The U.S. Senate has been dysfunctional for decades. There has been a lack of debate on bills thanks to procedural tactics ...

HARTFORD - The General Assembly's tradition of unlimited debate was a theme of the Senate's afternoon-long session on Wednesday, when bills that easily passed the House but died without votes in the ...

The Senate will on Thursday consider and debate, clause by clause, the report of its committee on electoral matters, with electronic transmission of election results topping key recommendations ahead ...

The Alabama Senate opened the 2026 legislative session. The Alabama Senate opened the 2026 legislative session with a relatively quiet first week, as lawmakers moved quickly through a light calendar ...

Sen. Troy McKeown tried and failed Wednesday to resurrect a bill that sought to pull sexually-explicit books from children’s ...

A proposal to bar law enforcement officers from wearing face-concealing masks during public interactions drew significant attention Tuesday during its first hearing before the Washington Senate Law & ...

Florida House Republicans are advancing a proposal that could ask voters to significantly scale back homestead property taxes, but the measure faces an uncertain future in the Senate.

The relationship between Senate Republicans and Democrats soured in 2025 after the Republican majority cut off debate and passed several initiatives that Democrats opposed, including redistricting and ...

The DHS funding bill passed the House, but when will the Senate vote again to end the partial government shutdown? Here's the ...