Butler, D-Calif., was active in causes largely associated with Democrats long before reaching the Senate. She was a labor ...

Butler, appointed to the U.S. Senate by California Gov. Gavin Newsom after the death of Dianne Feinstein, leaves office after ...

VP Kamala Harris honored Shirley Chisholm by signing the Congressional Gold Medal Act. U.S. Representative Barbara Lee (CA-12 ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) appointed Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) to the Senate to complete the rest of appointee Sen.

Butler held her final Los Angeles open house last month, regaling the friendly crowd with anecdotes of being the only Black ...

Adam Schiff will get a jump on his term as U.S. senator a few weeks with California Gov. Gavin Newsome appointing him to ...

Butler had been appointed to the position by Governor Gavin Newsom in October of last year following the death of Diane ...

California’s incoming senator is joining the Senate Judiciary Committee to sustain the panel’s Democratic majority amid ...

The vice president’s signature instructs Congress to posthumously award Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to Congress ...

Newsom also praised Butler’s commitment to public service and expressed confidence in Schiff’s ability to carry forward the ...

Laphonza Butler’s office is quiet. It’s a wonder that there is much to pack at all. Butler only moved into this space on the ground floor of the Hart Senate building — the same office her ...