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Colonial Pipeline CEO Joseph Blount testified on Tuesday in front of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

A Senate investigation of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol has found broad government, military and law enforcement missteps surrounding the attack

All three of President Joe Biden’s nominees to the governing board of the U.S. Postal Service have been approved by the Senate.

Senate Republicans have blocked the creation of a bipartisan panel to study the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol

In a 54-35 vote on Friday, Senate Republicans blocked a measure which would create a bipartisan commission to investigate the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol Building that left five dead and nearly 150 officers injured.

Senate Republicans are poised to block the creation of a special commission to study the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, dashing hopes for a bipartisan panel amid a GOP push to put the violent insurrection by Donald Trump’s supporters behind them.

President Joe Biden was eating ice cream on Thursday in Cleveland, Ohio, when he was asked about Republican opposition to a bipartisan commission to investigate the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Senate Republicans are reviving negotiations over President Joe Biden’s sweeping investment plan

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., rebuked the House GOP following their vote to remove Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., from the party’s leadership after voicing opposition to former president Donald Trump’s stolen election claims.

The Senate is headed for a showdown over Democrats’ sweeping voting rights and election overhaul bill as a key committee plans to mark up the legislation Tuesday, NBC News reports.

The House passed the Washington, D.C. Admission Act on Thursday, approving a resolution which would admit the District of Columbia as a state and provide representation in Congress for D.C. residents.

On Monday, the Senate will begin to debate legislation addressing the rise of hate crimes against Asian Americans during the coronavirus pandemic.

The Senate has opened debate on legislation confronting the rise of potential hate crimes against Asian Americans

Georgia State Representative Park Cannon was arrested Thursday after knocking on Governor Brian Kemp’s office door to interrupt the signing of a controversial elections bill into law.

The U.S. Senate on Wednesday confirmed former Pennsylvania Health Secretary Rachel Levine to be the nation’s assistant secretary of health. She is the first openly transgender federal official to win Senate confirmation.

State Senate Republicans have killed a proposal to employ an emergency process to amend the Pennsylvania Constitution to give victims of child sexual abuse a two-year window in which to file civil lawsuits

The Republican Party didn’t want to begin the new year this way — with a spate of retirements in the evenly divided Senate ahead of the 2022 midterm elections

The U.S. Senate narrowly approved a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill Saturday. The bill will be sent to the House next week.

Senate leaders and moderate Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin have struck a deal over emergency jobless benefits, breaking a logjam that had stalled the party’s showpiece $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill