A finding by a U.S. Senate official has dealt a major blow to a senator’s proposal to sell off millions of acres of public ...

The Byrd rule, named after former West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd, has been in place since the 1980s in order to limit irrelevant provisions within budget bills known as reconciliation bills.

Who is Senate parliamentarian Elizabeth Macdonough that ruled against Medicaid in Trump's 'big beautiful bill' Here's what to ...

And four years after first rising to give her “Declaration of Conscience” in 1950, Smith voted in favor of McCarthy’s censure — in the words of the late Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va ...

Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky has pledged not to support the bill because it includes a $5 trillion debt limit increase.

The candy desk was a Senate tradition that began in the 1960s and has since been passed down to others, with Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) being the latest.

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that the tax piece of President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” a core ...

MacDonough is responsible for making calls on whether the provisions in the bill are in keeping with the Byrd Rule, named after the late Sen. Robert Byrd, who helped institute the rules governing ...

Updated: July 19, 2010 Robert C. Byrd, a Democrat from West Virginia, was a Senator for 51 years and a member of the House for 6, making him the longest-serving member of the Senate and Congress ...

Under the so-called Byrd rule, named for the late Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia and applied by the Senate’s parliamentarian, Congress cannot use the budget reconciliation mechanism to ...