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Taxes, paid leave and immigration are three parts of the legislation that could be cut or significantly changed in the Senate.

Taxes, paid leave and immigration are three parts of the legislation that could be cut or significantly changed in the Senate.

"He took whatever was thrown at him no matter how difficult, did his job, never complained," the senator said of his father.

Greene was one of 21 Republicans who voted against awarding the Congressional Gold Medal to all the police officers who responded to the attack on the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob on Jan. 6.

From extra taxes on adjusted gross income to higher limits on SALT deductions, here's who would be affected by the proposed tax changes in the BBB plan.

The 30-year fixed-rate average was unchanged at 3.1 percent this week, remaining above 3 percent for the second week in a row.

Democrats have finally driven President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion package of family services, health care and climate initiatives through the House.

It took half a year but Democrats have driven President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion package of social and climate initiatives through the House. It gets no easier in the Senate, where painful Republican amendments, restrictive rules and Joe Manchin lurk. Facing unbroken GOP opposition, Democrats finally reached agreement among themselves and eased the compromise through the House on Nov. 19.

Parnell suspended his campaign on Monday after a judge awarded his estranged wife sole legal custody of their children amid abuse allegations.

The enhanced child tax credit, paid family leave and subsidized child care would be all help many low- and middle-income families financially.

But there is some good news for the Democratic Party — its candidates have been outraising Republicans in key battleground races.

While the 2022 state budget puts our resources to good use, the Senate has proposed two initiatives that would make investments in parks and water.

The House finally passed President Joe Biden's signature social spending plan Friday, but it has a complicated path moving forward.

The House finally passed President Joe Biden's signature social spending plan Friday but it has a complicated path moving forward.

While the bill is not a done deal, the House passage means provisions to improve Medicare are a step closer to becoming law.

LANSING, MI — A pair of House Republicans have filed campaign committees to run for two Michigan Senate seats. State Rep. Michele Hoitenga, R-Manton, announced a run for what is expected to be the 36th District in the Senate. Hoitenga announced her campaign for state Senate in a post to Facebook Nov. 19. She was first elected to the Michigan House of Representatives in November 2016. Clements filed a campaign committee for state Senate on Nov. 5.

A huge social and environmental policy bill passed by House Democrats includes a plan to impose a fee on emissions of methane.

Republican Rep. Kat Cammack of Florida said she was voting "hell no" on Biden's Build Back Better spending bill, calling it "Build Back Broke."

Workers and families with private health insurance would reap savings on prescription drugs from a little-noticed provision in President Joe Biden's social agenda bill.

Mark Pukita's Senate financial disclosures indicate he holds up to $50,000 in Johnson & Johnson stock and up to $15,000 in Pfizer stock.

The Biden administration and Democrats talked the climate talk at U.N. negotiations in Scotland.

Sen. Dick Durbin, a Democrat from Illinois, spoke with NPR about how Democrats plan to secure all 50 member votes needed to pass President Biden's $2.2 trillion social spending bill.

The bill now heads to the Senate, where cost-cutting demands by Sen. Joe Manchin seem certain to force significant changes.

The Senate will try to pass the Build Back Better Act before Christmas, and it will likely make changes to the House bill.

House Democrats passed the Build Back Better Act on Friday. It would require withdrawals from big accounts and eliminate "backdoor Roth" loopholes.

House Democrats' spending package boosts the limit on the deduction for state and local taxes to $80,000 through 2030.

The bill now heads to the Senate, where cost-cutting demands by Sen. Joe Manchin seems certain to force significant changes.

The measure was delayed by an all-night speech from GOP leader Kevin McCarthy. Centrist Democrats in the Senate have raised objections to some provisions that will likely alter the House-passed bill.

The House has passed the largest expansion of the social safety net in decades, a $1.75 trillion bill that funds President Joe Biden's top priorities.

The House has handed President Joe Biden a marquee victory.

Democrats have brushed aside monthslong divisions and are approaching House passage of their expansive social and environment bill.

For the fifth time Nov. 17 afternoon, Senate Republicans stalled the confirmation of Dilawar Syed as deputy administrator for the Small Business Adm

House Democrats plan to vote on a sweeping measure to strengthen the nation's social safety net programs and climate change measures.

