The Senate voted on Thursday to block California’s first-in-the nation rule banning the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035, acting to kill the nation’s most aggressive effort to transition toward electric vehicles as President Donald Trump ’s administration has doubled down on fossil fuels.

The Senate voted on Thursday to ax California’s phaseout of gas-powered cars, making a controversial move to sidestep the parliamentarian in the process. The vote was 51-44, and the measure

Throughout the 2024 campaign, GOP senators shouted from the rooftops that they would preserve the tactic if they won back the chamber. Whoops.

Senate Republicans have voted to establish a new precedent that will allow them to roll back clean air standards in California, including a rule phasing out the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035

The bill is an attempt to tackle zoning, transit-oriented development, parking policy and homelessness. A vote is now planned for Tuesday.

In a 51-46 vote that fell along party lines, Republicans affirmed their ability to repeal the waivers, clearing the way for the first of three to be withdrawn on Thursday morning.

Senate Republicans are going on offense against Democrats’ claims that reversing California’s de facto national electric vehicle (EV) mandate would undermine the filibuster, arguing that the ...

Democrats are warning of “profound institutional consequences,” claiming this would somehow undermine the filibuster. That claim is absurd and dishonest. In a letter to Republicans ...

My God, will anyone ever stand steadfastly by the filibuster? (To be clear, I will not; that run-down parliamentary contraption must go.) Karen Tumulty writes that — surprise, surprise — the ...

Democratic Arizona Sen. Ruben Gallego reassured a crowd of left-wing voters at a Pennsylvania Democratic-party sponsored

The Senate is poised to take up the Republican megabill after it narrowly passed in the House. But ongoing disputes and a slim majority mean more obstacles ahead.