With Sens. Rand Paul and Thom Tillis opposed to the package, GOP leaders can afford only one more defection. And multiple ...

Hosted by Steering Committee Chairman Mike Lee (R-UT) at 6 p.m. in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Room of the United States Capitol, the forum will allow the candidates to make their case directly to ...

After the Senate call-buzzers had stopped one noon last week, a visiting minister delivered a timely invocation. Prayed the Rev. Robert W. Olewiler of Washington's Grace Reformed Church: ...

This year Johnson’s showy record-writing has been abetted considerably by the ineptness of Senate Republican leaders and the slow motion at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue.

Both Joe Biden and Lyndon Johnson were U.S. senators with a lot of power. Lyndon Johnson was Senate Majority Leader before being picked as vice president by John F. Kennedy.

Ted Cruz backs Rick Scott for Senate majority leader, snubbing fellow Texan John ... would be the first Senate majority leader from Texas since Lyndon B. Johnson more than 60 years ago. Wide ...

Here's when US Republican senators will vote on their next leader, and how Sen. John Cornyn, who's running, could boost Texas' power in Washington.

U.S. Sen. John Cornyn lost his bid Wednesday to become the first Texan to hold the powerful U.S. Senate majority leader post since Lyndon B. Johnson, losing the closed-door GOP vote just hours ...

With Republicans retaking the majority in the U.S. Senate this week, Texas Republican John Cornyn is in a position to fill a key role in Congress that no Texan has held since Lyndon B. Johnson ...