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The United States House of Representatives votes 420–3 to pass legislation to suspend normal trade relations with Russia and Belarus following the invasion of Ukraine. Following this, the Senate also votes 100–0 to pass the legislation, sending it to U.S. President Joe Biden for approval.
2022-04-7

The U.S. House of Representatives votes 252–175 to approve a commission that will investigate the January 6 riot at the United States Capitol. The bill will head to the U.S. Senate.
2021-05-19

Dignitaries gather at the memorial service for U.S. Senator John McCain at the Washington National Cathedral, at which former U.S. Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama are among those who eulogize McCain.
2018-09-1

U.S. Senator and 2008 presidential nominee John McCain (R–AZ) dies at the age of 81.
2018-08-25

U.S. Senator John McCain (R–AZ) has announced that he will not continue his cancer treatment.
2018-08-24

U.S. Senator John McCain is diagnosed with a malignant brain cancer, glioblastoma multiforme. This is his second battle with cancer, after having been successfully treated for malignant melanoma.
2017-07-19

Democratic state Representative John Bel Edwards, the surprise winner of the October 24 open primary, is elected governor of Louisiana over Republican U.S. Senator David Vitter. Edwards' margin is 140,931 votes (56.11 percent), all 3,945 precincts reporting. Edwards will replace former Republican presidential candidate Bobby Jindal, who was not eligible to seek another term.
2015-11-21

In the United States, Senator Rand Paul ends a 13-hour filibuster to block voting on the nomination of John O. Brennan as the Director of the CIA, questioning President Barack Obama and his administration's use of drones, and the stated legal justification for hypothetical lethal use within the United States targeting against noncombatants. Attorney General Eric Holder states that combat drones would not be used to target and kill, without due process, Americans not engaged in combat on American soil.
2013-03-7

The United States Senate reaches a temporary deal to avoid a government shutdown.
2011-09-26

Former United States presidential candidate and US Senator, John McCain, calls for sanctions against Iran designed to prevent the country from producing a nuclear weapon.
2010-04-19