June 29 (UPI) --The Senate has started formal debate on the Trump administration's budget reconciliation bill after lawmakers spent 16 hours reading the entire measure aloud on the Senate floor. This ...

US President Donald Trump on Sunday described the Senate’s clearance of a key procedural hurdle for his proposed economic package as a "great victory," setting the stage for formal debate on ...

Ever since I first stepped onto the debate stage, I have been passionate about speech and debate. For the last three of my high school years, I have competed and placed nationally at major tournaments ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The election for Chicago mayor is just three weeks away. Rahm Emanuel and three candidates trying to unseat him squared off in their first televised debate on Wednesday night. It wasn ...

This year’s gubernatorial candidates did a good deal to make Massachusetts residents resent political debates. Democrat Shannon O’Brien and Republican Mitt Romney irritated us with meaningless attacks ...

Shadow Immigration Minister Paul Scarr has called for a "measured and considered" debate over migration levels after incendiary comments by members of the party's right flank.

U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley, D-OR, uses a diagram to explain tax cuts at a press conference following the weekly Senate policy luncheon in the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on Tuesday. Photo by ...