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Republicans and Democrats showed their support for Social Security and Medicare during the State of the Union. But agreement on broader reform will be tough.

As the new chairman of the Senate committee that oversees health and labor issues, Vermont Sen_ Bernie Sanders says some corporations “should be nervous.”.

U.S. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh is expected to leave the Biden administration to run the National Hockey League Players’ Association.

Bitter divisions dominated a recent national Republican Party gathering.

'The Five' co-hosts discuss Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders charging big bucks to attend his upcoming anti-capitalism event in Washington, D.C.

While incumbent Independents and Democrat senators topped the list for the most cash on hand, GOP incumbents Sens. Rick Scott and Ted Cruz raised the most cash during the year-end quarter.

Vermont independent Senator Bernie Sanders was mocked online for selling tickets to his anti-capitalism speech and book event on Ticketmaster for nearly $100.

Tickets for an anti-capitalism event being headlined by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., will cost those who want a front row seat nearly $100.

The former Democrat from Arizona went to Davos to decry the two-party system, but it is essential to getting things done in Washington.

Fifteen senators signed a letter to Southwest CEO Bob Jordan demanding answers about the airline's year-end meltdown.

Sanders, the incoming chair of the Senate health committee, called the price increase "outrageous" in a letter to Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel.

Republicans and Democrats are being forced to confront critical questions about the people and policies they want to represent them as the next election season roars into view.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg faces pressure across the political spectrum as tens of thousands of Americans remain stranded at airports across the nation.

In an usual intra-party clash, President Biden has threatened to veto a Democratic-led bill that aims to curtail U.S. cooperation with the Saudi military.

Sen. Bernie Sanders said he may support a Democrat in 2024 if any challenge newly registered Independent Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema after she left the Democratic Party.

Many members of Congress have said Sinema's switch likely won't impact the Democrats' narrow control of the U.S. Senate.

A few lines of code may have led to the 2020 Iowa caucuses’ spectacular failure, but the issues that doomed an American tradition festered for years.

Faiz Shakir said of Sanders in an interview with CBS News that if it were an open field, "I'm confident he would take another look at it and say, 'Do I want to do this or not?'"

The majority of top Democratic contenders for the 2024 presidential race are silent when asked by Fox News Digital if they would support President Biden in a second term.

Asked what happened to his one-time supporter, Sen. Bernie Sanders dramatically threw his hands up. Others say she's showing her true colors.

The Iowa caucuses and their outsize importance have largely been an exercise in myth-making.

Michigan is expected to be the Midwest representative among the first five states selecting the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee.

In trying to prevent a work stoppage that could've threatened the fragile economy, Biden risks alienating his key allies: labor activists and workers.

The top two primary states have long been much whiter than the party.

The Senate voted on Thursday to reject a proposal to give railway workers seven days of sick leave, a benefit that was left out of a labor deal between freight rail companies and unionized workers that was brokered by the Biden administration. The proposal to give workers seven days of sick leave, which was championed by Sen.…

House votes to pass bill forcing rail labor deal -to avoid strike but its path in the Senate is less clear.

Lawmakers from both parties grumbled about stepping into the labor dispute, but they also said they had little choice.

Congress is moving urgently to head off the looming U.S. rail strike.

President Joe Biden is asking Congress to intervene to avert a potentially crippling freight rail strike before Christmas, even if it means handing a defeat to Democratic allies in the labor movement.

When John Fetterman goes to Washington in January as one of the Senate’s new members, he’ll bring along an irreverent style from Pennsylvania.

When John Fetterman goes to Washington in January as one of the Senate's new members, he'll bring along an irreverent style from Pennsylvania that extends from his own personal dress code — super casual — to hanging marijuana flags outside his current office in the state Capitol. Pennsylvania's unique lieutenant governor, who just flipped the state's open Senate seat to Democrats, may be the only senator ever to be declared an “American taste god” — as GQ magazine once did. The 6-foot-8 Fetterman will tower over the currently tallest senator, Republican Tom Cotton of Arkansas by 3 inches.

Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders have lost tens of thousands of followers, while Republicans such as Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene have seen big increases.

