Politics: U.S. Senate

Democrat Jim Martin might not be getting President-elect Barack Obama to come down to Georgia on his behalf, but he got the next-best surrogate as he campaigns against Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) in an upcoming Senate runoff.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Friday named their three members of a five-person oversight panel that will monitor Treasury's Wall Street rescue plan and regularly report back to Congress.

Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett, a Chicago power broker and Daley ally whom some close to the president-elect have been quietly pushing to replace him in the Senate, tells PBS's Judy Woodruff that she's "not interested" in the Senate but would serve elsewhere.

Although Barack Obama’s historic election will place an African-American in the White House, it will reduce the number of African-Americans in the Senate to zero.

When the Division of Elections closes for business today, Ted Stevens and Mark Begich will be a lot closer to knowing just who won the Alaska Senate race.

The smashmouth Minnesota Senate race between Republican Sen. Norm Coleman and Democrat Al Franken is showing no signs of letting up.

Nearly a week since Election Day, the fate of six House and Senate races remained unclear Monday as heated recounts and a runoff were underway in contested races across the country.

... looks to be the Kansas First District seat of Rep. Jerry Moran (R-Kansas), who announced that he plans to run for the Senate in 2010.  He would be running for the seat of GOP Sen. Sam Brownback, who has already said he will not be running for re-election in two years.

President-elect Barack Obama says he’ll not dictate his Senate replacement, making him one of very few Illinois politicians sitting out the fight over the seat.

In both the Senate and the House, the longest-serving Democratic member has faced increased pressure to step aside from a powerful committee post since Barack Obama's election last week.

Sen. Robert C. Byrd’s exit from the helm of the Appropriations Committee has set off a chain reaction in the Senate committee hierarchy that will grant several long-serving senators new chairmanships.

Senate legend Robert Byrd, approaching 91 this month and hailing a “new day in Washington,” said he would voluntarily give up the chairmanship of the Senate Appropriations Committee with the new Congress.

North Carolina Democrat Kay Hagan has pulled off one of the early upsets of election night, knocking off Republican Sen. Elizabeth Dole in a race that was one of the nastiest Senate contests in the country.

CUMMING, Ga. — Barack Obama is shaking up the South by greatly expanding the black vote and forcing Republicans to confront splits in the same white conservative base that has long fortified the GOP in Congress.

Sen. John Ensign, the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, urged Alaska Republican Sen. Ted Stevens to “do the right thing” and resign his long-held seat following his conviction earlier this week on seven counts of corruption.

An election-eve stunt or a gallant move to protect the integrity of the Senate? Whichever it is, Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell's call for Alaska Senator Ted Stevens' resignation is dramatic.

Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.), head of National Republican Senatorial Committee, said Monday that following the election the GOP would welcome Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) “with open arms.”