Congressional retirements can signal internal party strains, and reshape the political landscape ahead of critical elections.

Four Democratic senators blasted an Education Department plan to move certain operations to other departments through interagency agreements as “outrageous,” and “illegal,” saying it circumvented appropriations law.

Congress is almost out of time to extend enhanced Obamacare subsidies that would avert skyrocketing health care premiums for tens of millions of Americans next year.

With Pressley on the test ballot, Markey still led Moulton, but by a much slimmer margin, 35-25; Pressley garnered 21% of the vote and Rikleen finished with 5%. The margin of error here for likely Democratic voters was 6.1%.

Democrats won an agreement for a floor showdown after the shutdown, but consensus still eludes the Senate. Will Republicans pay a political price?

As intrigue grows over whether Texas Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett plans to announce a U.S. Senate campaign next week, she confirmed to CBS News she's spoken with would-be opponents.

As the fallout from a military strike on a suspected drug-trafficking boat in the Caribbean continues, Admiral Frank Mitchell Bradley is expected to tell congressional leaders the reported survivors killed in the attack were “legitimate targets.

U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett’s expected entry into the Texas Democratic Senate primary has reshaped 2026’s marquee contest and further thrust the Lone Star State into the national spotlight. Crockett, a Dallas Democrat who in 2022 replaced the late Eddie Bernice Johnson in Congress,

(The Center Square) - The U.S. Senate voted Thursday to overturn a Biden-era policy that restricted oil and gas drilling in most of the Arctic Wildlife Refuge’s Coastal Plain, advancing a Trump administration effort to open the area to energy development.