US Senate manoeuvres around Tommy Tuberville's abortion objections
The senator, who began holding up military appointments in February, argues that Democrats have caved.
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Why senators are fighting about their breeches again
Stacked up against the long and growing to-do list on which the House and Senate are making very little progress, this dress code flap seems like a distraction.
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Senate Republicans urge Schumer to enforce more formal dress code
Nearly every Senate Republican signed a letter sent to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Tuesday asking him to continue enforcing the Senate's previous, more formal unwritten dress code.
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Wearing shorts on the Senate floor? Americans may be OK with it
The US Senate is getting a makeover. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has told the sergeant-at-arms to no longer enforce the body's informal dress code for senators on the chamber floor. This means, for example, that male senators will no longer be forced to wear suits.
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U.S. Senate votes to open debate on first appropriations package
WASHINGTON The majority of the U.S. Senate voted on Thursday to open debate on its first appropriations package
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Tuberville's hold on military promotions would take hundreds of hours to process individually, memo says
It would take the Senate approximately 700 hours of floor time to individually process and vote on hundreds of military officers whose promotions are being blocked by Alabama Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville, the Congressional Research Service concluded in a memo released on Tuesday.
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Exclusive-Ex-hedge fund CEO McCormick to run for Senate in Pennsylvania - sources
By Jarrett Renshaw PHILADELPHIA Former hedge fund CEO Dave McCormick is planning to jump into the U.S. Senate
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Senator Tuberville: No truce over military blockade on abortion
Military leaders claim Tommy Tuberville's actions are a national security risk, but the senator is defiant.
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House-Senate GOP tension rises as shutdown fears grip Capitol
GOP Sen. Mitt Romney thinks a government shutdown is "very likely," citing the House for his pessimism.
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Mitch McConnell: From polio victim to political titan
The Kentucky senator has been behind many of his party's most consequential moments in Washington.
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Former Rep. Rogers expected to run for Senate seat in Michigan after being courted by GOP leaders
Mike Rogers, the former GOP congressman who chaired the House Intelligence Committee, is expected to soon announce he will run for the Senate in Michigan, giving Republican leaders a key recruit in a state Democrats need to hold to keep their narrow majority, according to two people familiar with his deliberations.
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Democrats recruit ex-congresswoman to challenge Sen. Rick Scott and test whether Florida is still a battleground
Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, a Democrat who once represented the Miami area in the US House, will run for Senate from Florida, the former congresswoman told CNN, ending a monthslong search by her party for a challenger to Republican Sen. Rick Scott next year.
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