By KEVIN FREKING WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate confirmed President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Labor on Wednesday just before heading home to campaign for the midterm elections. Keith Sonderling, who was confirmed 47-41, has been the…
By MARY CLARE JALONICK WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky says he’ll be voting in the Senate on Monday for the first time since June 14, when he was hospitalized for a fall in his home. McConnell’s three-month absence from…
By KEVIN FREKING WASHINGTON (AP) — Key senators unveiled a short-term spending bill on Sunday that would keep federal agencies funded past the midterm elections and into early December as they look to avoid a government shutdown during the middle of…
By MICHAEL CASEY and MARY CLARE JALONICK WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate passed a bipartisan housing bill on Monday that aims to reduce federal regulations and expand local control, one of the most sweeping efforts in recent decades to increase supply and bring…
By MICHAEL CASEY and MARY CLARE JALONICK WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate is set to pass a bipartisan housing bill on Monday that aims to bring down prices and increase supply in one of the most sweeping efforts in recent decades to reduce…
By MARY CLARE JALONICK and JOEY CAPPELLETTI WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate passed legislation to fund President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement agencies early Friday, after weeks of delays and fierce backlash to an unrelated $1.776 billion settlement fund that threatened to derail the bill. Senators…
By MARY CLARE JALONICK, JOEY CAPPELLETTI and KEVIN FREKING WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans cleared the first hurdle on Thursday as they are struggling to pass legislation to fund President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement agencies, narrowly beating back a Democratic effort to permanently block…
By KIM CHANDLER MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — US Rep. Barry Moore and former Navy SEAL Jared Hudson advanced to a runoff on Wednesday for the Republican nomination for the open U.S. Senate seat in Alabama. Moore is a three-term congressman endorsed by…
By STEPHEN GROVES WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate advanced legislation Tuesday that seeks to force President Donald Trump to withdraw from the Iran war, as a growing number of Republicans defied the president’s wishes. Since Trump ordered the attack on Iran at the…
By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and MARY CLARE JALONICK WASHINGTON (AP) — Senators unanimously approved a resolution Thursday to withhold their pay during government shutdowns, an attempt to make federal closures financially painful for lawmakers after a string of record-breaking impasses in the past year. The…
By MARY CLARE JALONICK WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate took the first steps in a new effort to reopen the Department of Homeland Security early Thursday, voting to adopt a budget plan that would fund ICE and Border Patrol over Democratic…
JACKSON, Miss. (WXXV)- The 2026 legislative session ended on a surprising note. Initially lawmakers passed a budget, approved spending bills, and enacted new laws. Legislators were called back to Jackson…
By LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate early Friday morning approved Homeland Security funds to pay Transportation Security Administration agents and most other agencies, but not the immigration enforcement operations at the heart of the budget impasse that has jammed airports, disrupted travel…
By LISA MASCARO and KEVIN FREKING WASHINGTON (AP) — With pressure mounting, senators moved quickly Thursday to debate a “last and final” offer to end the funding impasse that has jammed airports and put the livelihoods of Transportation Security Administration workers in jeopardy as Republicans try to…
By CHARLOTTE KRAMON, ALEX VEIGA and MARY CLARE JALONICK WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate passed a broad bill on Thursday to make U.S. housing more accessible and affordable, a rare bipartisan effort in Congress to address a growing national problem. The bill, which passed…
JACKSON, Miss. (WXXV)- The Mississippi State Senate has passed one of the state House’s teacher pay raise bills, after a series of amendments and debates over teacher pay this legislative session. Lt. Governor Delbert Hoseman’s office says today that the…
JACKSON, Miss. — The Mississippi State Senate has passed substantial funding for the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) along with multiple bills to strengthen Mississippi’s education system, including a teacher pay raise, reducing restrictions on retired teachers returning to work, and making…
By LISA MASCARO, MARY CLARE JALONICK and MATT BROWN WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans hauled President Donald Trump’s big tax breaks and spending cuts bill to passage Tuesday on the narrowest of margins, pushing past opposition from Democrats and their…
Mississippi lawmakers have passed a budget and have adjourned the special session called for that matter. The Senate gave its approval to the budget at the end of day one of the session, leaving it to the House to complete…
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG/Mississippi Today Updated 11:12 AM CST, February 21, 2025 The Senate Finance Committee voted Thursday to advance legislation to reduce the state income tax and the sales tax on groceries while raising the gasoline tax. Republican senators voted to…
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG/Mississippi Today The Mississippi Senate passed a bill Thursday that would eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion programs from the state’s universities, a priority elevated by Republican President Donald Trump. Senate Republicans passed the bill with a party line 34-14…
The U.S. Senate just passed Congress’ annual defense bill, the Fiscal Year 2025 National Defense Authorization Act. The legislation includes numerous Mississippi priorities. The bill passed the House last week and now heads to President Joe Biden's desk for signature.…
By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press The House has passed a temporary spending bill that would keep federal agencies funded when the new fiscal year begins next Tuesday while punting final decisions on spending for the next budget year until after…
Do you have a high school student interested in politics? The United States Senate has a program for juniors and seniors! The U.S. Senate Youth Program is…