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

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

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate finds itself on Friday in a familiar position, working to avoid a partial government shutdown ...

Ten of Patrick's 40 priorities have already passed out of the Senate, including three of the items on the new list released ...

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

Democrats and Republicans in the Senate are laying the groundwork for a government shutdown standoff as the clock ticks down.

Should the New York strip steak be renamed the "Texas Strip" and take on the "official State Steak of Texas" honor? Or what ...