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Sen. Joe Manchin this week called on President Biden to release his budget proposal so that Congress can find a bipartisan compromise that will cut spending.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., was the top recipient of political donations from BlackRock, a leading investment firm advocating for environmental, social and governance investing.

Two senators urged the Justice Department in a letter this week to continue investigating Ticketmaster and its parent company, Live Nation, for alleged anticompetitive conduct.

Sen. Maria Cantwell sent a letter to Southwest Airlines on Thursday, seeking a "full accounting" of how the airline is refunding customers after mass holiday cancellations.

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz pushed acting Federal Aviation Administrator Billy Nolen on a near-miss collision between two planes at an airport in Austin, Texas, this month.

Federal lawmakers rallied with representatives from the American Federation of Government Employees union on Tuesday to demand Congress pass an 8.7% pay increase for government workers.

IRS commissioner nominee Daniel Werfel is expected to tell a Senate committee that if he gets the job, he will not increase audits on those making less than $400,000.

Sen. John Kennedy spoke Tuesday at the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing on "Protecting Our Children Online," expressing concern about social media's effects on kids.

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., has introduced a bill that would implement an age requirement for social media usage and another that would study the harmful impact of social media on children

President Biden's beleaguered nominee for the Federal Communications Commission once played a major role in tanking a bipartisan deal on the agency's low-income broadband program.

Southwest Airlines COO Andrew Watterson faced lawmakers at a hearing Thursday, where Southwest Airlines Pilots Association President Cpt. Casey Murray testified that company leadership "failed to listen" to frontline employees ahead of last December's operational meltdown.

The Healthy Homes and Residential Electrification Amendment Act of 2023 would use federal funding from the Inflation Reduction Act to help households earning less than $80,000 make the switch to electric.

A bipartisan duo of senators sent a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg this week, questioning him about how much access Russian and Chinese developers had to private user data.

Elon Musk says Twitter will be more accepting of "different values" after reinstating the account of a senator after it was suspended for posting a hunting photo.

Sen. Joni Ernst is calling for an investigation into allegations that federal employees fraudulently claimed COVID-19 relief unemployment while still receiving taxpayer-funded paychecks.

Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley on Tuesday said he would introduce legislation to ban the short-form video social-media app TikTok in the United States.

Sen. Joe Manchin clarifies that the open press is "the bedrock for democracy," but extremist "bad behavior" should not be rewarded on social media platforms.