Senate

Jim Smith lies on a hospital bed during a demonstration of the wireless Carecast health information system June 11, 2003 in Hollywood, Florida. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Doctors ‘terrified’ of electronic record adoption

Robert King · June 10, 2015 5:29 pm

"We're certainly not going to be able to be doing big, comprehensive tax reform with this president," McConnell said in an interview with the publication Morning Consult posted online Sunday. (Getty Image)

Hope for tax reform fades

Joseph Lawler · June 9, 2015 4:01 am

Republicans struggle to find female Senate candidates

Red Alert Politics

Republicans struggle to find female Senate candidates

Ryan Girdusky · June 3, 2015 9:14 pm

The Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee on Wednesday previewed three bills that would delay or handcuff the smog standards.Â EPA science advisors and a children's health panel had unanimously recommended tougher standards to protect the public, especially children and the elderly, from serious respiratory problems caused by breathing ground-level ozone. (David McNew/Getty Images)

Energy and Environment

Ozone limit comes under fire as GOP plots attack

Zack Colman · June 3, 2015 5:43 pm

White House getting antsy on Patriot Act extension

White House getting antsy on Patriot Act extension

Nicole Duran · May 29, 2015 3:13 pm

IRS Commissioner John Koskinen will testify at aÂ Senate Finance Committee hearing next Tuesday, June 2, to examine how criminals were able to steal the data of 100,000 taxpayers directly from the IRS' website. (AP Photo)

Senate panel to grill IRS over data breach

Pete Kasperowicz · May 27, 2015 10:37 pm

BIGGS, CA - MAY 08: Water flows in an irrigation canal on May 8, 2015 in Biggs, California. As California enters its fourth year of severe drought, farmers are struggling to keep crops watered as wells run dry and government water allocations have been reduced or terminated. Many have opted to leave acres of their fields fallow. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Energy and Environment

EPA issues new rule expanding reach over waters

Zack Colman · May 27, 2015 2:44 pm

Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., co-sponsored the bill, which would hold accountable any trade-pact country that is deemed to be manipulating its currency. (Getty File Photo)

Senate rejects ‘poison pill’ currency amendment to trade bill

Susan Ferrechio · May 22, 2015 10:24 pm

Christie, Jeb Defend NSA Against Rand Protest

Michael Warren · May 22, 2015 1:05 pm

A radioactively-contaminated container at a nuclear power plant. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Energy and Environment

Senate panel advances energy and water spending bill

Zack Colman · May 21, 2015 6:01 pm

Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., talks with reporters before heading into the weekly GOP policy luncheon at the U.S. Captiol on Feb. 3, 2015 in Washington. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Energy and Environment

Senate bill would increase basic energy research

Zack Colman · May 20, 2015 5:03 pm

Recent developments have given Yucca Mountain supporters hope that the stalemate hanging over the project is almost over. (AP Photo)

Energy and Environment

Senate spending bill lacks funding for Yucca nuclear waste storage

Zack Colman · May 19, 2015 6:30 pm