Republicans have since deployed the maneuver two other times. In 2017, Senate Republicans eliminated the filibuster for Supreme Court nominees in an effort to allow the GOP to confirm Justice Neil Gorsuch with a simple majority vote. They invoked the nuclear option again two years later to reduce debate for most presidential nominees.

A bipartisan bill offered Monday by Senate Banking Committee member Katie Britt, R-Ala., and Andy Kim, D-N.J., would force the Securities and Exchange Commission to update a 25-year-old threshold that holds small financial firms to higher regulatory standards.

Florida's goal following hurricanes isn't to restore areas to how they looked before storms hit. The goal is to build it back 'bigger and better.'

The US Senate has added a provision to its crypto bill confirming that tokenized stocks remain securities, preserving their fit within existing financial frameworks. The US Senate updated its crypto market structure bill on Friday, adding a key provision ...

Sen. Kristen Thompson received the Yolanda Charney Award for her work on antisemitism legislation in Oklahoma.

WASHINGTON — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will testify Thursday before a Senate panel, where he is expected to face pointed questions about his dismissal of the director of the Centers for Disease Control and changes to the nation’s vaccine ...

Kennedy faced questioning around CDC turmoil, vaccine policy. President Donald Trump reacted to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Senate Finance Committee testimony on Thursday, which came after a week of fast-moving shakeups at ...