During President Joe Biden’s final major address on the economy, he did what he does best: wax poetic about the old days of the United States Senate, the institution that defined him. He told an ...

Conservative commentator Megyn Kelly was seated near the front of a U.S. Senate hearing room Tuesday as former Fox News host ...

Mr. Rubio expressed views aligned with those of most senators who work on foreign policy, while taking care not to break from ...

The process started going downhill in 1987, when the infamous Robert Bork hearings turned ugly and personal. A Republican, Bork was a federal appeals court judge and former U.S. solicitor general who ...

The Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday began a busy week of Trump Cabinet confirmation hearings with the president-elect’s Pentagon nominee, Pete Hegseth, an Army veteran and former ...

A new Illinois General Assembly was sworn in for the next two years on Wednesday, with the House and Senate ceremonies taking two starkly different tones. The House inauguration ceremony, conducted in ...

On Thursday, attorney general nominee Pam Bondi returns for her second day before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Treasury ...

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