Democrats celebrating a successful effort to keep control of the U.S. Senate this year will soon confront a 2024 campaign that could prove more challenging.

Democratic U.S. Rep. Jimmy Gomez has defeated rival Democrat David Kim in a Los Angeles district after a battle on the party’s progressive flank.

There was no violence in the midterm elections last week, and many election deniers lost and quietly conceded.

The post-election narrative was instead focused on each party's electoral fate: Republicans were disappointed that sweeping victories didn't materialize, while relieved Democrats braced for the possibility of a slim House GOP majority. At least for now, the serious threats that loomed over democracy heading into Election Day — domestic extremist violence, voter intimidation and Republican refusal to respect election outcomes — did not materialize in any pervasive way. “It was a good day, I think, for democracy,” President Joe Biden said, even as he acknowledged his party might lose one chamber of Congress.

Incumbent Democrats in Nevada have swept three key swing seats in the western battleground state that Republicans had targeted in their bid to take control of the U.S. House.

President Biden is facing an effort from within his own party looking to unseat him at its helm and prevent him from seeking re-election in the 2024 presidential election.

All 50 states are hosting midterm elections that will determine the balance of power in Washington and state capitals across the nation.

With his party’s control over Congress teetering on the brink, President Joe Biden has traveled the country this fall trying to turn the midterm elections into a choice between two visions for America.

President Biden on Saturday ripped into protesters gathered outside the venue where he was speaking, calling them "idiots" for labeling Democrats "socialists."

Joe Biden wasn't the first choice of progressives for the White House in 2020.

On view at Gallery 2112, the area artist’s abstractions resemble landscapes seen through the lens of poetry.

Last week, thirty members of Congress issued, updated, and retracted a letter calling for more direct diplomacy to end the war in Ukraine. What happened?

Federal prosecutors say the man accused of attacking Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, told police he wanted to hold the speaker hostage and “break her kneecaps.”.

Vermont’s lone member of the U.S. House for the past 16 years has always embraced his role as a liberal Democrat.

Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has begun campaigning for Democrats in key states, including Oregon, where gubernatorial nominee Tina Kotek faces an unusually competitive race.

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders kicked off a multi-state tour in Oregon on Thursday.

Democrat Becca Balint could be on the verge of being elected the first woman and first openly gay person to represent Vermont in Congress.

MSNBC guest and New York Magazine writer Rebecca Traister said Tuesday that John Fetterman's debate performance was "an example of such remarkable transparency."

Here's a look at some progressives who may hope to lead the movement in a presidential race once Bernie Sanders steps aside.

More than 7.5 million people have already cast their ballots, but there are disturbing reports of alleged voter intimidation by election fraud conspiracists.

While Democratic strategists acknowledge past mistakes and make renewed pledges to woo Latino voters, Republicans are also making inroads.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., acknowledged that young and working-class voters might not be enthused to vote for Democrats during the midterms amid soaring inflation and gas prices.

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders said that while abortion remains an important issue, Democrats messaging ahead of the midterms should be on everyday economic issues facing Americans.

Politicians don't need to choose between focusing on reproductive rights or pocketbook politics. They're the same thing.

California Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna is paying political consultants in the early presidential nominating states, which some say is a sign of a possible White House run.

Biden pledged "consequences" and vowed to "take action" — but some lawmakers are demanding a concrete response.

Democratic strategist James Carville and Sen. Bernie Sanders warned on Monday that Democrats won't win with an abortion-only message in the midterm elections.

In recent decades, 9 of 10 Americans have seen their share of the nation's wealth shrink, a CBO analysis found.

Keith Ellison gave up a safe seat in Congress to run for Minnesota attorney general, saying it was his best chance to push back against the policies of Donald Trump.

Progressive Democrats are facing a test of their power in November's midterm elections.

The committee says this hearing will reveal some of the information lawmakers learned this summer.

A recent CBS News Battleground Tracker poll shows Republicans are still very likely to recapture the house, but Democrats do have some momentum—including in the Senate races.

Sen. Joe Manchin on Tuesday railed against what he called “revenge politics″ being used against him, as liberals in the House and Senate team up with Republicans to oppose his plan to speed permits for natural gas pipelines and other energy projects.

