Trump’s first cabinet reflected, by his standards, a timidity about ostracising the Republican old guard. Rex Tillerson, John ...

Senate Republicans are pushing to hold a confirmation hearing for Tulsi Gabbard before President-elect Donald Trump’s ...

The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday approved the Laken Riley Act to require federal authorities to detain illegal ...

U.S. Senate Republican leader John Thune faces the test of his career this year as he tries to steer Donald Trump's agenda ...

South Dakota native Jackie Barber has been appointed Secretary of the U.S. Senate by Republican Sen. John Thune.

Democrats held onto their narrow majorities in Virginia's legislature as they won two of three special elections on Tuesday in the first ballot box showdowns of 2025, which were seen as a gauge of vot ...

Lawmakers in the House and Senate are launching a new push to pass a bill to crack down on noncitizen voting in federal elections, amid ongoing concerns about the practice.

The U.S. House of Representatives has passed the latest effort from a Georgia congressman to require law enforcement ...

The votes aren’t yet there to clear the Senate's filibuster, but several Democrats say they’ll support the House-passed bill or expressed openness to it.

Carol Moseley Braun, the first Black woman to serve in the Senate, joins MSNBC’s Symone Sanders to discuss how history was ...

Sen. Adam Schiff’s (D-Calif.) swearing-in for a full six-year term in the upper chamber this week set a U.S. record, as the ...

The remains of President Jimmy Carter arrived in Washington on Tuesday. His funeral is set for Thursday, also declared a ...