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CNN reports the Senate will vote Tuesday to take up the Green New Deal, but it is expected to be blocked by Democrats, who support many of the ideas in the climate plan but believe Republicans are trying to score political points by forcing a quick vote.

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A woman is knocking on the door of an enduring boys’ club in New Mexico politics, as Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver signals her interest in the 2020 race for U.S. Senate.

Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., announced Monday that he will not seek re-election in 2020 – vacating a seat he’s held since 2009 and ending a career in Washington that spans decades.

WASHINGTON — Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw of Texas floated the idea that New York City should attempt its own Green New Deal before the rest of the US if lawmakers such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are so passionate about it.

Sen. Tom Udall (D-N.M.) on Wednesday introduced the Senate version of the campaign finance, voting rights and ethics reform bill that House Democrats made their top priority. With all 47 Senate Democrats signed on as co-sponsors, Udall’s bill marks a newfound unanimity in the party in favor of estab

The House of Representatives fell short of the two-thirds majority needed to override President Donald Trump’s veto Tuesday, ensuring his national emergency to secure border wall funding continues.

A Senate panel on Wednesday approved the Texas Born-Alive Infant Protection Act, one of three anti-abortion bills that Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has listed among his priorities. All three have been approved by committees and sent to the full Senate.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., officially launched her presidential campaign on Sunday with a speech outside the Trump International Hotel and Tower in New York City, where she said she wants voters to know that no one in the Senate has done more than she to fight President Donald Trump.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Special Counsel Robert Mueller on Friday handed in a long-awaited report on his investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 presidential election and any potential wrongdoing by U.S. President Donald Trump, setting off a clamor from lawmakers in both parties for the document’

(CNN) President Donald Trump, in a closed door meeting Tuesday with Senate Republicans, again took a swipe at Puerto Rico's fiscal management and the size of its disaster relief in the wake of damaging storms last week -- and he brought a visual aid to try and back up his point, according to senator

Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke raised more than $6 million online during the first 24 hours after he announced his White House bid, the highest first-day number reported by any candidate so far, his campaign said Monday.

Sen. Lindsey Graham warned Democrats could suffer in future elections if they reach too far in investigations of President Trump. Graham likened it to how Republicans' investigations of Bill Clinton backfired in the late 1990s.

(Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has stepped up its attack on the Obamacare healthcare law, telling a federal appeals court it agrees with a Texas judge’s ruling that the entire law is unconstitutional and should be struck down.

As top House Democrats demanded the Department of Justice release special counsel Robert Mueller’s full report by next week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had a message for her caucus: Stay calm, cool, and collected. And don’t take your eyes off the prize.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) - New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas announced Thursday via radio show that the will not be running for U.S. Senate. The announcement comes after Senator Tom Udall declared that he will not seek re-election next year.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The acting head of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration will tell a congressional panel on Wednesday that the agency’s oversight approach must “evolve” after two fatal Boeing 737 MAX crashes since October, according to written testimony viewed by Reuters.

Two Egyptian actors were accused of "high treason" for holding a series of meetings with U.S. lawmakers this week about alleged violations by their current government. On Monday, Amr Waked and Khaled Abo El-Naga, along with human rights advocates, conducted a series of meetings in Washington, D.C. w

It is extremely easy not to quote from Adolf Hitler’s opus, Mein Kampf, when on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. In fact, hundreds of millions of Americans have never done that and have no intention of ever doing that.

ADDIS ABABA/JAKARTA/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The world’s biggest planemaker Boeing faced growing obstacles on Wednesday to returning its grounded 737 MAX fleet to the skies, while details emerged of an Indonesian crash with potential similarities to the Ethiopian disaster.

On Friday, President Trump vetoed a measure to block his national emergency declaration. The measure passed the House and Senate with bipartisan support. Numerous polls suggest Trump’s decision was popular among his Republican base. But his decision to use executive authority to fund a wall along th