heyer and Khalid Jabara want federal legislation to improve reporting.
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Aug 12, 2019
When will believers in global warming come out?
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Aug 11, 2019
Congress has the authority to limit the president's reckless endangerment of the economy.
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Aug 11, 2019
The presidential candidate is back in the spotlight after a tragedy in a city that is core to his personal and political identity.
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Aug 09, 2019
Whether the president's support is real or another momentary reversal will determine if Congress passes the first new federal gun control measures in years.
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Aug 08, 2019
The Senate majority leader did not back the legislation, but he said the chamber would consider it when lawmakers come back into session next month.
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Aug 08, 2019
The president is consulting allies about supporting expanded background checks. Mitch McConnell said the idea would be "front and center" when the Senate reconvenes.
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Aug 08, 2019
The president is consulting allies about supporting expanded background checks. Mitch McConnell said the idea would be "front and center" when the Senate reconvenes.
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Aug 08, 2019
The campaign posted a video of people making violent threats against the majority leader in front of his Louisville home. Twitter said the video violated its policy.
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Aug 08, 2019
The campaign posted a video of people making violent threats against the majority leader. Twitter said the video violated its policy, but restored the tweet after a review.
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Aug 07, 2019
Congress can resolve an enduring problem: the lack of federal funding for research on guns.
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Aug 07, 2019
The Office of Management and Budget is reviewing the use of the money, suggesting that it could cut the funding entirely.
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Aug 06, 2019
Senators Richard Durbin and Tammy Duckworth wrote a letter to Commissioner Rob Manfred urging him to release data on which seats at ballparks are most vulnerable to dangerous line drives.
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Aug 06, 2019
In areas like Sugar Land, Tex., a burgeoning multiethnic population and suburbanites repelled by President Trump are giving Democrats more hope.
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Aug 06, 2019
Republicans, seeking a response to this weekend's massacres, are coalescing around such bills to help law enforcement take guns from those who pose an imminent danger.
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Aug 05, 2019
After President Trump stopped short of a broad legislative response to the weekend's massacres, lawmakers in both parties said Mr. McConnell held the key.
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Aug 05, 2019
Mr. McConnell fractured his shoulder while Mr. Paul had surgery to have part of his lung removed. Both senators are recovering in their home state of Kentucky, their teams said.
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Aug 05, 2019
Mr. McConnell fractured his shoulder while Mr. Paul had surgery to have part of his lung removed. Both senators are recovering in their home state of Kentucky, their teams said.
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Aug 05, 2019
Temps and contractors outnumber permanent employees at the company, allowing it to maintain labor flexibility and save money.
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Aug 04, 2019
The gun lobby has structural advantages and a Senate aligned with its stance. But activists have increased financing and grass-roots energy as they pursue their cause.
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Aug 03, 2019
The Senate, once known as "the world's greatest deliberative body," is operating as Senator Mitch McConnell would like: as an approval factory for President Trump's nominees.
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Aug 01, 2019
He's winning the debates and he's great on paper. When will he catch on?
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Aug 01, 2019
The Senate gave final approval to a two-year budget deal that would lift the federal debt limit and raise spending by hundreds of billions of dollars.
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Jul 31, 2019
The former vice president had a lot to prove. To those who had written him off after the first debate, he had this to say: "malarkey."
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Jul 31, 2019
Senators voted largely along party lines to confirm President Trump's nominee, who became the American ambassador to Canada in 2017.
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Jul 31, 2019
Senators voted largely along party lines to confirm Ms. Craft, who became the American ambassador to Canada in 2017.
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Jul 31, 2019
At a Senate committee hearing Wednesday, officials from the Federal Aviation Administration defended their approval of the 737 Max and their response to two fatal crashes.
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Jul 31, 2019
As the Democratic senator emerges as a leading presidential contender, her vision for the country has remained difficult to define.
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Jul 31, 2019
In an extended interview, the California senator explains why she thinks litmus-test questions aren't helpful and how she is approaching this campaign.
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Jul 30, 2019
If confirmed as director of national intelligence, would John Ratcliffe be more loyal to the truth or to the president?
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Jul 30, 2019
Aides revised old claims about Representative John Ratcliffe's role in prosecuting a prominent terrorism case.
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Jul 30, 2019
Mr. McConnell, the Senate leader, has typically embraced nasty nicknames by critics. But criticism of his role in blocking election measures has taken hold in an unusual way.
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Jul 30, 2019
Gen. John E. Hyten, who has been nominated to be the Pentagon's No. 2 military official, said he did not sexually assault a subordinate colonel at the United States Strategic Command.
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Jul 30, 2019
Gen. John E. Hyten, who has been nominated to be the Pentagon's vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs, said he did not sexually assault a subordinate colonel at the United States Strategic Command.
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Jul 30, 2019
A national campaign has exposed each and every one of his weaknesses. Is there any chance of a comeback?
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Jul 29, 2019
The Senate failed to override the president's vetoes on a series of bipartisan measures that would have blocked arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
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Jul 29, 2019
Democrats and former officials also expressed concern that the pick, Representative John Ratcliffe, will politicize what is supposed to be a nonpartisan job.
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Jul 29, 2019
Former officials expressed concern that the president's pick, Representative John Ratcliffe, will politicize what is supposed to be a nonpartisan job.
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Jul 29, 2019
The Democratic candidate for president and the powerful House freshman are building on the Green New Deal with a plan to prioritize low-income communities.
