Today’s vote in the U.S. Senate, on Trump’s big bill, was dramatic. In the chamber, it was even more so. The Senate passed ...

Congress made its own New Year’s resolution: achieve fiscal discipline through the Budget Control and Impoundment Act. Like ...

By skirting the Senate parliamentarian’s power to police the boundaries of reconciliation bills, the GOP is putting the ...

The doors to the Senate Parliamentarian's office are seen in the U.S. Capitol on June 23, 2025 in Washington, DC. The Senate ...

Days before the deadline, the parliamentarian in the U.S. Senate is stripping portions of President Donald Trump's tax and ...

Senator Robert C. Byrd, democrat from West Virgina and the longest-serving senator in American history, died Monday at the age of 92. Jan. 30, 2003: Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va, left, and Sen. Edward ...

The SNAP reform proposed by the Republicans could jeopardize the Senate tax bill due to a violation of the Byrd rule.

Robert Byrd of West Virginia, the longest-serving senator in U.S. history, died on Monday at the age of 92. He rose from rural poverty to the pinnacle of power, and journeyed from racism to racial ...

The Byrd rule puts guardrails on budget reconciliation bills in the Senate, where some provisions of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act may not last.

The ambitious budget plans of Senate Republicans have hit a significant roadblock, threatening the proposed spending cuts in ...

Updated: July 19, 2010 Robert C. Byrd, a Democrat from West Virginia, was a Senator for 51 years and a member of the House for 6, making him the longest-serving member of the Senate and Congress ...

Updated: July 19, 2010 Robert C. Byrd, a Democrat from West Virginia, was a Senator for 51 years and a member of the House for 6, making him the longest-serving member of the Senate and Congress ...