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

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.

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.

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 White House had pressured state Republican lawmakers to redraw their congressional map ahead of the midterm elections.

Now that the government shutdown is over, House and Senate Republicans say they’ll negotiate with Democrats on whether to extend COVID-era tax credits that help tens of millions of Americans afford th

Trump emerges from the shutdown having made little in the way of substantive concessions to Democrats in Congress.