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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Just after midnight, Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski was pacing in a Senate hallway, alone and looking concerned. It had suddenly ...

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

The fate of President Donald Trump’s domestic agenda was in Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s hands — and she used that leverage ...

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

Jul. 6—As the top Senate appropriator, Sen. Susan Collins was expected to be a key player in negotiations this summer over the sweeping tax and spending bill proposed by President Donald Trump.