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Nov. 7U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey is the kind of Republican that needs to be heard right now. Toomey has been a reliably conservative Republican his entire political life. He has [...]

Byline: Meagan Flynn Republican political newcomer Daniel Gade took on two-term Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., in their first debate Wednesday night, as each offered significantly different approaches to the two [...]

Byline: Paul Kane WASHINGTON - Sen. Richard Shelby has more freedom to speak his mind than most lawmakers on Capitol Hill. At 86, after 34 years in the Senate, considering [...]

At least one Republican, Lisa Murkowski, wants the Trump impeachment trial to be more than a test of party loyalty. Others should follow. The holiday break has thus far provided [...]

Byline: Paul Kane Three years ago, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell paid tribute to a former colleague in the most personal of ways. Leading off tributes from the Senate floor, [...]

Byline: Aaron Blake The Senate is the saucer that cools the hot tea that the House sends over, as the old saying goes. While the House is more partisan, rancorous [...]

Byline: Robert Costa and Philip Rucker WASHINGTON - Republican senators are lost and adrift as the impeachment inquiry enters its second month, navigating the grave threat to President Donald Trump [...]

Byline: Amber Phillips With one exception, Senate Republicans are standing by President Donald Trump, who is facing allegations he pressured Ukraine to dig into his potential 2020 opponent. They could [...]

Byline: Robert Barnes WASHINGTON - It is rare that an amicus brief filed in a Supreme Court case is characterized as both a brassy reality check and unprecedented political bullying. [...]

Byline: Michael Brice-Saddler WASHINGTON - Following a spate of mass shootings across the United States, Democratic Sens. Cory Booker of New Jersey and Richard Durbin of Illinois on Thursday implored [...]

Byline: Paige Winfield Cunningham WASHINGTON - Some Republicans made clear Thursday they don't love a bold bipartisan bill to suppress drug spending. But if they don't play ball, they might [...]

Byline: Devlin Barrett WASHINGTON - A Republican senator moved Wednesday to stall for the moment legislation providing compensation to 9/11 workers, sparking an emotional appeal on behalf of those sick [...]

Byline: Peggy McGlone WASHINGTON - The Smithsonian Institution will not remove the Sackler name from its Asian art museum, despite a senator's request that they do so. Sen. Jeff Merkley, [...]

Byline: Mike DeBonis and Rachael Bade WASHINGTON - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi thought she had a deal this week with her longtime ally, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer: She would [...]

Byline: Emily Davies WASHINGTON - The 11 Democratic lawmakers vying for their party's presidential nomination missed several crucial votes this week on border security and the military budget to participate [...]

Byline: Karoun Demirjian WASHINGTON - The top Democrats on the House and Senate Intelligence committees notified the nation's spy chiefs Friday that they intend to closely monitor efforts by Attorney [...]

Byline: Cat Zakrzewski WASHINGTON - Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., wants to make opting out of online tracking as easy as adding your number to the 'Do Not Call' list. Hawley [...]

Good Monday morning. Here are some of the stories making news in Washington and politics today. _____________________ President Trump said on Sunday that the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, [...]

Byline: Paul Waldman Mitch McConnell has a plan. And that plan apparently involves saying the word 'socialism' a lot. Here's what the Senate majority leader told reporters, according to NPR's [...]

Byline: Kevin Sullivan NEWARK, N.J. - A banged-up Dodge Caravan pulls up next to Sen. Cory Booker, who's out for a walk in the banged-up city center where he's lived [...]

Byline: Mike DeBonis WASHINGTON - Responding to action in the House, Senate Democrats unveiled their own version of a sweeping election and ethics reform bill Wednesday - one that Senate [...]

Byline: Allyson Chiu Clad in a sharp, dark-colored suit, former president Ronald Reagan cuts a striking figure. But his attire isn't what makes him formidable. He's riding a velociraptor, which [...]

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, speaking outside a Trump-branded high-rise in Manhattan on Sunday, launched a frontal attack on President Trump, calling him a ''coward'' and the building bearing [...]

Byline: Deanna Paul Sen. Doug Jones, D-Ala., may face Roy Moore, his 2017 Republican special election opponent, for a second time in Alabama's 2020 U.S. Senate race. Moore announced he [...]

Byline: Annie Linskey WASHINGTON - Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., announced Monday that she will not participate in a high-dollar fundraising program during her bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, staking [...]

Byline: Linda Feldmann Staff writer Abstract: At a Monitor Breakfast, Senator Brown of Ohio talked about a possible presidential run - and how his favorite Russian author informs his progressive [...]

Byline: Glenn Kessler'The average tax refund is down about $170 compared to last year. Let's call the President's tax cut what it is: a middle-class tax hike to line the [...]

Byline: Robert CostaFor weeks, incoming Utah Sen. Mitt Romney has been tight-lipped as he prepares to be sworn in on Thursday, disappointing his longtime friends who hoped he would emerge [...]

Mitt Romney, the incoming senator from Utah and former Republican presidential nominee, revived his rivalry with President Trump on Tuesday with an op-ed essay in The Washington Post in which [...]

Byline: Felicia SonmezWASHINGTON - Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., on Sunday abruptly walked back his criticism of President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw troops from Syria, a move that he had [...]

Byline: Jeff SteinSen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said Sunday she welcomes potential Republican primary challengers to President Donald Trump while also declining to endorse the president's 2020 re-election bid.Collins, who helped [...]

MANCHESTER, N.H. -- Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey says he will be deciding about running for president over the holidays. But as he blitzed through New Hampshire on Saturday [...]

Byline: Seung Min Kim and Josh DawseyWASHINGTON - Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has told allies there is little chance that the Senate will consider a bipartisan criminal justice bill in [...]

Byline: Chuck SchumerNow that Democrats will soon control one branch of Congress, President Donald Trump is again signaling that infrastructure could be an area of compromise. We agree, but if [...]

WASHINGTON -- Tim Scott of South Carolina, the lone black Republican senator, said on Thursday that he would oppose the judicial nomination of Thomas A. Farr, a lawyer who defended [...]

Byline: Felicia Sonmez and Sean Sullivan Facing a tough re-election battle, Sen. Claire McCaskill (D) is distancing herself from liberal members of her party, including Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) - [...]

Byline: Karoun Demirjian The Senate's top foreign policy lawmakers asked President Donald Trump on Wednesday to sanction anyone found responsible for the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, even if [...]

Byline: Mike DeBonis Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts said Saturday that she plans to 'take a hard look' at running for president in 2020 after the midterm elections in [...]

Byline: Rachel Weiner Virginia's two Democratic senators are recommending a federal prosecutor and a magistrate judge to replace a conservative district judge in the Eastern District of Virginia. 'Both would [...]

Byline: Karoun Demirjian WASHINGTON - Republican defenders of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Democratic supporters of Christine Blasey Ford, who accused him of sexual assaulting her when both were [...]

Byline: Felicia Sonmez Mitt Romney, the former Republican presidential nominee and current Utah Senate hopeful, on Monday called out members of his party for putting their long-espoused goal of deficit [...]

Byline: Paul Kane Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., spent the past week rekindling his musings about not fitting in the Republican Party, from TV appearances to committee hearing rooms to social [...]

Byline: Erica Werner and Sean Sullivan WASHINGTON - A day before President Donald Trump struck a preliminary trade deal with the Europeans, Republican Sen. Mike Rounds of South Dakota privately [...]

Byline: John Wagner Sen. John McCain issued a stern warning Thursday to President Donald Trump in advance of his summit with Vladimir Putin, saying that it would be 'a serious [...]