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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) was forced Friday to postpone the vote on the massive bipartisan Endless Frontier Act, which had been expected to easily breeze through the U.S. Senate, into the second week of June.

Pennsylvania’s 17th Congressional District will be a battleground in the 2022 midterm elections, according to a recent poll from the Coalition to Protect American Workers, regardless of if Rep. Conor Lamb (D-PA), the current representative, runs for the Senate.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) torched the extended jobless benefits on the Senate floor Monday afternoon, saying they are “holding back our economy.”

Ohio Republican Bernie Moreno, candidate for U.S. Senate, and Ric Grenell, former Trump administration cabinet member, told Breitbart News this weekend the U.S. needs Republicans who are fighters, not Republicans who have been sucked into the Washington media mob.

St. Louis attorney Mark McCloskey hinted Tuesday that he might seek the U.S. Senate seat in Missouri that Sen. Roy Blunt’s (R-MO) impending retirement will leave open.

Iowa Democrat Rep. Cindy Axne (D-IA) is “eyeing a run” for higher office as she narrows down her choices to challenge incumbent Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) as her first choice.

MSNBC anchor Lawrence O’Donnell said on his Monday show “The Last Word” that Democrats were abusing the reconciliation process to pass President Joe Biden’s infrastructure package.

Ex-House impeachment manager Eric Swalwell confirmed Friday he will sue former President Donald Trump, his son Donald Trump Jr., Rudy Giuliani and Republican Rep. Mo Brooks in a second major lawsuit seeking to hold Trump and his allies accountable for inciting the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6.

Former President Trump issued a statement in rebuttal to Mitch McConnell (R-KY), calling him a “business as usual” politician with “status quo policies” and “a dour, sullen and unsmiling political hack.”

Breitbart News readers weigh in on whether the January 2021 impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump has warranted their attention.

Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) led a letter Friday with 47 other pro-life senators to pledge to Democrat Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) they will be unified in blocking any bill that undermines pro-life protections, including one that would attempt to repeal the Hyde Amendment.

The Senate again rejected the Born-Alive legislation, which would require babies who survive an abortion to receive medical care.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) plans to make combatting climate change a “whole of Senate approach” for however long Democrats retain the majority.

A new progressive political group with ties to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is mobilizing to punish two moderate Senate Democrats for their refusal to support abolishing the filibuster.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said at a press conference on Thursday that Democrat majority in the House and Senate and Joe Biden in the White House means the stars are aligned to make the District of Columbia the 51st state.

Entertainment mogul Tyler Perry says he applied for a mail-in ballot for January’s Georgia Senate runoff elections, but it never arrived, and he had to fly back home to vote.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced Monday that a power-sharing agreement in the Senate no longer needs to stipulate that the filibuster rule remain intact after two Senate Democrats confirmed they would not support abolishing it.

President Joe Biden undercut the leadership of his own party in the United States Senate on Friday by signaling his continuing opposition to scrapping the legislative filibuster.

Former Rep. Doug Collins (R-GA) is seriously considering running again for the U.S. Senate in Georgia in 2022, a source with knowledge of his plans told Breitbart News exclusively.

Former Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) conceded to Democratic candidate, now Sen.-elect, Jon Ossoff late Friday, giving Democrats 50 seats in the United States Senate and effective control of that body as of January 20 when Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) is sworn in as vice president.

Sen. Patty Murray will head the Senate committee that oversees education as Democrats effectively take control of that chamber.

Publishing giant Simon & Schuster canceled U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley’s (R-MO) book Thursday after he participated in a constitutional effort to challenge the 2020 election results.

Vermont Gov. Phil Scott, a Republican, demanded President Donald Trump resign “or be removed” after protesters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday.

Sophia Bush called for the expulsion of Republican members of the Senate who said they intended to protest the results of the 2020 election.

The U.S. Senate session was abruptly suspended on Wednesday during a debate over elector objections after protesters were “in the building.”

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), one of the only moderate-to-conservative members of the Senate Democrat conference, is urging his colleagues to view their victories in the Georgia runoffs as an opportunity for a “new era of bipartisanship.”

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said Wednesday that Congress certifying President Donald Trump as the winner of the 2020 presidential election would result in a “death spiral” for the United States.

Sens. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) and Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) announced Tuesday that they will not object as Congress convenes Wednesday when it is expected to certify the Electoral College in favor of President-elect Joe Biden.

Democrats will turn America into a one-party country if they win the Senate runoff elections, President Donald Trump said Monday in Dalton, Georgia.

Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA), who is locked in a fierce U.S. Senate runoff election, will object to certifying the results of at least one state when Congress votes to certify the Electoral College on January 6, Fox News reports. 

Vice President-elect Kamala Harris addressed a drive-in rally in Georgia on Monday, urging potential voters to cast their ballots in the runoff election for U.S. Senate on January 5.

More than 40 national pro-life leaders are calling upon the U.S. Senate to vote “no” on Joe Biden’s choice of California Attorney General Xavier Becerra (D) as Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary.

The coronavirus relief package making its way through Congress includes a tax break for owners of racehorses.

“Coming to America 2” actress and “Supermarket Sweep” host Leslie Jones helped lead a fundraising event for Georgia Democrat candidates Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, during which she seemed to suggest that the pair give her a kind of hope in the political process that’s reminiscent of Martin Luther King, Jr. and John F. Kennedy.

President-elect Joe Biden’s choice to helm the Department of Energy, former Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D-MI), has a history of publicly promoting theories about Russian collusion in the 2016 election.

The chairman of the Macon-Bibb County Board of Elections in Georgia said the distribution of absentee ballots will not be “automatic” for the runoff.