The finish line will come after a whirlwind of votes, nicknamed a "vote-a-rama," on what are expected to be dozens of ...

North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis announced he wouldn't seek reelection. He'll leave under the notion that Donald Trump ran ...

Democrat Colin Allred is once again running for the U.S. Senate. The former congressman from Dallas announced his candidacy ...

Rep. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) won one of the tightest races in the country on Monday, breaking a decades-long Republican winning streak to become the first female U.S. senator from Arizona. Sinema, a ...

Melissa Hortman is the first woman to lie in state, according to the Minnesota House of Representatives. Next to the Hortmans ...

Carol Moseley Braun is no stranger to stepping into new territory. She was the first Black woman elected to the U.S. Senate ...

Elizabeth MacDonough was appointed to the role in 2012 by Democrat Harry Reid of Nevada, Senate majority leader at the time.

California's state Democrats are shaking up leadership, with the Senate Democratic Caucus pledging unanimous support to Sen. Monique Limón (D-Santa Barbara), who will take over as Senate ...

For these liberal women, the future of Democratic politics is still female. There’s been a lot of anxiety over how Democrats should appeal to men or face certain defeat. But not everyone is worried.

Building the bench. In the first “Year of the Woman” in 1992, four Democratic women were elected to the Senate for the first time: Patty Murray of Washington, Carol Moseley Braun of Illinois ...

Durbin is now the fourth Senate Democrat to announce they will not seek reelection in 2026, joining Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, Sen. Tina Smith of Minnesota and Sen. Gary Peters of Michigan.