When Master Yoda (Frank Oz) arrives at the Senate to confront newly-self-appointed Emperor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid), they exchange some memorably sassy insults, from "my little green friend" to ...

Delaware Sen. Chris Coons agreed with CNN host Michael Smerconish that funding a "Sesame Street" show in Iraq could be a good use of taxpayer funding to teach "values" to Iraqi children ...

After all, when he was born, there had been just one Black Senator elected since Reconstruction, his state of Georgia had never sent someone who looked like him to the upper chamber, and ...

The Senate returns late this afternoon, when Tulsi Gabbard’s nomination for director of national intelligence comes up for a procedural vote. One of Trump’s most controversial nominees ...

Senate Republicans on Thursday confirmed Russell Vought, President Trump’s pick to lead the Office of Budget and Management (OMB), in the face of mounting Democratic attacks over his ties to ...

The Senate confirmed Thursday one of President Donald Trump’s most controversial nominees, Russell Vought, as director of the Office of Management and Budget—as Vought is expected to expand ...

Senator Martin Conway has resigned from the Fine Gael parliamentary party as a disciplinary process gets under way following his arrest last month. In a statement, the Clare-based senator said he ...

WASHINGTON — As the GOP-led House struggles to begin work on “one big, beautiful bill“ to advance President Donald Trump’s agenda, the Senate Republican budget chief says the upper ...

WASHINGTON — The Senate voted along party lines Thursday to confirm Russell Vought as the next head of the Office of Management and Budget despite fierce pushback from Democrats. Although ...

President Donald Trump's attorney general nominee Pam Bondi was confirmed in a 54-46 Senate vote on Tuesday evening. Bondi takes control of a Justice Department that has purged prosecutors who ...