U.S. Senate
Here are some facts about Marco Rubio.
In a unanimous vote, the U.S. Senate voted Wednesday to clear a key procedural hurdle toward passing a stopgap funding bill to avert a government shutdown. The vote occurred after Republican Sen. Ted Cruz staged a filibuster-styled speech marathon in effort to defund President Obama's health care law.
The U.S. Senate approved a bill Thursday that includes a provision which threatens to sanction any country that agrees to grant asylum to National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Interest rates on student loans are set to double to 6.8% on Monday due to the U.S. Senate's failure to reach a consensus to prevent a rise in federally subsidized borrowing costs before the July 1 deadline.
The Senate Judiciary Committee is moving to make foreign students easier to track in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings.
There are some mixed messages being sent from key Washington legislators regarding the chances that the compromise bill on immigration proposed by the "Gang of Eight" bipartisan senate panel will pass into law.
CISPA, a cybersecurity bill that opponents say tramples on online privacy, seems doomed to fail after the Senate decided not to consider the bill, and the White House announced President Obama wouldn’t sign it.
While the Senate seems likely to pass a bipartisan immigration bill eventually, whatever legislation comes from that debate will then need to pass the more conservative House of Representatives, and some House members aren’t waiting.
The question is not whether immigration reform will pass, but how well.
Recent polls show nearly 90 percent of Americans favor background checks for firearms purchases, support that crosses party lines and remains high even among gun owners themselves.
The U.S. Senate has successfully avoided a filibuster of new gun control measures introduced today, in a rare show of bipartisanship for the often-deadlocked body.
The Senate’s immigration reform bill will be introduced tomorrow, and hopes are high that it will clarify and streamline the naturalization process for millions of hopeful immigrants, as well as create an entirely new path to citizenship for the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country.
After stops and stalls late in the process, it appears that the bipartisan Senate panel working on immigration reform may be closer than ever to a deal to fix the nation's immigration laws.
As the “Gang of Eight” in the Senate continues to hit snags in creating a bipartisan immigration reform bill, the House of Representatives may be stepping up to present its own legislation.
Newly-minted Senator Elizabeth Warren is bashing insurance conglomerate AIG for claiming the terms it received in the taxpayer bailout were unfair.
