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The Senate on Thursday easily approved a bipartisan gun violence bill that seemed unthinkable just a month ago, clearing the way for final congressional approval of what will be lawmakers' most far-reaching response in decades to the nation's run of brutal mass shootings.

The Senate has approved a bipartisan gun violence bill.

Last month's mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, have produced a groundswell for change in Congress.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., called on the labor movement to join him in his fight to get President Joe Biden to forgive $50,000 per borrower.

Senate bargainers have reached agreement on a bipartisan gun violence bill.

The legislation will expand benefits for veterans injured by their exposure to military burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Many Democrats are crossing their fingers Schumer and Manchin strike a deal to avoid hitting voters with huge healthcare bills before November.

In a letter sent to Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer in May, organizations noted the impact the end of the benefit has had on Americans with children.

The old lie resurfaced: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi did not in fact reject the Guard to protect the Capitol during the insurrection.

Schumer said in 2020 that Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh would "pay the price" for overturning Roe, later clarifying he was "in no way" making a threat.

The son of an 86-year-old woman killed in the racist Buffalo mass shooting is calling on Congress to act against domestic terrorism.

CNBC.com asked readers how they'd feel about the White House forgiving $10,000 in student debt. Dozens of people wrote in. Here's what four of them had to say.

Many advocates believe the bill must pass ahead of the midterms, or at least before House control potentially changes, in order to achieve the tech reforms.

More than two dozen high-profile tech experts have signed onto a letter asking Congressional leaders to apply a skeptical eye to the booming crypto industry.

Preliminary talks about a new spending bill are under way, but the senator from West Virginia is demanding it be constructed on his terms.

The Biden administration foresees unnecessary deaths if lawmakers don’t approve billions of dollars more to brace for the pandemic’s next wave.

For almost two decades, lawmakers in Washington have been pushing legislation that would rein in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Facing a near-certain presidential veto, the proposal has never crossed the finish line. Now, the legislation is getting a new look amid surging gasoline and oil prices.

Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy says he's optimistic that something can be done to address mass shootings like the one at a Texas elementary school that killed 19 children.

Lawyers for "Pirates of the Caribbean" star Johnny Depp and his ex-wife Amber Heard deliver closing arguments after a six-week trial featuring blistering mutual accusations of domestic abuse.

Max Schachter, whose son was killed in the 2018 Parkland school shooting, speaks out after Sen. Chuck Schumer blocked a school safety bill named after his son.

A bipartisan group of senators is trying to find a compromise on gun legislation.

Recent shootings at a Texas elementary school and New York grocery store have put a spotlight on Washington’s inaction on guns. Democrats in the US Congress have long supported legislation to expand background checks for gun buyers and remove guns from people exhibiting violent behavior. President Joe Biden, who helped pass a landmark gun violence law as a senator, wants the Senate to confirm his nominee to lead the top federal firearms regulator. But any effort to restrict firearms in America m

The domestic terrorism bill that failed Thursday dates back to 2017, when Rep. Brad Schneider first proposed it.

The Senate will hold a procedural vote to advance a domestic terrorism bill, though opposition from Republican is likely to doom it.

The vote to begin debate on the bill is almost certain to fall short of the 60-vote threshold needed to overcome Republican opposition.

For almost two decades, lawmakers in Washington have been pushing legislation that would rein in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Facing a near-certain presidential veto, the proposal has never crossed the finish line. Now, the legislation is getting a new look amid surging gasoline and oil prices.

The anger among Dem voters isn't just with Republicans. It's also with their own party, which controls both houses in Congress and the White House.

"If the slaughter of schoolchildren can't convince Republicans to buck the NRA, what can we do?" Schumer said.

"If the slaughter of schoolchildren can't convince Republicans to buck the NRA, what can we do?" Schumer said.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has quickly set in motion a pair of firearms background check bills in response to the school massacre in Texas.

For almost two decades, lawmakers in Washington have been pushing legislation that would rein in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Facing a near-certain presidential veto, the proposal has never crossed the finish line. Now, the legislation is getting a new look amid surging gasoline and oil prices.

