The bill, which now advances to the House and full Senate, recommends funding the Education Department at $79 billion.

Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, who chairs the committee, also highlighted senators' decision to fund several programs for low-income households and students. But Democrats on the committee ...

Sen. Jon Ossoff says he helped defeat an effort to defund the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Today, the Senate Appropriations Committee passed its Fiscal Year 2026 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies bill with bipartisan support.

The Senate Appropriations Committee rejected the Trump administration’s massive proposed funding cut to the National ...

Today (7/31) the Senate's Labor-HHS-Education Finance Subcommittee declined to include CPB funding in its budget proposal.

WASHINGTON — House Republicans have sprinkled their fiscal 2026 appropriations bills with more home-district projects than they did last year though with slightly fewer funds allocated to earmarks ...

This announcement isn’t a guarantee, as the appropriations bill still has to pass the full Senate and House intact ...

A bipartisan pair of senators introduced legislation Thursday calling for tens of billions of dollars in aid for Ukraine to be spent over the next two years, as Russian President Vladimir Putin ...

Affordable housing is a basic human need and rental assistance is proven to make housing more affordable. But a House committee recently passed a bill that could result in about 411,000 fewer ...

Senators from both parties endorsed a $400 million increase to the budget of the National Institutes of Health on Thursday ...

A powerful U.S. Senate committee approved a military spending bill on Thursday that includes about $1 billion to support ...