A spokeswoman for the presidency of El Salvador, Wendy Ramos, did not respond to requests for information about Senator Van ...

The fierce post-election debate raging inside Democratic circles over whether the party's leadership needs a generational change is set to turbocharge if Sen. Dick Durbin retires.

The education bill is now heading to the Senate after the House gave approval on Thursday. If a deal is reached, though, the bill will become public, and lawmakers will debate it in each chamber ...

A U.S. Senate "vote-a-rama" marathon session headed into the early hours of Saturday, with the aim of eventually handing ...

The Senate Taxation Committee made headway on the property tax debate by moving several bills originating in the House ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate dived into contentious debate Friday on a budget plan critical to Republican efforts to pass ...

The House voted 68-39 on April 9 to pass a scaled-back version of a bill known as the Right to Play Act. It would partially override an existing rule of the Illinois High School Association that says ...

Some Republicans are uneasy that their party is pursuing a tactic that could weaken the filibuster and backfire in the future ...

Environmentalists objected to wording in the bill they said would enable golf courses and tennis courts to be built at Florida's state parks.

Lawmakers still have to sort through a lot of proposals for property tax relief. Now, they’re talking about how to get those ...