The House moved toward a vote on President Joe Biden's social safety and climate plan Thursday night after a key analysis said it would add to budget deficits over a decade. A handful of centrist House Democrats wanted to see the Congressional Budget Office's estimate of how the Build Back Better Act affected long-term deficits before they voted for the plan. The score's release opens the door for the House to pass the social safety net and climate bill in the coming days. The Senate then aims to approve the legislation before Christmas, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said this week. If the Senate makes changes to the bill, it would have to go back to the House for another vote.

Biden’s style with Trudeau and López Obrador is far friendlier than under Trump. But some of the same flash points remain, from immigration to trade.

After a Washington Post-ABC News poll showed Republicans ahead by 10 points on the very telling measure, another new poll shows voters preferring a GOP Congress by significant margins. Here's what that means, historically speaking.

The House passed the bill in October, and the Senate passed it Wednesday.

“We may reach out to him and see if he’d be interested in helping the country in additional ways," Matt Gaetz said of Kyle Rittenhouse on Wednesday night.

A federal judge is set to sentence Jacob Chansley for his role in the January 6 attack on the Capitol.

For those who enjoyed a break from political ads for a little while, get used to them ramping up again after the holiday season, if not sooner.

House Democrats are expected vote on the Build Back Better Act this week, but it remains to be seen what will happen to the measure in the Senate.

Progressive Democrats' aggressive tactics in the recent fight over a massive safety-net package surprised many in the party.

An inmate at the largest federal prison in the U.S. was stabbed in the eyeball by a fellow prisoner earlier this month.

The Chilean Senate has rejected an opposition-initiated impeachment process to remove President Sebastián Piñera over allegations that he favored the sale of a family property that hinged on the government not declaring the land a nature reserve.

Democratic leaders are pressing ahead on President Joe Biden’s big domestic policy bill.

The House is trying to approve Biden's Build Back Better plan this week, following passage of the bipartisan infrastructure package.

House Democrats are expected vote on the Build Back Better Act this week, but it remains to be seen what will happen to the measure in the Senate.

Bad candidates probably cost the GOP the Senate in 2010 and 2012. With extreme and baggage-laden candidates emerging again, could we see a repeat? Perhaps, but it's not as likely.

Leahy, who was first elected in 1974, is the longest-serving Democrat in the Senate.

If the Democratic House speaker succeeds, it would likely serve as a capstone to a career that is already one of the most significant in modern congressional history.

President Biden is set to sign the $1.25 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill on Monday.

President Joe Biden’s top economic adviser is expressing confidence the White House’s $1.85 trillion domestic policy package will quickly pass the House this week.

During an interview with ABC correspondent Jonathan Karl, Trump contended that GOP leadership didn't do enough to keep the party in the White House.

The environment looks favorable for GOP gains, but some Republican Senate candidates are battling even fellow party members over past controversies.

If voting in Congress continues largely along party lines, that body will remain dysfunctional.

Democrats’ $1.85 trillion package of social and climate initiatives seems afflicted by a maddening parade of hurdles.

McConnell made the remarks on an podcast appearance on Friday, where he also gave Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin "credit" for "talking about inflation."

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He expressed doubt that inflation is "transitory," as the Biden administration has predicted it would be.

The Republican Senate frontrunner was targeted earlier in an ad criticizing him for courting evangelical Christians.

He expressed doubt that inflation is "transitory," as the Biden administration has predicted it would be.

It was 2015 when Congress last approved a major renewal of federal highway and other transportation programs.

It’s a brief in support of a lawsuit filed by the other states.

One of New Jersey’s most powerful elected Democrats has conceded that he lost reelection to a Republican political newcomer, a commercial truck driver who spent only a couple thousand dollars on his campaign.

Chilean President Sebastián Piñera has been impeached by the lower house of Chile’s congress, setting up a Senate trial over whether to remove him due to allegations he favored the sale of a family property while in office.

Rarely have the leaders of Congress been asked to do so much with so little in trying to navigate President Joe Biden’s big domestic vision into law.

Democrats in the House appear on the verge of advancing President Joe Biden’s $1.85 trillion-and-growing domestic policy package.

