House Speaker Mike Johnson met his deadline for President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill," but now it is up to the ...

The GOP’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act has moved to the Senate to be considered for debate and possible revision. While ...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) will fight to strike a provision making gun silencers more easily accessible ...

The 'One Big Beautiful Bill,' a comprehensive legislative package, has cleared the House of Representatives and now faces ...

An unexpected issue has emerged as the 'big, beautiful’ budget bill is debated in the Senate—whether or not states can ...

Senator Robert C. Byrd, democrat from West Virgina and the longest-serving senator in American history, died Monday at the age of 92. Jan. 30, 2003: Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va, left, and Sen.

The so-called Byrd Rule lets bills pass the upper chamber with simple majorities, but it limits those bills to budgetary matters.

Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough will be arbiter of whether key provisions in the House-passed "big, beautiful bill" keep ...

Robert Byrd of West Virginia, who the post identifies as a "KKK leader." The post, which had been shared more than 1,400 times by Aug. 15, was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat ...

Reporting from Washington — Robert Carlyle Byrd, the West Virginia Democrat who was often called the conscience of the Senate for his devotion to the system of constitutional checks and balances ...

A photograph purportedly showing former Senator Robert Byrd wearing Ku Klux Klan robes has been circulating online for several years, but the image is demonstrably fake. While Byrd was a member of ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...