Tag: senate vote

The U.S. Senate narrowly avoided a federal government shutdown by approving a bill just hours before the midnight deadline. The vote proceeded after enough Democrats decided against blocking the Republican bill with a filibuster....

With a vote of 22-8, the Vermont Senate confirmed Zoie Saunders as the state's education secretary, putting an end to nearly a year of uncertainty. Saunders, who had been serving in an interim capacity...

In a recent turn of events, U.S. Senators Bernie Sanders and Peter Welch of Vermont have expressed their opposition to the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the head of the U.S. Department...