The Senate has whisked a $40 billion package of military, economic and food aid for Ukraine and U.S. allies to final congressional approval.

All Democrats and most Republicans rallied behind the latest, and possibly not last, U.S. financial salvo against Russia’s invasion.

The agreement paves the way for passage of a bill that has become the top priority of veterans' groups.

Congressional bargainers have announced a deal on legislation to boost health care services and disability benefits for veterans exposed to toxic burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The NWS filmed a straight-lined wind storm system moving through Sioux Falls on May 12, 2022.

Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) blocked the passage of the $39.8 billion House-passed Ukraine aid after Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) presented a unanimous consent on behalf of himself and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell today. Schumer urged Paul to pass the bill and claimed that the Senator from Kentucky wanted to add certain changes directly to the bill, which have been opposed by members of both parties. Paul asserted that the aid amount will almost equal the entire military budget of Russia and that the U.S. will have to borrow the money from China to send it to Ukraine.

Garland's order came after the leak of a draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade stoked fierce outrage from abortion-rights supporters.

"The public will not forget which side of the vote senators fall on today," said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer ahead of the vote.

The vote to advance the measure is expected to fail, with Democrats set to fall short of the 60 votes needed.

The vote to codify the Roe v. Wade abortion rights decision, which is doomed to fail, appears designed more to spur enthusiasm among Democratic voters.

Senators will vote on the Women's Health Protection Act on Wednesday, but it likely will fail because there isn't enough support to reach the 60 votes necessary.

Abortion legislation that was rejected in a Senate test vote Wednesday would enshrine into federal law the landmark 1973 Roe v.

Fighting for decades over abortion policy, Congress is about to run into the political limits of its ability to act in either direction on the issue.

The bill passed 368 to 57.

Passing a stalled federal spending bill for vaccines and other Covid-fighting measures would be good for the country and the party. It shouldn’t be so hard to do.

For almost two decades, lawmakers in Washington have been pushing legislation that would rein in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Facing a near-certain presidential veto, the proposal has never crossed the finish line. Now, the legislation is getting a new look amid surging gasoline and oil prices.

Former senior advisor to President Donald Trump and longtime political consultant Kellyanne Conway slammed Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on Fox News for being “an old white guy” telling her what to do with her body and how to think. Fox News host Sean Hannity jokingly described Conway as “woke.” Conway made her remarks in response to Hannity stating that Senator Schumer threatened Supreme Court Justices Brett D. Kavanaugh and Neil M. Gorsuch.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said members of both parties need to go on record about where they stand on abortion rights.

"Republicans can run but they can't hide. They have two choices: They own it now, or miracle of miracles, try to begin to undo the damage," Schumer said.

The Senate is gearing up for a vote on legislation that would codify abortion rights into federal law.

"I think the story today is an effort by someone on the inside to discredit the institution," McConnell told reporters.

With the Supreme Court poised to overturn Roe v. Wade, many Democrats want to codify abortion protections under federal law. But it will be near impossible.

Speaking to the press alongside other Senate Democrats on Tuesday, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said the caucus will hold a vote on legislation that would protect the right to an abortion.

Furious Senate Democrats are vowing to vote on legislation to protect abortion access for millions of Americans.

Democrats called for Congress to codify Roe v. Wade's abortion rights. Republicans called for investigation into who leaked the draft Supreme Court opinion.

Data provided by Sen. Elizabeth Warren's office also found $10,000 in student-loan forgiveness would wipe out debt for 2 million Black borrowers.

Democratic leaders have announced an effort to give the Federal Trade Commission increased authority to crack down on oil and gas companies that engage in price gouging.

President Joe Biden said on Thursday he'll have an answer on student loan forgiveness within the next couple of weeks.

Some fear providing loan relief to students who attended expensive private universities would provide an easy campaign target for the GOP this fall.

Despite his initial belief that his party would break with Trump after January 6, McConnell later realized the rest of his caucus wasn't on board.

Democrats have spent years pledging to address the gun violence that plagues communities across the U.S. But a surge of mass shootings over the weekend served as a reminder of how little has been accomplished.

