Key Senate Republicans are resisting the House’s plan to gut clean energy tax credits, vowing to soften the blow for emerging technologies and nuclear power. The pushback comes after House ...

The Galactic Senate has a fair amount of screen time in Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, which recently completed a successful weeklong theatrical rerelease celebrating its upcoming 20th anniversary.

By Shane Goldmacher Shane Goldmacher is a national political correspondent who has covered Senate races since 2012. Senator Chuck Schumer and his allies are working aggressively to stretch a ...

Senate lawmakers will be joining their colleagues in the House by filing a budget proposal that does not include any new tax proposals. Senate President Karen Spilka said Sunday that the upper ...

This week, the Senate voted to undo two Energy Department rules for appliances finalized during the Biden administration, sending the bills to President Donald Trump to sign into law.

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 ...

In a time when conservative voters are calling for reductions in government spending, the Republican-controlled state Senate found a way reduce the state spending plan in the upcoming budget year.

Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) will not run for a sixth term in the Senate, clearing the way for a younger crop of Democrats to compete for his seat. Durbin, 80, announced Wednesday that ...

(WJAR) — A powerful figure in Rhode Island politics has died. Senate President Dominick Ruggerio passed away early Monday morning at the age of 76, after he went back into the hospital last week ...

The Senate passed a framework for a sweeping bill promoting President Donald Trump's agenda after an hourslong series of amendment votes during which Democrats sought to put Republicans on record ...

The Senate kicked off a marathon vote series on Friday night, which Republicans need to get through in order to approve their changes to the House's plan for President Donald Trump's budget.

Senate Republicans are poised to kick off the voting process for advancing the blueprint on President Trump’s “big, beautiful” agenda package on tax cuts, border security, energy production ...