After 25 years in the North Carolina Senate, Phil Berger started his final legislative session on Tuesday. Berger is Senate president pro tempore, a role that means he is leader of the Senate, elected ...

The Indiana Senate will forgo a two-week session to discuss mid-census redistricting because of a lack of votes, defying orders from the Trump Administration to change the state’s Congressional maps. ...

Nov. 8 (UPI) --The federal government will extend its record-long close to 40 days after the Senate adjourned with no vote held on a possible budget deal on Saturday. A small number of centrist ...

The Senate is in for a rare weekend session as the chamber remains in limbo while lawmakers try to find a way out of the government shutdown. Behind the scenes, appropriators are cooking up a trio of ...

WASHINGTON - Bipartisan talks in the U.S. Senate to end the federal shutdown have taken a positive turn, Senate Majority Leader John Thune said on Saturday, with lawmakers working on deals to ...

The bill would require a full hand recount of some of Georgia's high-profile elections and pushes back the deadline to find a ...

Carpe diem. If you’ve wondered why all of Washington buzzed so much this week about "pro forma" sessions in the House and Senate, here’s your chance to find out why. Come on now. Tempus fugit. There’s ...