U.S. Senate

House Unanimously Passes Bill To Shut Down Senator Payday Over Jan. 6 Probe

It’s not clear if Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) will give the bill a Senate vote.

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Senate approves Epstein bill, Texas’ gerrymandered map gets struck down and Musk comes back into the fold — just some of the stories HuffPost is following today.

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Chuck Schumer Signed Off On Provision That Could Pay Republican Senators Millions

The new law lets senators sue for major damages if the Justice Department obtains their phone records without telling them.

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House Republicans Hate A Major Provision In The Bill to Reopen The Government

"What they did is wrong," one House Republican said of the provision, adding it would never pass on its own.

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The Moment That Really Got Democrats To Cave In The Shutdown Fight

Donald Trump was willing to make millions of people suffer. Democrats didn’t have the stomach for it.

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The Decision To Cave On The Government Shutdown Has A Deeply Sinister Consequence

"To many Americans who were counting on Senate Democrats to fight for them, this was a betrayal."

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GOP Senators Give Themselves Chance For Payday Over Jan. 6 Phone Subpoenas

The legislation gives senators a chance to sue for $500,000 in damages if their phone records were obtained by the FBI.

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Senate Approves Bill To Reopen Federal Government

The GOP-controlled House is expected to pass the legislation later this week and end the longest government shutdown in history.

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Here Are The 8 Senate Democrats Who Folded On The Shutdown

The decision to fold on the shutdown is likely to fan the flames of the Democratic Party’s raging discontent with its elected representatives.

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Senate Reaches Deal To Reopen Government After Moderate Democrats Cave

Republicans found enough Democrats willing to drop their party's demand to extend soon-to-expire health care subsidies for millions of people.

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