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Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su testified on the president’s 2025 budget request before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education. She highlig…

Data security executives testified before a Senate Commerce subcommittee on protecting consumers' data against unauthorized access. One of the witnesses, former Meta privacy manager Prem Tri…

Several senators asked Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Gen. Charles “CQ” Brown about the Biden administration and Defense Department pausing a weapons shipment…

During testimony before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee on President Biden’s Department of Education fiscal year 2025 budget request, Education Secretary Cardona responded to the pro-Pa…

Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough testified before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee on his department’s fiscal year 2025 and 2026 budget requests. He took several questions on v…

“Boeing has not provided us with the documents and information that we have requested numerous times over the past few months, specifically with respect to opening, closing, and removal of t…

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testified on President Biden’s fiscal year 2025 budget request before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee. He responded to Sen. John Kennedy’s…

The Senate approved the House-passed $1.2 trillion six-bill spending package to fund about 70 percent of the federal government through the end of the fiscal year on September 30, and avoid …

“We are aware of the many important lifesaving drugs that your companies have produced ... but I think as all of you know, those drugs mean nothing to anybody who cannot afford it,” said Sen…

Senators Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Patty Murray (D-WA), and several other Democratic senators held a news conference to discuss the recent ruling by the Alabama Supreme Court that said embryos…

Maria Muyad and Elise Cataldo, two young girls living with Type 1 diabetes, testified on their experience living with the disease before the Senate Appropriations Committee as members of the…

Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin testified on President’s Biden’s $106 billion emergency aid request that would provide military and humanitarian assistan…

The Senate voted to advance the nomination of John Kazen to be U.S. District Court judge for the Southern District of Texas. Several Democratic senators paid tribute to the late former Senat…

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and National Science Foundation Director Sethuraman Panchanathan testified on CHIPS and Science Act investments before the Senate Commerce, Science, and Tran…

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra testified on President Biden’s multibillion-dollar supplemental funding requests for the…

The Senate voted to block a proposed rule on electric vehicle chargers. Members also confirmed two nominations: Ramon Reyes Jr., U.S. district judge for the Eastern District of New York; and…

Dr. Monica Bertagnolli, nominee to be director of the National Institutes of Health, testified at her confirmation hearing before the Senate Health Committee. She answered senators' question…

The Senate defeated a measure from Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) to withdraw U.S. troops from Niger. Members also voted down a Republican proposal to block a Food and Nutrition Service proposed a…

Michael Whitaker, President Biden’s nominee to be administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, testified at a confirmation hearing before the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transport…

Child care policy advocates and early childhood educators testified on child care access and affordability in the U.S. before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. Sev…