The Senate is taking on cannabis reform for the first time, but significant hurdles remain in federally changing marijuana laws.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced the final vote for 1:45PM on the confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the US Supreme Court in remarks on the Senate floor.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says images coming out of Ukraine as the war drags on "are pure, pure evil."

The House has already passed both the trade suspension bill and oil ban.

A compromise $10 billion measure buttressing the government’s COVID-19 defenses has stalled in the Senate.

Legislation punishing Russia for the war in Ukraine is finally getting a vote in the U.S. Senate.

Congress has overwhelmingly voted to suspend normal trade relations with Russia and ban the importation of its oil, ratcheting up the U.S. response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine amid reports of atrocities.

President Joe Biden has signed into law plans for a sweeping overhaul of the U.S. Postal Service.

Senate Republicans, with the support of some Democrats, want to use the $10 billion spending bill to block the expiration of a policy that has made it easier to deport migrants during the pandemic.

Senate bargainers have reached agreement on a slimmed-down $10 billion package for countering COVID-19 with treatments, vaccines and other steps.

Home-district projects for members of Congress are back, sprinkled across the government-wide $1.5 trillion bill that President Joe Biden signed recently.

Lawmakers have moved to the brink of clinching a scaled-back bipartisan compromise to provide a fresh $10 billion to combat COVID-19.

Congress has renewed a 1990s-era law that extends protections to victims of domestic and sexual violence.

Congress is racing to pass a mammoth $1.5 trillion legislative package that would fund the government for the rest of the year.

Legislation to limit insulin costs for people with diabetes is getting a new push in the Senate.

Congress has passed legislation that would shore up the U.S. Postal Service.

By banning U.S. imports of Russian oil, President Joe Biden is hoping that punishing Vladimir Putin’s country for the war in Ukraine is worth the political hit he’ll take at home, where gasoline prices have already shattered records and are likely to climb even higher.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says proposed U.S. aid for Ukraine and its European allies has grown beyond $12 billion.

The Biden administration says it is offering humanitarian relief to Ukrainians in the United States to protect them from being deported.

Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson has begun courting senators on Capitol Hill, making her case for confirmation in private meetings as Democrats worked to move her nomination through the Senate within weeks.

Senate Democrats and Republicans each want to flash election-year signals that they’re helping families struggling with rising costs and the two-year-old pandemic.

The Senate has sent President Joe Biden a bill averting a weekend government shutdown.

Despite the pandemic, Speaker Nancy Pelosi has announced that all members of Congress are invited to attend President Joe Biden’s upcoming State of the Union address in the House chamber.

President Joe Biden is hoping to use his upcoming State of the Union address as a chance to nudge the pandemic into the nation’s rear-view mirror.

U.S. Senate leaders from both parties have issued a joint statement signaling solidarity with an independent Ukraine.

Two widely supported bills are encountering delays in the Senate.

Democrats have conflicting views of what they're accomplishing in the 50-50 Senate and of how to take advantage of their control on the chamber.

Congress has given final approval to legislation guaranteeing that people who experience sexual harassment at work can seek recourse in the courts.

President Joe Biden had Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer over to the White House on Wednesday to talk about how to fill an upcoming vacancy on the Supreme Court.

In a Senate where bitter Supreme Court battles have left a lasting imprint, the confirmation of President Joe Biden’s pick for Supreme Court has the potential to be much less combative and toxic.

Democrats know they may lose control of Congress in November's midterm elections.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says Democrats "made progress” toward changing the Senate’s filibuster rules to advance voting legislation, despite the dramatic collapse of the package that his party says is central to protecting democracy.

Voting legislation that is a cornerstone of the Democratic agenda and a top priority for civil rights leaders is on track for defeat.

President Joe Biden is all but conceding defeat for this year on the Democrats' big elections and voting rights legislation.

Senate Democrats are trying to force a public showdown over their sweeping elections legislation.

The late Sen_ Harry Reid has been remembered at the U_S_ Capitol as a “legendary leader.”.

Democrats are mounting an impassioned bid to overhaul Senate rules that stand in the way of their sweeping voting legislation.

President Joe Biden will deliver his first State of the Union address on March 1, the White House confirmed Friday.