The Latest Breaking News from Mark Warner

WASHINGTON — Senators are considering restoring a more generous tax break for companies’ research and development spending as part of a slimmed-down economic competitiveness bill focused on boosting domestic semiconductor manufacturing.

Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer pledged to move ahead with a procedural vote Tuesday afternoon on the semiconductor bill.

WASHINGTON — The House attached a pandemic-related amendment to a Senate-passed Supreme Court security emergency spending bill Friday, ensuring the legislation will not go to President Joe Biden’s desk this week even as the high court handed down its expected opinion overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.

The House sent an amended Supreme Court security spending bill back to the Senate, as tensions rise in wake of Roe v. Wade ruling.

Two senators from opposing sides of the aisle teamed up on legislation to fund added security for Supreme Court justices and their families.

The U.S. Treasury Department is sending more than half a billion dollars to expand broadband access in four U.S. states

The company, a major defense contractor, said it will use its campus in Arlington, Va., as the new headquarters, placing its executives closer to key federal government officials.

The Senate may soon test the bipartisan limits on pandemic spending as Democratic leaders prepare for action on a small-business aid package.

U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner on Monday said he saw no "immediate threat" within Russia to Russian President Vladimir Putin's government.