Government funding bill includes provision that would create pathway for senators to sue the government if their phone records are investigated without their notice.

The pushback from Senate Republicans follows the governor’s call for a special session to consider a new congressional map that President Trump wanted.

Back from Monday’s Senate vote to reopen the federal government, U.S. Senator Pete Ricketts, of Nebraska, spent his morning in Siouxland on Friday.

WASHINGTON DC (KOLO) - U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen is urging the Senate to hold a vote on releasing the Epstein files. She sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) pressuring him to hold a vote to release the files as soon as next week.

The leader of the Indiana state Senate, a Republican, has said that his chamber will no longer meet in December as planned to vote on redistricting, citing lack of support from his members.

The moment their effort to blame Trump for the government shutdown went poof, they resurrected Jeffrey Epstein to suggest the president is a pedophile.

Democrats’ split decision on how to handle health care subsidies is further inflaming tensions within the party.

The longest federal government shutdown in history is over. President Donald Trump on Wednesday night signed the compromise bill that ended the 43-day shutdown soon after the legislation passed the House.