The Senate’s over 24-hour-long session to pass the tax and spending bill concluded with a tie-breaking vote from Vice ...

Today’s vote in the U.S. Senate, on Trump’s big bill, was dramatic. In the chamber, it was even more so. The Senate passed ...

A couple years after completing his tenure as the first official historian of the U.S. House of Representatives, Ray Smock ...

Elizabeth MacDonough, the Senate Parliamentarian, has flagged a growing list of provisions that would be prohibited under the ...

Days before the deadline, the parliamentarian in the U.S. Senate is stripping portions of President Donald Trump's tax and budget bill, referred to as the "one big beautiful bill," after ruling that ...

Congress made its own New Year’s resolution: achieve fiscal discipline through the Budget Control and Impoundment Act. Like ...

By skirting the Senate parliamentarian’s power to police the boundaries of reconciliation bills, the GOP is putting the ...

<p>Updated: July 19, 2010</p><p>Robert C. Byrd, a Democrat from West Virginia, was a Senator for 51 years and a member of the House for 6, making him the longest-serving member of the Senate and ...

The Robert C. Byrd Center for Congressional History & Education held an open house on Saturday to introduce its new director, archivist and administrative assistant to the public. Founding director ...

It concerns bills that affect government revenue, and there are constraints. One major obstacle is the "Byrd Rule," named ...

Robert Byrd made history this week when he took the coroner’s oath of office for the 10th time, making him the longest serving elected official in Houston County history.

<p>Updated: July 19, 2010</p><p>Robert C. Byrd, a Democrat from West Virginia, was a Senator for 51 years and a member of the House for 6, making him the longest-serving member of the Senate and ...