New Jersey’s longtime state Senate president, Democrat Steve Sweeney lost reelection, falling to a Republican newcomer who spent little money and underscoring Democratic woes in the Biden era.

Senate Democrats forced another test vote on voting rights legislation.

Democrats say they have sealed a deal to lower pharmaceutical drug costs for most older Americans as part of President Joe Biden’s sweeping $1.75 trillion domestic proposal.

President Joe Biden says historic progress on addressing global warming was achieved at the U.N. climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland.

Two Democrats say party leaders are hoping for House votes as soon as Tuesday on the two pillars of President Joe Biden’s domestic agenda.

Sen. Patty Murray of Washington, who was elected in 1992 as a self described “mom in tennis shoes,” has been fighting for paid family and medical leave for decades.

Senate Democrats want to again try letting millions of immigrants stay temporarily in the U.S. as part of President Joe Biden's economic plan.

President Joe Biden says he has reached a “historic” framework with Democrats in Congress on his sweeping, though scaled-back domestic policy plan.

Democratic control of Virginia state government over the past two years has allowed lawmakers to dramatically reshape public policy with legislation reforming the criminal justice system, loosening abortion restrictions and expanding voting access.

A Brazilian Senate committee has recommended that President Jair Bolsonaro face a series of criminal indictments for actions and omissions related to the world’s second highest COVID-19 death toll.

With a click of a mouse or a swipe of a screen you can connect with businesses, family and old friends all over the world -- but with Facebook now under fire, it has people looking at social media differently.

The Senate has confirmed two prominent anti-Trump Republicans to serve in the Biden administration.

Former President Donald Trump struggled during his first year in office to get his nominees confirmed in a timely fashion in the Senate.

President Joe Biden and Democratic leaders in Congress have edged close to a deal on their big package of social services and climate change strategies.

The White House says President Joe Biden will lay out his thinking in the coming weeks about moving to “fundamentally alter” the filibuster or even eliminate the legislative roadblock that empowers the Senate minority.

A deal within reach, President Joe Biden and Congress’ top Democrats have edged close to sealing their giant domestic legislation.

For the third time this year, Senate Democrats tried to pass sweeping elections legislation that they tout as a powerful counterweight to new voting restrictions in the states.

Senate Democrats are set to try again to advance a sweeping elections and voting overhaul bill.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is warning that that Democrats “must put aside our differences” as the party struggles to coalesce around President Joe Biden’s now-scaled back package of social services and climate change strategies.

Progressive leaders in Congress are warning against what they say is a “false choice” over how to trim President Joe Biden’s now-$2 trillion proposal for beefing up social services and tackling climate change.

Senate aides and immigration advocates say Democrats are considering proposing that the government use its existing parole power to let about 7 million migrants stay temporarily in the United States.

A milestone energy bill that targets sharply reducing greenhouse gas emissions from North Carolina power plants has become law.

Members of the House have approved a short-term hike to the nation’s debt limit.

Terry McAuliffe, the Democratic candidate for Virginia governor, is calling on leaders in Washington from both parties — including President Joe Biden — to “get their act together.”.

Terry McAuliffe, the Democratic candidate for Virginia governor, is calling on leaders in Washington from both parties — including President Joe Biden — to “get their act together.”.

Year-end pileups of crucial legislation and the brinkmanship that goes with it are normal behavior for Congress.

A Brazilian medical chain has been accused of enlisting participants to test unproven drugs without proper consent and forcing doctors to toe the line on prescribing unproven drugs touted by President Jair Bolsonaro.

After seven weeks of mapping, Michigan’s new redistricting commission is starting to vote on much-anticipated draft congressional and legislative plans.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says he will not again help Democrats extend the government’s borrowing authority.

A report by the Senate Judiciary Committee's Democratic majority details Donald Trump’s extraordinary effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election that he lost.

A group intent on expanding Republican power across state-level offices is rolling out a national effort to diversify and broaden the GOP, with an advisory council headed up by a number of possible future presidential hopefuls.

The Senate has dodged a U.S. debt disaster by approving legislation to lift the federal limit on new borrowing by nearly a half-trillion dollars.