As Republicans continue to fail to recruit high-profile candidates, Steele says it's up to Democrats to "seize the moment, the momentum and the messaging."

Senators are fiercely protective of the longstanding precedent that gives them deference over who serves as U.S. attorneys and district court judges back home.

An Iowa Democratic state lawmaker is bowing out of the 2026 U.S. Senate primary race and endorsing a colleague as the “best hope” to unseat Republican U.S. Sen.

House Republicans and the governor have each put forward separate plans to inject roughly $3 billion in additional funding into the state’s roads each year. Senate Democrats have not proposed a plan.

Around the country, President Donald Trump is circumventing the Senate to install top federal prosecutors, using loopholes to keep loyalists in place. In U.S. attorney’s offices in Los Angeles, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico and upstate New York ...

A second special session that has made approving the map a priority started Friday, shortly after the first one ended.

The Texas House wasn’t in session Tuesday but the Senate was. Lawmakers gave final approval to a handful of bills, including some controversial ones.

Democrat Sherrod Brown, the gravelly-voiced Democrat known for his rumpled suits and working-class values, is seeking a return to the Senate after losing his reelection bid last year.

Georgia legislators have been reducing the individual and corporate income tax rate for years — it will fall to 5.19% this year under a law signed by Gov. Brian Kemp in April, down from 5.75% in 2022. Those rate cuts have been made possible in part by big post-pandemic budget surpluses.