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Trump ally Mike Collins launches key battleground state bid to flip Democrat-held Senate seat
Conservative lawmaker Mike Collins enters Georgia's 2026 Senate race against Jon Ossoff, showcasing his Trump endorsement and ...
Senate confirms Trump’s pick for counterterrorism agency, a former Green Beret with extremist ties
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate confirmed President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the National Counterterrorism Center, Joe Kent, ...
GOP Senate leader rejects Trump call for end to bipartisan judicial nomination tradition
Senate Majority Leader John Thune on Wednesday rejected President Donald Trump’s call to disregard a Senate tradition to ...
Republicans consider changing Senate rules to speed confirmation of Trump nominees
The GOP leader is facing his own pressure from Trump, who has publicly called on Republicans to cancel the August recess to ...
Senate committee advances Trump nominee to lead cybersecurity agency that protects election systems
A Senate committee has advanced the nomination of President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure ...
Senate GOP threatens confirmations rule change amid Democrats' "path of obstruction" on Trump's nominees
Senate Republicans are mulling a possible rule change to allow them to more swiftly confirm President Trump's nominees amid ...
Senate confirms Trump pick Susan Monarez as head of CDC. What to know about her
The Senate confirmed Susan Monarez as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Monarez was confirmed ...
Grassley dismisses Trump’s ‘personal insults’ over Senate blue slips
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) bristled at President Donald Trump‘s calls to abandon a bipartisan tradition on judicial nominees, ...
Senate bill to ban lawmaker stock trading moves step forward – and Trump turns on Hawley
Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley voted with Democrats Wednesday to advance his bill to ban US lawmakers from stock ...
Senate confirms Trump nominee Susan Monarez as CDC director
Monarez is the first CDC director nominee who required Senate confirmation after Congress passed a law requiring it in 2022 ...
Senate Democrat accuses colleagues of being ‘complicit’ with Trump: ‘A lot of us want to f—— fight’
Angrily screaming at two of his shocked Democratic colleagues, his words all but reverberating off the chamber walls, Booker ...