Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s (R-S.D.) support for keeping the 60-vote threshold for passing legislation through the ...

Suspending or eliminating the Senate’s current defining feature — the filibuster — is something no Republican Senate leader ...

A proposed hemp ban that threatens to end the sale of scores of popular THC gummies, vapes and even beverages is tucked into ...

SPRINGFIELD — Saying that he could not justify “playing with other people's lives” as millions of Americans went without ...

The Washington Post’s essential guide to power and influence in D.C. The party behind a shutdown rarely gets what it wants.

The Senate is drawing closer to a vote on legislation to end the government shutdown. Senators began debate on the bill just ...

The Senate on Monday cleared a key procedural hurdle toward green-lighting a package to reopen the government, the first of a series of planned back-to-back votes. Senators voted 60-40 to grease ...

I think that is the crudest form of political weapon that I can imagine — and that's why I came to the conclusion that we had ...

U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham says he will pursue legal action against the DOJ after a new provision in Wednesday’s shutdown deal ...