With the start of the 119th Congress on Friday, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott has become the longest-serving Black U.S.

Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) became the longest-serving black senator on Friday when he was sworn into the 119th Congress. The ...

The title of longest-serving Black senator was previously held by Sen. Edward Brooke (R-Mass.) who served two full terms from ...

The 119th Congress is around the corner and confirmation battles featuring President-elect Trump’s slate of nominees are set to take center stage. Since Trump’s rapid rollout of choices, two ...

Scott Leatham dead at 39 years old ... of the Arizona Attorney General's Office. U.S. Rep. Greg Stanton, who represents Arizona’s 4th Congressional District which covers Mesa, touched on Austin’s many ...

Lawmakers in Washington are seeking to ban new sales of drones from two dominant Chinese manufacturers, arguing they could be ...

Get the poll delivered straight to your inbox with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here. PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Chris Austin’s 20 points off of the bench helped lead Portland to a 74-64 victory over ...

Rep. David Scott (D-Ga.) went after a photographer outside the Capitol on Wednesday and shouted that he was an “a–hole” for capturing him on camera — amid mounting concerns about the ...

Trump posted criticism on social media Thursday that included an implicit political threat to the Austin congressman as he invoked the example of U.S. Rep. Bob Good, R-Va., who lost in the primary ...

Almost nobody in Washington DC will know who Lord Mandelson is, a US congressman has suggested. Glenn Grothman, the Republican chairman of National Security, a sub-committee of the US House of ...

Former Congressman Matt Gaetz is threatening to "expose" the supposed "me too" settlements of his former colleagues after the House Ethics Committee voted to release a report on its investigation ...

Republican Rep. Austin Scott of Tifton and Democratic Rep. Sanford Bishop of Albany are also members of the committee. Georgia Democratic U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock serves on his chamber’s Agriculture, ...