BALTIMORE — The Maryland Senate honored Baltimore County Executive Kathy Klausmeier Thursday for her decades of work in both chambers of the General Assembly. “I have a speech writer, and she wrote me ...

What if, instead of spending years constructing a billion-dollar prison, and locating it in a community that doesn’t want it at a site that seems ill-suited, the state partnered with counties to ...

Kannan Srinivasan (D) has defeated Republican Tumay Harding in the special election to fill the seat representing the state Senate’s 32nd ... is located in Loudoun County outside of Washington ...

WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — The U.S. Senate is gearing up for a busy week of confirmation hearings for President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet picks next week. Nominees were on Capitol Hill Tuesday ...

Shaneka Henson (D) for the county’s vacant District 30 state Senate seat. Henson prevailed by a 10-9 vote over her fellow District 30A delegate, Dana Jones (D), and her name will be forwarded to ...

US Vice President-elect JD Vance was hospitalised for a minor sinus surgery on Friday after attending the Senate's swearing-in ceremony. The surgery was conducted at George Washington Hospital in ...

A Douglas County Republican vacancy committee on Saturday chose a former University of Colorado regent to become the next lawmaker representing Senate District 30. CU Regent John Carson will succeed ...

New Senate Majority Leader John Thune, a South Dakota Republican, opened the two-year Senate session Friday with a vow to keep the filibuster. The filibuster is a controversial legislative tactic ...

With the start of the 119th Congress on Friday, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott has become the longest-serving Black US senator. Scott will also serve as the first Black chairman of a Senate ...

After being sworn in for a six-year term, Burbank Democrat Adam Schiff set a record for being the only senator in the history of the U.S. Senate to have taken the oath of office three separate ...

Tim Scott of South Carolina is poised to make history as the longest-serving African American in the 235-year history of the U.S. Senate ... elected to Charleston County Council, to the South ...