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To make the transition to an electric future, the US needs to rely more on cleaner, more efficient sources of energy.

With the fall campaign rapidly approaching, the time-honored tradition of debates as a forum for voters to evaluate candidates may be the latest casualty of the nation’s polarized political climate.

Sen. Joe Manchin made a deal with Democratic leaders as part of his vote pushing the party's highest legislative priority across the finish line last month.

"I will not vote for any bill that makes it easier for Big Oil to destroy the planet," Sanders said.

In recent days, President Joe Biden has sharpened his attacks against Donald Trump and the so-called MAGA Republicans for posing a threat to democracy.

Utah's Evan McMullin is emerging as the nation’s most competitive independent candidate running for U.S. Senate in the 2022 midterm elections.

It's Donald Trump's first rally of the general election season, a Saturday night event in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, with Republican candidates in the pivotal state.

To Democrats championing the White House’s student loan forgiveness plan, it was the long-awaited delivery of one of President Joe Biden’s campaign promises.

In a Tweet, Sanders said that the GOP loves socialism for the rich — and "rugged individualism for the rest."

Regulators want CEO Howard Schultz to read a statement to workers about their rights to unionize.

More than 40 million Americans could see their student loan debt reduced — and in many cases eliminated — under President Joe Biden’s long-awaited forgiveness plan.

President Joe Biden has promised to make a decision on student loan forgiveness by the end of August, when monthly loan payments are set to resume.

Democrats have pulled off a quiet first in legislation passed this month: the creation of a tax targeting stock buybacks.

Hanging over his first public in-person campaign event was a single question: How would the lingering effects of the stroke hinder his ability to wage a winning campaign?

Ron Johnson, the most vulnerable Republican senator up for reelection this year, will take on Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes in a general election matchup that will help determine which party controls the Senate.

The leader of the Vermont state Senate Becca Balint could become the first woman and the first openly gay person to represent the state in Congress.

Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan Omar won a closer-than-expected Democratic primary race against a centrist challenger who questioned Omar's support for the “defund the police” movement.

Businessman Tim Michels has won Wisconsin's Republican nomination to take on Democratic Gov. Tony Evers.

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer effectively became the leader of the U.S. Senate on the morning of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection.

Support has coalesced around Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes to be the Democratic choice to take on Republican Sen. Ron Johnson in the state's closely watched U.S. Senate race.

Vermont Lt. Gov. Molly Gray and Senate President Pro Tempore Becca Balint are the leading candidates in a Democratic U.S. House primary that could make either of them the first female member of the state's congressional delegation.

Republicans see inflation, taxes and immigration as Democratic weak spots worth attacking in the upcoming battle over an economic package the Democrats want to push through the Senate.

Michigan Rep. Peter Meijer, who witnessed the Capitol riot days after taking office in 2021 and then cast one of the 10 Republican votes to impeach Donald Trump over the attack, has lost his reelection bid.

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt has defeated scandal-scarred former Gov. Eric Greitens and 19 others in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate.

Wisconsin Treasurer Sarah Godlewski has dropped out of the state's Democratic U.S. Senate primary.

The Senate has advanced a $280 billion bill designed to boost the U.S. semiconductor industry and accelerate high-tech research.

President Joe Biden is asking Congress to move quickly to send to him a bipartisan bill designed to boost the computer chips industry and high-tech research in the United States.

A bill to boost semiconductor production in the United States has managed to do nearly the unthinkable — unite Sen. Bernie Sanders and the tea party.

It was launched as the new president’s ambitious plan for rebuilding America.

The Georgia investigation into potential criminal interference in the 2020 election is heating up.

If you're flying this holiday weekend, be prepared for crowded airports, full planes, and higher-than-normal chances that your flight will be delayed or even canceled.

President Joe Biden’s top political advisers are bracing for big election losses in November.

At least a half-dozen GOP presidential prospects are planning Iowa visits this summer now that the state's June primary has come and gone.

A recount is underway in a Texas primary race between Democratic U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar and progressive challenger Jessica Cisneros.