US Senate panel advances nominee to lead consumer watchdog
The U.S. Senate Banking Committee voted Thursday to advance the nomination of Jonathan McKernan to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
New Senate bill seeks to tackle the flow of fentanyl into the US from China and Mexico
The bill does not link tariffs to fentanyl smuggling but seeks expanded authority to sanction state-owned or state-controlled Chinese entities, including banks, involved in financing foreign opioid trafficking. The measure also would have the U.S. government track more chemicals that can be used to make methamphetamines.
Senate Republicans push to codify DOGE cuts after Musk meeting
President Donald Trump on Monday alerted America's farmers to coming U.S. tariffs on "external product," telling them to get ready to sell their goods domestically.
Arrington praises Trump's address to joint Congress, urges Senate to pass House budget
Here is what U.S. Rep. Jodey Arrington has to say in response to President Donald Trump's address to Congress on Tuesday night.
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'We've asked': Top Senate Republicans say they're in the dark about VA cuts
Republicans on the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs were stumped when asked about massive staffing cuts coming for the Department of Veterans Affairs. Government Executive first reported late Tuesday that President Donald Trump planned to lay off as many as 83,
Senate Judiciary Democrats seek probe of D.C. U.S. attorney Ed Martin
Sen. Dick Durbin alleges the Trump loyalist abused power. Martin says Durbin “weaponized” D.C.’s legal disciplinary system against Trump’s lawyers.
North Carolina student delegates inspire at U.S. Senate Youth Program in Washington, D.C.
More than 100 high schoolers are visiting Washington, D.C., while attending the United States Senate Youth program. One student delegate is from Winston-Salem, and she's a junior at Mount Tabor High School.
Trump NIH nominee promotes scientific ‘free speech’ at Senate confirmation hearing
NIH director nominee Jay Bhattacharya faces Senate confirmation hearing
Trump NIH nominee aims to soothe senators over embattled agency
President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the National Institutes of Health sought to reassure senators Wednesday that he would bring stability to an agency that has faced mass terminations and frozen funding of health research since Trump took office.
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Cantwell bill to reauthorize billions for Coast Guard passes Senate
WASHINGTON, D.C.–The Coast Guard Reauthorization Act of 2025, which would reauthorize over $30 billion for the U.S. Coast Guard Fiscal Years 2025 and 2026, unanimously passed the United States Senate.
Senate bid to prevent boys from playing girls' sports gets stuck on filibuster
The Senate failed to advance a bill to codify a Trump executive order and prevent biological males from playing in girls sports.
Trump’s pick for key Pentagon role faces Senate GOP skeptics
Elbridge Colby, President Trump’s pick to serve as the Pentagon’s undersecretary for policy, is facing skepticism from GOP senators concerned about his views on how aggressively to confront Iran
Massachusetts high school students in Washington for 'US Senate Youth Program'
Betty Nguyen of Boston Latin and Evan Cote of Tyngsborough High School represented Massachusetts and were among 100 students who were invited to the event.