Schumer and nine other Democrats crossed the aisle to advance the budget in a key procedural vote. The legislation only required a simple majority in the Senate chamber for final passage, and all but ...

() - U.S. Sens. Jacky Rosen and Catherine Cortez Masto, both D-Nevada, and their Democratic colleagues sent a letter to ...

SPRINGFIELD U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) and U.S. Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA), members of the Senate Agriculture Committee, along with ...

A local progressive advocacy group is calling for new leadership in the U.S. Senate after Minority Leader Chuck Schumer allowed a ...

Vermont Business Magazine As the Trump administration and Elon Musk attack public education in America by closing offices and laying off 1,300 workers at the Department of Education, Sen. Bernie ...

Senate Democrats called on the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to restore funding to local food banks and schools, ...

California Sens. Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff will vote “no” on the House-passed plan to keep the government running through ...

Alex Padilla, D-CA, surveys damage from the ... He will attend as the guest of California’s newest U.S. senator, Adam Schiff. “As the recovery process continues in Los Angeles, I hope to ...

The gray fox was released after being moved to an outdoor enclosure, a nonprofit said. Photo from San Diego Humane Society In the wake of a California wildfire, a badly injured fox wandered ...

Nobody won the grand prize, which rises to an estimated $295 million, with a cash value of about $139 million. Getty Images/iStockphoto Two Powerball tickets sold in California won $38,848 each ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Rules and ...