Oregon's Jeff Merkley spoke on the Senate floor all night long and into the evening on Oct. 22 to protest the Trump administration.

The United States Senate has confirmed Chad Meredith from Lexington to serve as a judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky.

Action News Now reporter Margot Rowe reports on the bipartisan effort by Democrat Adam Schiff of the Untied States Senate and Republican Doug LaMalfa of the United States House of

A longshot Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate has suspended her campaign and endorsed Maine Gov. Janet Mills. In a written statement on her campaign website Thursday, Daira Smith-Rodriguez, of Biddeford, also criticized past online comments by another Democratic candidate, Graham Platner, as “profoundly troubling and disqualifying.”

The Senate failed to advance two partisan bills that would have paid some federal workers during the shutdown. Democrats and Republicans remain deadlocked as the shutdown drags on.

The Senate has passed three pieces of legislation that support Dyess Air Force Base in Abilene, according to a news release from U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz's office.

“It’s probably no more distracting than trying to decide if you’re going to run for United States Senate,” Drinkwitz said, mocking the idea that Finebaum is linked to Senate run. “There’s a lot of different things out there that you’ve just got to factor in.”

The bipartisan bill, supported by United States Senator Alex Padilla of California, United States Senator John Curtis of Utah, United States Senator John Hickenlooper of Colorado, and United States Se