The Hill - Senate

A bipartisan pair of senators launched an investigation this week into the gaming platform Roblox, citing concerns around explicit content and its alleged "connection to real world child abuse." Sens. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) sent a letter on Wednesday informing Roblox CEO David Baszucki that the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and...

Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) blasted President Trump on Thursday for ordering the U.S. Navy to revert to older catapult systems on its aircraft carriers, arguing the change would be costly while questioning Trump’s qualifications to make such a call. “He’s a marginally failed real estate developer with multiple bankruptcies,” Kelly said in an interview with...

President Trump is renewing pressure on Senate Republicans to pass a House-approved bill to make daylight saving time permanent, but the effort is running into stiff opposition from GOP senators whose states would be plunged into early-morning darkness during the winter. Trump, in a Wednesday post on Truth Social, said “people are sick and tired...

A group of Senate Democrats called on the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to conduct an audit into the White House ballroom project following new reporting on the Trump administration’s multi-million-dollar construction projects.  The Washington Post reported Wednesday on confidential contracts that showed the administration is expected to spend at least $900 million on W...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is pressing Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kenendy Jr. on whether the administration’s response to the cyclosporiasis outbreak was influenced by the donations of a major produce supplier to groups linked to President Trump.  In a letter sent to Kennedy on Thursday, Warren questioned whether the “botched response”...