Topic: Mike Rounds

White House budget director Russell Vought on Wednesday urged U.S. senators to approve the Trump administration's proposed cuts of $8.3 billion in foreign assistance and $1.1 billion for public broadcasting.

Republican Sen. Mike Rounds has introduced legislation to eliminate the Department of Education, a policy that President-elect Donald Trump campaigned on ahead of the general election.

The U.S. Senate on Tuesday failed in another attempt to reach a solution to in vitro fertilization protection after Senate Republicans blocked a second try after other failed bids earlier this year.

A small bipartisan group of lawmakers led by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Wednesday unveiled "roadmap" for regulating the growing artificial intelligence industry which calls for a $32 billion investment.

Less than a year after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration agreed cultivated chicken is safe to eat, the industry faces legislation to keep it out of the National School Lunch Program.

Wall Street bankers at Wednesday's Senate Banking Oversight Committee hearing on the stability of the U.S. banking system were united in their opposition to stricter capitalization regulations.

The Capitol's attending physician said Tuesday that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell did not experience a seizure or stroke in two incidents during which he froze up while speaking in public.

Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., says Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell is still equipped to fulfill his duties after he again appeared to freeze while speaking to the press last week.

The House Oversight Committee will hold a hearing next week on "unidentified anomalous phenomena," or UAPs, otherwise known as UFOs, Rep. Tim Burchett confirmed Monday.

Nearly a dozen Republican U.S. senators have joined Democrats in the chamber to support a fledgling bipartisan compromise to spend hundreds of billions to repair and upgrade various infrastructure across the U.S.