The building strain on lawmakers to end the impasse was exemplified by the nation's largest federal employee union calling on ...

The Senate again voted down the House-passed funding bill to reopen the federal government Wednesday. The 12th vote on the legislation failed 54-46. It followed a 22-hour speech from Sen. Jeff Merkley ...

As the government shutdown drags on, lawmakers clash over whether to pay essential workers still on the job while thousands ...

Rand Paul tells TIME he is working with Democrats to force a vote on a resolution to block Trump's Venezuela strikes as early ...

Both Republican and Democratic senators made procedural moves against each other, with Berger cutting off the debate.

The U.S. Senate once again failed to reach consensus on making daylight saving time permanent. Despite previous support, ...

North Carolina Republicans redrew district lines in eastern North Carolina with the intention of shifting the balance of the ...

Stein in a letter last week urged House and Senate lawmakers to pass a budget — which was supposed to be enacted at the end of June — but said that in the absence of a comprehensive plan, funding for ...

The Senate is scheduled to vote this afternoon, and with a GOP majority in the both house of representatives and the senate, ...