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Senate Democratic leaders held a news conference on the budget and their priorities for 2014. They said extending unemployment benefits should be the next priority when the Senate returns fr…

The Senate continued consideration of the motion to concur in the amendment of the House to the amendment of the Senate to H.J. Res. 59, Budget Act, post-cloture. The measure passed on a vot…

The Senate convened for a legislative session.

The Senate convened and resumed consideration of the motion to concur in the House message to accompany H.J.Res.59, the Budget Resolution.

Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) and Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI), co-chairs of the Budget Conference Committee, held a news conference to introduce the compromise budget bill that the confere…

Doug Elmendorf testified before the House and Senate budget Conference Committee. He told members that even a short term agreement on spending levels would be better than no deal at all.

After the transaction of any morning business (not to extend beyond one hour), Senate will continue consideration of S. 1197, National Defense Authorization Act.

The Senate convened an resumed consideration of the motion to proceed to H.R.3204, the Pharmaceutical Drug Compounding bill.

Marilyn Tavenner, administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), testified at a hearing on the online health insurance marketplace. In her testimony she said that we…

Senate Democrats spoke to reporters before taking a final vote on ENDA, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. Each urged House Speaker John Boehner to put the bill up for a House vote, afte…

Senate will continue consideration of S. 815, Employment Non-Discrimination Act. At 11:45 a.m., Senate will vote on or in relation to Reid (for Toomey/Flake) Amendment No. 2013 to the bill, …

The Senate resumed consideration of the motion to proceed to S.815, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act.

The Senate convened for a legislative session.

House and Senate negotiators held their first formal meeting on the 2014 federal budget. The conference committee was supposed to come up with a budget plan by mid December 2013, as called f…

The leaders of the House and Senate Budget Committees spoke with reporters briefly after having breakfast to discuss negotiations over a long-term federal budget deal.

Following votes on a measure to re-open government and extend the debt ceiling, Senate Democratic leaders spoke to reporters and answered questions about the recent impasse in Congress.

Following remarks from the majority leader, senators were permitted to speak for up to ten minutes each. The pending business was the motion to proceed to S. 1569, the debt limit bill. Th…

Senate Democratic leaders talked about the vote earlier in the day on raising the debt ceiling. They did not take any questions.

The Senate convenes for a legislative session.

*At a TBD, the Senate will consider the following judicial nominations under a unanimous consent agreement that allows for up to 30 mins of debate, equally divided and controlled by Sens. Le…