Senate Session
The Senate continued work on House-passed legislation to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) for two years. Section 702 allows the U.S. to monitor for…
View in Congressional Chronicle893 viewsThe Senate continued work on House-passed legislation to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) for two years. Section 702 allows the U.S. to monitor for…
View in Congressional Chronicle893 viewsHomeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testified on President Biden’s fiscal year 2025 budget request before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee. He responded to Sen. John Kennedy’s…
1,230 viewsThe Senate confirmed Dennis Hankins’s nomination for U.S. ambassador to Haiti. Mr. Hankins was nominated by President Biden in May 2023, and the Port-au-Prince-based post had been without a …
View in Congressional Chronicle870 viewsThe Senate approved a House-passed six-bill government spending package to avert a partial shutdown at midnight and fund a portion of the government through the end of the fiscal year on Sep…
View in Congressional Chronicle1,945 viewsMaria Muyad and Elise Cataldo, two young girls living with Type 1 diabetes, testified on their experience living with the disease before the Senate Appropriations Committee as members of the…
808 viewsSecretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin testified on President’s Biden’s $106 billion emergency aid request that would provide military and humanitarian assistan…
4,055 viewsThe Senate confirmed Margaret Garnett’s nomination to be a U.S. District Court judge for Southern New York. In a 44-51 vote, lawmakers also failed to advance Jose Javier Rodriguez’s nominati…
View in Congressional Chronicle297 viewsThe Senate met for a period of morning business. No votes were taken in this portion.
View in Congressional Chronicle2,767 viewsHomeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra testified on President Biden’s multibillion-dollar supplemental funding requests for the…
3,378 viewsDr. Monica Bertagnolli, nominee to be director of the National Institutes of Health, testified at her confirmation hearing before the Senate Health Committee. She answered senators' question…
1,810 viewsThe Senate completed work on and passed a three-bill package for fiscal year 2024 federal spending for the Departments of Agriculture, Housing and Urban Development, Transportation, and Vete…
View in Congressional Chronicle3,325 viewsThe Senate confirmed two nominations: Julia Kathleen Munley, U.S. district judge for the Middle District of Pennsylvania; and Karla Gilbride, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission general …
View in Congressional Chronicle384 viewsFollowing leadership remarks on the death of Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), who passed away the previous evening, lawmakers continued working on legislation to extend funding through Novem…
View in Congressional Chronicle2,527 viewsThe Senate continued work on a short-term spending bill to avert a government shutdown on September 30 at midnight. The bipartisan measure would extend current funding levels until November …
View in Congressional Chronicle464 viewsThe Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee held a hearing on U.S. competitiveness amid recent advances in artificial intelligence. Witnesses included Energy Department Deputy Secretar…
651 viewsEnergy industry stakeholders and policy advocates testified before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on the reliability of the U.S. power grid. Topics included regulations by…
1,857 viewsChild care policy advocates and early childhood educators testified on child care access and affordability in the U.S. before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. Sev…
1,005 viewsSurgeon General Vivek Murthy pointed to loneliness and social media as two areas of concern as drivers of the mental health crisis during his testimony on youth mental health before the Sena…
1,369 viewsDefense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair General Mark Milley testified on on the fiscal year 2024 Defense Department budget before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee.…
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