Republican U.S. Sen ... READ MORE | "GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham announces committee assignments for 119th Congress." The longest-serving Black senator was Sen. Edward Brooke, a Republican from ...

Edward Brooke went to Howard and is descended ... mores that when Saltonstall decided last week to retire from the U.S. Senate in a year’s time, the Negro state attorney general made a strong ...

The Senate voted 72-28 to confirm her nomination. She easily sailed through the Senate Agriculture Committee earlier this ...

In a rare show of bipartisan support for a Trump cabinet nominee, Ms. Rollins sailed through the confirmation process and ...

Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) has become the longest-serving Black senator in U.S. history, as the 119th Congress ... Before Scott, Republican Sen. Edward Brooke (Mass), who held office from 1967-79 ...

WASHINGTON — Conservative lawyer Brooke Rollins was confirmed Thursday as U.S. secretary of agriculture, placing a close ally ...