Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” starring Jimmy Stewart as a naïve senator, explores the idealism — and reality — behind the tactic.

Congress will hold its first hearing in more than three years on a long-running push to make daylight saving time permanent in the United States.The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee will hold a hearing on April 10 on whether to end the practice of changing the clocks twice a year,

The Senate is expected to vote Wednesday on a measure aimed at blocking tariffs on Canadian products are set to take effect.

Passage would send a strong signal of bipartisan opposition to the levies, though the measure would face long odds in the House.

Whitaker, who previously served as interim U.S. attorney general in President Donald Trump's first term, was confirmed in a 52-45 vote Tuesday.

Rosario Dawson, who dated United States Senator Cory Booker from 2019 to 2022, reacted to his historically long Senate speech, which ran for just over 25 hours.

As NPR noted, “The longest filibuster on record was a 1957 speech by then-Democratic Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina — in opposition to the Civil Rights Act — that lasted for 24 hours and 18 minutes.” Technically, Booker’s speech was not a filibuster since the Senate wasn’t holding a debate over a specific bill or nominee.

First off, it was not a filibuster. But Booker's historic 24-hour speech broke the Senate record, and was a startling challenge to Trump’s agenda

Sen. Cory Booker has not sat down, or ever wandered far from his desk on the Senate floor, where he has been delivering a marathon speech railing against President Donald Trump and his administration's sweeping policy changes.