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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…

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…

Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland testified on President Biden’s fiscal year 2025 budget request before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. Secretary Haaland, along with t…

The Senate continued work on House-passed legislation to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) for two years. Section 702 allows the U.S. to monitor for…

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 confirmed Dennis Hankins’s nomination for U.S. ambassador to Haiti. Mr. Hankins was nominated by President Biden in May 2023, and the Port-au-Prince-based post had been without a …

The Senate approved a House-passed six-bill government spending package to avert a partial shutdown at midnight and fund a portion of the government through the end of the fiscal year on Sep…

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 confirmed Margaret Garnett’s nomination to be a U.S. District Court judge for Southern New York. In a 44-51 vote, lawmakers also failed to advance Jose Javier Rodriguez’s nominati…

The Senate met for a period of morning business. No votes were taken in this portion.

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…

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 completed work on and passed a three-bill package for fiscal year 2024 federal spending for the Departments of Agriculture, Housing and Urban Development, Transportation, and Vete…

The Senate confirmed two nominations: Julia Kathleen Munley, U.S. district judge for the Middle District of Pennsylvania; and Karla Gilbride, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission general …

Following leadership remarks on the death of Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), who passed away the previous evening, lawmakers continued working on legislation to extend funding through Novem…

The Senate continued work on a short-term spending bill to avert a government shutdown on September 30 at midnight. The bipartisan measure would extend current funding levels until November …

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee held a hearing on U.S. competitiveness amid recent advances in artificial intelligence. Witnesses included Energy Department Deputy Secretar…

Energy industry stakeholders and policy advocates testified before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on the reliability of the U.S. power grid. Topics included regulations by…