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Gridlock crumbles as Senate advances spending bills in race against shutdown

Senate advances spending package despite Republican concerns over increased funding levels as lawmakers race to prevent ...

Senate Passes Its First Spending Bills, but Battles Lie Ahead

Overwhelming bipartisan passage of $488 billion in federal funding masked a bigger fight ahead over funding the rest of the ...

First three fiscal 2026 appropriations bills pass Senate

The Senate passed its first fiscal 2026 spending bills, making up for lost time in the long-delayed process before preparing ...

Senate appropriators defend the NIH

The amendment states that no funds appropriated in the fiscal 2026 spending bill can be used to increase the proportion of ...

Senate confirms anti-DEI stalwart Andrea Lucas to second term at top workplace civil rights agency

NEW YORK (AP) — The Senate confirmed Andrea Lucas to another term as commissioner of the country’s workplace civil rights ...

U.S. Senate confirms Washington’s Joe Kent to lead national intelligence agency

Joe Kent, a former Army Special Forces soldier and two-time Republican candidate for Congress in Washington, was confirmed by ...

Texas Senate passes THC ban bill, sends it to House for consideration

Legislation to ban THC products statewide — revived during the special session after a veto by Gov. Greg Abbott — passed the ...

Senate Democrats try to force release of Epstein files using arcane law

Senate Democrats are using an arcane procedural tool to try to force the Department of Justice to release additional files ...

Mass. Senate passes school cell phone ban

A statewide ban on cell phones in public schools took one step closer to becoming reality Thursday, when members of the state ...

Senate passes three funding bills after striking deal ahead of August recess

The Senate on Friday broke a multiday impasse by passing the first three fiscal 2026 spending bills, the first time the upper ...