The Senate voted on Tuesday to prohibit credit card companies from arbitrarily raising a person's interest rate and charging ...

Republican Senator Mitch McConnell discusses why tonight’s all night senate session is just “political theatre”.

David Corn, Washington bureau chief for Mother Jones Magazine, discusses the timing, motivation and political consequences of...

A major rebuke to President Barack Obama... The Senate votes overwhelmingly to block the transfer of Guantanamo detainees to ...

US Ambassador to Iraq, Ryan Crocker said a long-term agreement the US is now negotiating with Iraq will give a needed legal f...

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Virginia Senator and Vietnam vet Jim Webb was elected last year as a strong opponent of the Iraq war, while his own son was s...

5-8 (CNN) A Senate committee is conducting a hearing on cancer. Championship cyclist Lance Armstrong, who is a cancer survivo...

A sweeping healthcarereform bill passes its first U.S. Senate test, with a procedural vote to begin debate on the bill on Nov...

The Senate approves a landmark financial regulation bill... that would impose the most far-reaching restraints on big banks s...