President-elect Barack Obama has announced he is resigning his Senate seat, effective Sunday. Obama was the Illinois junior senator for four years. It is now up to the state's Democratic governor ...

Besides other Newtown families, Obama was flanked by former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot in the head during a 2011 assassination attempt. Just hours before, the Senate voted 54 ...

The end of the year typically is a time for the Senate to come together and clear the decks of presidential nominees that have stacked up awaiting confirmation. This is not a typical year.

In defeating Republican Alan Keyes by the largest margin ever in a Senate contest here, the 43-year-old Obama becomes the only African-American elected this year to the world’s most powerful ...

Any doubt that Senate Republicans would hold the line behind their leader's decision to block President Obama's Supreme Court nominee has been erased. "I can now confidently say the view shared by ...

Republican Senate candidates in competitive races across the country sharply criticized the Obama administration’s response to the health care threat at the time. In October 2014, then-Rep.

• Senators representing between 29% and 39% of the U.S. population would be sufficient to maintain a filibuster in the Senate, and thus, in a sense, control what can be passed in the chamber.

It shouldn't have to be. Obama should run for Senate. He's only 60, after all. He's got at least two terms in him. Maybe three. In any blue state, Obama would clear the primary field and win the ...

WASHINGTON — The Senate long has been considered a poor springboard to the White House. But it provided a crucial step in the political rise of Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama ...