The U.S. Senate on Friday night averted a looming midnight shutdown of the federal government by passing a funding bill after ...

The Senate has swiftly approved legislation that would allow the District of Columbia to keep its budget intact.

Advocates are seizing the moment to call for change, urging Congress not to “get back in the city management business” before ...

The U.S. Senate on Friday passed a stopgap spending bill, averting a partial government shutdown, after Democrats backed down ...

The Senate is preparing to give final approval to a bill that could result in harsher prison sentences for fentanyl ...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries tussled with reporters Friday, pushing back against the notion that the Democratic ...

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries sidestepped SEVERAL questions about the apparent resignation of Senate Democratic ...

The White House’s bid to install a vaccine-skeptic ally of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. atop the CDC fell apart this ...

Former Wyoming Sen. Alan K. Simpson, one of the most colorful lawmakers in recent congressional history, died Friday at age ...

A key deadline to pass bills has come and gone for Washington lawmakers. Here's what they say are their successes — and ...

Enough Senate Democrats put their disdain for President Trump aside and voted Friday to end a filibuster of a Republican ...

The top Senate Democrat said his members were not ready to provide the votes to allow the Republican-written stopgap spending ...