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State Senate President Karen Spilka created a HERstory ... “Either by accident or design, women were left out of the building,” Spilka, an Ashland Democrat, said. “Women have played such ...
BOSTON — The idea came to Senate President Karen Spilka a few years ... “Either by accident or design, women were left out of the building,” Spilka, an Ashland Democrat, said.
A Senate vote to scrap President Trump’s wide-ranging “Liberation Day” tariffs narrowly failed on Wednesday, sparing Republicans a second consecutive blow as the president’s trade policy ...
It passed the Senate by a vote of 52 to 46. “The Biden era Department of Energy put additional testing components, labeling components for energy standards on all of these appliances,” Husted ...
The bill, SB218, passed a Senate committee vote and will proceed to the full Senate. If passed, the bill would allow those convicted by non-unanimous juries to seek post-conviction relief and ...
The Senate rejected a resolution Wednesday aimed at overturning President Donald Trump‘s global tariff emergency, a legislative win for the White House after a similar measure passed four weeks ...
The Senate on Thursday approved an effort to overturn an Environmental Protection Agency rule tied to the Clean Air Act and designed to limit seven of the most hazardous air pollutants that are ...
Washington — An effort aimed at blocking President Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs in the Senate amid anxiety over how the wide-ranging tariffs could disrupt the U.S. economy fell short on ...
Sen. Valarie J. Lawson was elected as Senate president Tuesday, succeeding the late Dominick J. Ruggerio. The longtime Rhode Island lawmaker died last week after a battle with cancer and other ...
Vice President JD Vance traveled to Capitol Hill late Wednesday to cast a tie-breaking vote in the Senate that killed a bipartisan effort to rebuke President Donald Trump’s trade policy.
In a party-line vote on Wednesday, the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations advanced Brian Burch’s nomination for U.S. ambassador to the Holy See to the full Senate for final confirmation.
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump narrowly avoided a rebuke from the U.S. Senate on his tariffs due to one Democratic senator's absence. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I. and Sen. Mitch ...