Senate

Tetra Images – Henryk Sadura/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Senate on Thursday night passed legislation to lift the nation’s debt ceiling and stave off what would’ve been an economically disastrous default days before Monday’s deadline. The final vote was 63-36. The bill will now go to President Joe Biden’s desk for his signature. Biden heralded […]

Tetra Images – Henryk Sadura/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A push led by Democrats to give more time for states to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, or ERA, failed on Thursday. The measure didn’t win the support needed to clear a key 60-vote threshold, with the final tally being 51 to 47. Senate Majority Leader Chuck […]

Mario Tama/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Senate on Wednesday voted to repeal two congressional authorizations from decades ago allowing the use of military force against Iraq, a country then falsely accused of stockpiling chemical and nuclear weapons and now a U.S. security partner in the Gulf region. The measure passed the Democrat-led Senate in a bipartisan […]

J.Castro/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Democrats in Congress are proposing additional aid for local first responders amid the ongoing conversation concerning rail safety in the wake of the February train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. In the time since the Feb. 3 derailment, lawmakers in Washington have focused on the state and federal response to the […]

J.Castro/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Norfolk Southern CEO Alan Shaw will face a Senate panel on Thursday as Washington lawmakers hold their first hearing on railroad safety about a month after a train carrying toxic chemicals derailed in East Palestine, Ohio. “I am deeply sorry for the impact this derailment has had on the people of […]

Getty Images/Richard Sharrocks (WASHINGTON, D.C.) — The Senate on Wednesday voted by a lopsided margin to halt much debated changes to Washington, D.C.’s, century-old criminal code, a move supported by President Joe Biden but criticized by some local activists. The Senate voted 81-14, with Georgia Democrat Raphael Warnock voting present, to shut down the proposed […]

Mint Images/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Senate intends to move forward with a vote this week to revoke much-debated changes to Washington, D.C.’s criminal code even as the city council’s chairman sought Monday to withdraw the original legislation so that it could be revised and resubmitted. The latest episode in the evolving controversy over the […]

Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Senate Republicans, joined by some Democratic colleagues, may soon send legislation to President Joe Biden’s desk to rescind changes to Washington, D.C.’s criminal code that were opposed by the district’s mayor but overwhelmingly supported by its city council. The Senate legislation, being led in the chamber by Sen. Bill Hagerty, […]

Ignatiev/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee wants more information about investigations overseen by the former head of the FBI New York Field Office Charles McGonigal. McGonigal, who was the special agent in charge of counterintelligence in the FBI’s New York Field Office, was arrested last month over his alleged […]