Congress has until the end of the week to send the bill to Trump's desk, but the path forward for the rescissions package ...

The Senate passed $9 billion in cuts to federal spending, including spending on foreign aid and to NPR and PBS.

F rom one trailblazer to another: U.S. Sen. Andy Kim of New Jersey, who joined the Senate earlier this month, shared in a social media post that his Senate floor desk is inscribed with the name of ...

And that little leeway in the rules helped lead to the tradition of the Senate candy desk, which began in the 1960s when actor-turned-senator George Murphy, R-Calif., served on Capitol Hill.

There’s one place to get a sugar fix: It’s known as the “candy desk,” which has been assigned to Senator Patrick J. Toomey, Republican of Pennsylvania, since 2015.

Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) Senate desk on Monday was draped in a black cloth and adorned with a vase of white roses following his death over the weekend. Cindy McCain, the wife of the Arizona ...

There’s a Senate rule against eating in the chamber, so he quietly hid hard candy in his desk, where he secretly enjoyed it during long, dull debates. In 1968, Murphy was assigned a new desk.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who began his career in Congress within two years of McCain, also took the floor to commemorate the late senator. He urged bipartisanship in McCain's honor.

And that little leeway in the rules helped lead to the tradition of the Senate candy desk, which began in the 1960s when actor-turned-senator George Murphy, R-Calif., served on Capitol Hill.