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As Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) continued a marathon floor speech which had passed 18 hours by Tuesday afternoon — protesting President Donald Trump's agenda — news was released that one of his staffers was taken into custody by Capitol Police, according to Politico.

Authorities said they arrested the staffer, Kevin Batts, for allegedly carrying a gun without a license.

Batts reportedly told officers outside the Senate galleries Monday that he was armed. The department said Batts had been led by Booker around security screening at a congressional office building earlier that day....

Donald Trump on Thursday lashed out at a well-liked Republican senator for seemingly no reason, according to his former aide.

Trump has had harsh words for Louisiana GOP senator Bill Cassidy in the past, but it's not clear why the former president chose today to once again lash out at who he calls "Wacky Bill Cassidy."

Identifying Cassidy as "the incompetent Senator from the great State of Louisiana," Trump claimed the senator "wants to pour vast amounts of money into South American countries in the hope that their economies will become strong and vibrant, and people will stop coming to the U.S."...

Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) could face new corruption charges as prosecutors meet with lawyers to weigh a decision, reported the Wall Street Journal on Friday.

According to the report, prosecutors are looking into whether he or his wife Nadine Arslanian sold political favors in exchange for gifts. They are also investigating how a New Jersey businessman became the sole certifier of Halal meat exported from the United States to Egypt one month after a meeting with Menendez.

A report earlier this summer found that another person caught up in the probe, real estate magnate Fred Daibes, has ties to the mob. Other strange transactions have been reported around the case, including that Menendez's wife sold $400,000 in gold bars shortly before his office was facing a federal corruption probe....

Harvard professor and consumer advocate Elizabeth Warren announced Wednesday that she would challenge Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown (R) as a Democrat in 2012.

A freshman Arizona state Senator may be in need of some gun safety lessons.

WASHINGTON — The US Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday unanimously approved General David Petraeus's nomination to head the CIA, the panel's chair and vice chair said.