Focus was then squarely on Murkowski, whose vote could have tanked the entire bill. But former Senate Majority Leader Mitch ...

Both candidates criticized the bill's cuts to Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Collins said her decision to vote against the bill came down to the Medicaid cuts, and she had ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R., S.D.) could have chosen to shrink the bill’s debt-ceiling increase to sway Rand Paul ...

Attention then shifted to Maine’s Susan Collins and Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski, the closest things the Senate still has to ...

Senator Collins is well accustomed to the high-wire act of being a Republican moderate in a blue state. Her vote on the GOP ...

Eighteen Senate Republicans backed an amendment overnight Tuesday that would have let President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax cuts ...

Sen. Murkowski has been vested with the charge to serve all Americans, not to prioritize perks for home-state constituents ...

Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska convinced Senate leaders to change their massive tax and spending cuts package to ...

The president's spending bill came down to the wire with three Republican senators ultimately choosing not to support his ...

The Senate passed President Donald Trump’s “one big, beautiful bill” on Tuesday morning, but only after senators spent hours ...

The Senate voted early Tuesday morning to defeat an amendment sponsored by Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) to create a new top ...