The Senate Finance Committee voted 14-9 Tuesday to pass America’s Healthy Future Act of 2009. The committee’s approval marks a critical turning point for...

Massachusetts law originally allowed for the governor to make an appoint to a vacant Senate seat until the next scheduled election. But in 2004 with the state’s...

Virginia’s senior Senator Jim Webb, a fmr. Secretary of the Navy, has secured the release of an American, John Yettaw, held in Myanmar by the ruling junta. Mr....

The Democrats are riding high right now. The biggest majority in the House that any party has seen for a long time, a filibuster proof one in the Senate and a popular...

For the first time since 1968, a party will command a filibuster proof majority in the Senate. After several months of recounts and court battles, Democratic...

Just hours ago, the governor that was attempting to sell Barrack Obama’s senate seat has been impeached by the House. This is just the first step in two steps....

The New York Daily News, a tabloid paper, has estimated that Caroline Kennedy is worth around $100 million. The former First Daughter is seeking Hillary...

Former comedian and Democratic Minnesota senatorial candidate Al Franken has official taken a narrow lead over Republican incumbent Norm Coleman after the recount...

Former comedian and current Democratic senatorial candidate Al Franken looks set to win Minnesota’s Senate seat against Republican incumbent Norm Coleman. The...

The Senate on Thursday night abandoned efforts to fashion a government rescue of the American automobile industry, as Senate Republicans refused to support a bill...

Barack Obama—writer, sometime community organizer, leftmost member of the United States Senate, and Democratic presidential candidate—is he a red diaper baby? An...

The Senate approved a controversial nuclear deal with India on Wednesday, clearing the way for the United States to export nuclear know-how to India after a ban lasting...

U.S. lawmakers approved the creation of a cabinet-level position of copyright czar as part of sweeping intellectual property enforcement legislation that sailed through...

A bill designed to shield academic researchers from harassment by animal rights groups and others who oppose their work passed the state Senate on Friday.

CHICAGO — Efforts to protect the Great Lakes from those who may covet their vast quantities of water for an increasingly thirsty world took a major step forward...

The President will no longer be able to change published executive orders in secret if a bill introduced to the Senate Thursday becomes law.

Senate negotiators said Wednesday they had reached a tentative agreement on a key obstacle to one of the most ambitious federal health initiatives ever, a $50 billion...

If you want to understand national governmental power in the United States, one word is far more important to know than any other. That word is “filibuster.” The...

Leftist politicians in Mexico who last week stormed both houses of Congress have vowed to remain in protest at planned reform of the state oil giant.

Republicans in the House and Senate have vociferously favored earmark reform in recent months. As a political maneuver, it was extremely shrewd and came at a very...