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Jul 29, 2019
White supremacy has its own peculiar logic, to which the president is peculiarly attuned.
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Jul 27, 2019
Robert Mueller sounded the alarm about threats to the nation's democracy, but lawmakers keep playing politics.
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Jul 27, 2019
President Trump spends more time working the phones to Capitol Hill than his recent predecessors, which has paid off in his relationships with Republicans in Congress.
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Jul 26, 2019
An Army colonel described being sexually assaulted in her hotel room at a defense forum by an Air Force general who is in line to be the next vice chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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Jul 26, 2019
It's a difficult one. But Democrats got it wrong.
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Jul 25, 2019
A Senate panel documented an effort largely undetected by state and federal officials at the time. But its report was so heavily redacted that key lessons for 2020 were blacked out.
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Jul 25, 2019
A Senate panel documented an effort largely undetected by state and federal officials at the time. But its report was so heavily redacted that key lessons for 2020 were blacked out.
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Jul 25, 2019
The Senate Intelligence Committee said all 50 states were targeted by Russia in 2016. But its report was so heavily redacted that key lessons for 2020 were blacked out.
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Jul 25, 2019
The social network's new ad library is so flawed, researchers say, that it is effectively useless as a way to track political messaging.
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Jul 25, 2019
The wealth of some tech giants is built on harvesting and commercializing personal data. Advocates for a new deal on data are gaining momentum.
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Jul 24, 2019
Lawmakers had tried to send an angry message to the president over his attempts to bypass them, but they do not expect to have the votes to override the veto.
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Jul 23, 2019
It's time to end the damaging brinkmanship over the debt ceiling.
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Jul 23, 2019
Congress should not have to rely on manufactured crises to do the basic work of managing the federal budget.
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Jul 23, 2019
Congress gave final approval to legislation that would extend lifetime compensation to emergency workers who became ill after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
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Jul 23, 2019
Mr. Esper, a former soldier and lobbyist for Raytheon, takes over at the Pentagon after its longest period without a permanent leader.
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Jul 23, 2019
"There is no prize for someone who tries to hold accountable a powerful man who is good at his day job," she says after Mr. Franken spoke out in a New Yorker article.
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Jul 22, 2019
But Americans could still learn a thing or two from the former special counsel's testimony.
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Jul 22, 2019
For those who have read it, the special counsel's report speaks for itself. For those who haven't, he can speak for it in Congress.
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Jul 22, 2019
The deal, which must be passed by Congress and signed by the president, would stop a potential debt default and avoid automatic spending cuts. But it would also increase the surging deficit.
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Jul 22, 2019
He is using it to quash the opposition in the Philippines. I should know: I'm one of his victims.
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Jul 21, 2019
Writing a round robin letter lets senators make their views public when they can't debate or vote on a resolution.
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Jul 21, 2019
Robert S. Mueller III, the former special counsel, will be testifying on Capitol Hill. Getting an answer out of him is sometimes tricky, as past hearings have shown.
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Jul 19, 2019
A newly created post will oversee intelligence collection and analysis on foreign influence campaigns and efforts to attack election infrastructure.
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Jul 19, 2019
Striking Amazon employees complained about how robots changed their jobs, but the company may help them think differently.
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Jul 17, 2019
I was lucky enough to see firsthand how he embodied judicial, moral and personal independence.
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Jul 17, 2019
Pressure from business groups — and the triumph of Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky over his junior partner, Rand Paul — spurred lawmakers to approve updates to the international treaties.
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Jul 16, 2019
Members of the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday raised broad concerns about its Libra effort, which the company introduced last month.
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Jul 16, 2019
Lawmakers raised broad concerns about the company's Libra effort at a Senate hearing on Tuesday.
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Jul 15, 2019
The scant condemnation of the president's remarks on four Democratic congresswomen reflected his tightening stranglehold on lawmakers of his party, and a collective eye on 2020.
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Jul 14, 2019
A new bill would give nannies, house cleaners and home care workers long overdue protections.
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Jul 11, 2019
Gen. Mark A. Milley's comments came during his Senate confirmation hearing for chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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Jul 11, 2019
The use of L.L.C.s and shell corporations to hide the true source of funds has been an issue for the United States for more than a decade. A bill in Congress seeks to address it.
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Jul 10, 2019
The C.I.A. wants the law to protect the identities of more covert officers and informants, citing its defunct torture program and groups like WikiLeaks.
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Jul 10, 2019
The fund-raising haul was the most ever in the first 24 hours of a Senate campaign. But Mr. McConnell is a formidable fund-raiser as well.
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Jul 10, 2019
The fund-raising haul was the most ever in the first 24 hours of a Senate campaign. But her opponent, Mitch McConnell, is a formidable fund-raiser as well.
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Jul 10, 2019
The fund-raising haul was the most ever in the first 24 hours of a Senate campaign. Mr. McConnell is a formidable fund-raiser as well, who spent more than $30 million in his 2014 re-election campaign.
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Jul 10, 2019
Even if Democrats win the White House and the Senate in 2020, effectively combating climate change might require the elimination of the Senate filibuster.
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Jul 09, 2019
The sales, along with a pending visit to the United States by Taiwan's president, are likely to put further strain on Washington's relationship with Beijing.
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Jul 09, 2019
The sales, along with a pending visit to the United States by Taiwan's president, are likely to put further strain on Washington's relationship with Beijing.
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Jul 08, 2019
Mr. Kobach, who was the Republican nominee for governor last year, has most recently championed an effort to build a border wall with private funding.
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