Trump's Republican Party has a 53-47 majority in the current Senate, but several Republicans opposed Shelton's nomination and two were absent due to exposure to Covid-19
The hearing was expected to be highly political, as indicated in Chairman Lindsey Graham's opening remarks
It is unclear if the U.S. Senate will take up the measure before the current Congress expires this year
The party has now nailed down at least 218 seats, according to The Associated Press, and could win a few others when more votes are counted
The latest burst of activity came Tuesday when the GOP-led Senate Judiciary Committee grilled former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe
At issue is the roughly one-third of the federal budget that is written annually by Congress under a time-tested bipartisan process
A final election push against the onslaught of challengers in states once off limits to Democrats but now hotbeds of a potential backlash to President Donald Trump and his allies on Capitol Hill.
At a US Senate hearing, the heads of technology giants Twitter, Facebook and Google vowed to defend their platforms from being used to sow chaos ahead of the election next week
"Sham!" and "who the hell are you" scoldings dominated a Senate hearing where the CEOs of Twitter, Facebook, and Google took heat in a talking match with US lawmakers over the idea of free speech
Twitter's Dorsey will warn the committee that eroding the foundation of Section 230 could significantly hurt how people communicate online
Senator Ted Cruz went after Twitter's Jack Dorsey after the CEO said Twitter has no influence over elections
Facebook told the committee that Zuckerberg was alone. He was able to get connected in a couple of minutes.
CEOs of Twitter, Facebook and Google are set to face a grilling by Republican senators who accuse the tech giants of anti-conservative bias
The Senate voted 52-48 to confirm the 48-year-old judge - with GOP Senator from Maine, Susan Collins, joining Democrats to vote against the nomination
Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans powered past a Democratic boycott Thursday to advance Amy Coney Barrett's Supreme Court nomination to the full Senate
Barrett's nomination is expected to be voted out of the Judiciary Committee on Thursday, which will pave the way for McConnell to start lining up the procedural hurdles the next day, reports The Hill
The "Samosa caucus" comprises of five Indian-American lawmakers, including four members of the House of Representatives and Senator and Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris
The Senate Judiciary Committee convened set an October 22 vote on Amy Coney Barrett's Supreme Court nomination as Republicans race to confirm President Donald Trump's pick before the Nov 3 election.
A four-day Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing for the conservative appellate court judge is set to begin on Monday
The critique and the panel's report are still drafts and the contents of both could change