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The Senate convened for a legislative session.

State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) officials gave the Senate Foreign Relations Committee an update on the ISAF & NATO operational transition in Afghanista…

Witnesses testified on political, economic and security issues in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya. Panel One: Alina Romanowski, deputy assistant administrator, Middle East Bureau…

Secretary of State John Kerry testified about the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. He urged senators to ratify the treaty and pledged to work with lawmakers who ha…

The Senate convened for a period of morning business and thereafter resumed consideration of S.1197, the National Defense Authorization Act.

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.

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, …

Army, Air Force, Marine, and Navy chiefs testified on the impact of sequestration budget cuts to national defense programs. They warned the cuts would compromise the military’s ability to de…

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

Witnesses testified on the Disability Treaty, a law that, if ratified, would extend Americans' disability rights to disabled people in foreign countries.

Experts on Syria testified on the country’s civil war and the Obama administration’s approach to the conflict. Among the issues addressed were the flow of refugees to other countries, effort…

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…

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…

The Senate convened for a legislative session.

Senate Democrats met on the steps of the U.S. Capitol to talk about the impact of the federal government shutdown. Senators from Maryland and Virginia described the effects of the shutdown o…

The Senate convened for a legislative session. Proceedings were interrupted due to a lockdown at the Capitol.

Undersecretary of State Wendy Sherman testified at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the status of Iran’s nuclear program. Other witnesses included former Obama and Bush admini…

Democratic senators and furloughed federal workers spoke to reporters about the economic impact of the federal government shutdown.

The Senate convened for a legislative session to consider the continuing resolution to keep the government operating.

The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association hosted a grand opening ceremony at The Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington more than two hundred years after George Washing…