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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 [...]

Byline: Nicholas Wu, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - Four Republican senators asked President Donald Trump to suspend issuance of guest worker visas until next year or 'until employment has returned to [...]

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: Jennifer Rubin Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) was dead-set against giving unrestricted funds to states and local governments in the covid-19 relief bill the Senate passed Tuesday. Instead, [...]

Byline: Dana Milbank Senate chaplain Barry Black began Wednesday's session of President Trump's impeachment trial by praying for God to give senators 'civility built upon integrity.' It was too much [...]

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: William Cummings, USA TODAY You may know him as Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee with a fastidious approach to blowing out birthday candles, but [...]

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 [...]

Byline: William Cummings, USA TODAY Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, lashed out at Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Wednesday for what he called a biased promotion of tweets from 'snarky leftists' [...]

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: Joseph Spector, Albany Bureau, USA TODAY NETWORK - NEW YORK ALBANY, N.Y. - Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., faces questions over how she handled a sexual harassment complaint in her [...]

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: Paul Waldman The Democrats running for president, even those like Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg who are being characterized as 'moderates,' have some significant plans for legislation they'd like [...]