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Sen. Tommy Tuberville has finally — albeit partially —surrendered his blockade on military appointments and confirmations. After a lunchtime meeting with members of the GOP on Tuesday, Tuberville (R-Ala.) announced that he would no longer be contesting the nomination of appointments for offices ranked three stars or below, but will …

A Senate subcommittee issued a subpoena to live music giant Live Nation Entertainment late last week, seeking documents related to ticket prices and fees listed on Ticketmaster. The subpoena, obtained by Rolling Stone, comes eight months after the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations first launched an inquiry into Live Nation …

Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne Mullin stood up and tried to fight a congressional witness during a Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP) Committee hearing on Tuesday. Mullin and Teamsters President Sean O’Brien have been beefing for months, with Mullin even challenging O’Brien to an MMA-style fight this summer. O’Brien had …

Laphonza Butler was sworn into the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, becoming the first openly LGBTQ person of color to serve in the upper chamber of Congress. The swearing-in comes days after California Gov. Gavin Newsom tapped Butler, the former president of the Democratic PAC Emily’s List, to fill the late …

California’s Dianne Feinstein, the longest-serving female senator in U.S. history and three-time mayor of San Francisco, died Thursday at the age of 90. An icon of Democratic politics who was planning to step down at the end of her term amid a series of health issues, she is being remembered …

New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez is facing a rapidly growing number of calls from his Democratic colleagues to resign from office following a damning indictment on charges of corruption and bribery. On Wednesday, Menendez pleaded not guilty to the charges during his arraignment in Manhattan court. The indictment, which was …

Sen. Bob Menendez declared on Monday that he did nothing wrong and that he plans to remain in office in the wake of a federal indictment on corruption and bribery charges. The Democrat from New Jersey insisted in his first public comments following the indictment that “prosecutors get it wrong …

Senator Susan Collins is threatening to wear a bikini to work. Why? Because Chuck Schumer has done something that threatens the very fabric of the republic: relaxing the Senate’s dress code in a move that would allow lawmakers like Pennsylvania’s John Fetterman to embrace their affinity for casual clothes without …

Three branches of the U.S. military are now without a Senate-confirmed leader, thanks to Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s freeze on approvals on military promotions. Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday officially retired Monday, and there’s no official replacement for his position. Earlier this month, Army Chief of Staff Gen. …

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) joked that he had been “sandbagged” hours after freezing during the start of a weekly Republican leadership press briefing and needing to be guided out of the room. McConnell returned to the press conference a few minutes later, and told reporters that he was …