First off, it was not a filibuster. But Booker's historic 24-hour speech broke the Senate record, and was a startling ...

Pending Connecticut legislation would force local political candidates to file finance data with election regulators and ...

US senators engage in lengthy speeches when they are losing. This is clearly what motivated Cory Booker’s 25-hour speech: a ...

With vandalism and arsons of Tesla cars becoming more common across the country, the legislature’s Conservative Caucus called ...

Nine Republicans voted against their House speaker on proxy voting for new parents—causing him to abandon all plans for the ...

The Democrat, 55, who has been attacking cuts under the Trump administration, vowed to keep going "as long as I am physically able." ...

A bipartisan piece of legislation aimed at combating illegal blockchain activities has been reintroduced to the U.S. House of ...

National Nurses United, the nation’s largest union of registered nurses, announced its support for the Workplace Violence ...

In the 19th-century, Harriet Livermore boldly defended a women’s right to speak in the church and pulpit.

Some in the GOP advocate using a "current policy baseline," which assumes the 2017 tax cuts are already permanent, allowing ...

Connecticut would finally allow Sunday hunting with firearms under legislation approved Friday that next heads to the House ...

Democratic senator Cory Booker broke the record for the longest speech on the US Senate floor with a marathon critique of ...