WASHINGTON -- During the fall months of 2010, congressional Democrats grew increasingly alarmed that conservative non-profit groups, backed by big-mon...

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) took to the Senate floor Wednesday to remind Americans that the Internal Revenue Service's inappropriat...

WASHINGTON -- God will not save us, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) declared in a Senate floor speech on climate change Wednesday that sounded more l...

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is making dinner plans with more lawmakers, this time with Democrats. The White House says Obama is having ...

WASHINGTON -- At a congressional hearing on Tuesday convened by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), officials from the Justice Department and the Intern...

With this tax, we hold the Wall Street Bankers accountable, all the while making our communities stronger. And that's why we're taking action.

Republicans argue that our revenue discussion should be over. They'll say that we already agreed to raise tax rates a little bit on the rich, so now we should only be cutting spending. But they ignore that America gives away through the tax code just as much money as it collects.

WASHINGTON -- The Senate on Monday approved legislation that would allow the State Department to transfer $1.1 billion to improve security at U.S. emb...

WASHINGTON -- Seventy-three years ago to the day, Ida May Fuller of Ludlow, Vt., was issued the first Social Security check. "It wasn't that I exp...

WASHINGTON -- Jill Kelley, a central figure in the sex scandal involving former CIA Director David Petraeus, tried to parlay her friendship with the g...

WASHINGTON -- A group of progressive lawmakers led by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Thursday called for protecting Social Security and Medicare benef...

The largest hope of 2012 surely rests not with the president, but with those senators of political skill and passion who have been elected or reelected. They may give the party a backbone it has missed in recent years.

WASHINGTON -- Thirteen senators from seven states damaged by Superstorm Sandy are asking President Obama to boost federal disaster aid to the states. ...

Barry Hinckley, a Republican businessman running for Rhode Island Senate, was projected loser of the election on Tuesday night. Hinckley's projecte...

Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse was projected winner in the Rhode Island Senate race on Tuesday night by major networks. Whitehouse wins a secon...

WASHINGTON -- One of the most prominent progressive groups in the country is launching a major voter outreach effort on behalf of 20 congressional cam...

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), who recently led a two-day vigil on the Senate floor to press unsuccessfully for a bill that would req...

For one Republican Senate hopeful, the perks of running for office don't stop at fulfilling a sense of civic duty -- the race is good for business, to...

WASHINGTON -- Senate Democrats, battered by a tsunami of independent campaign spending and without legislative recourse, promoted a constitutional ame...

WASHINGTON -- A bill that would have forced unlimited secret campaign spending out into the open was blocked by Republican leaders because they see th...

WASHINGTON -- Senate Republicans blocked a bill Monday evening to increase transparency in campaign spending by independent groups. In a 51-44 vote...