One of the first orders of business for each new Congress is securing committee assignments. Lawmakers are assigned to ...

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) has invoked the Senate’s “blue slip” tradition to block President Trump’s ...

Ed Martin, the Trump administration’s nominee to serve as US attorney for Washington, DC, failed to report hundreds of media ...

And, amid uncertainty about Congress’ role as a check on the executive branch, the Senate Judiciary Committee’s top Republican signaled that he would honor the longstanding chamber tradition allowing ...

Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, suggested an hypothetical — but explosive — ...

Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Wednesday that he'll use a Senate procedure that allows home state senators to object ...

Iowa, is asking the Department of Justice to look into whether two left-wing groups should have to register under FARA.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) sent a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Monday asking him to ...

The Senate Judiciary Committee chair has typically required that both home-state senators return blue slips for a nominee to the panel before moving that nominee to the floor. Blue-slip approval ...

For decades, heads of the Senate Judiciary Committee of both parties have sought the approval of home-state senators before moving ahead with the nominations of U.S. attorneys, waiting to proceed ...

A Republican state senator who leads the Alabama Legislature’s prison oversight committee said the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles refused for more than a year to answer the committee’s questions ...