The agency's plan to repeal or weaken more than two dozen environmental regulations could deliver a direct blow to causes ...

The son of an immigrant, he represented a majority Hispanic district in Arizona for 12 terms but had lately been absent from ...

"This false choice that some are buying instead of fighting is unacceptable,” Rep. Nancy Pelosi said as Schumer cast his vote ...

U.S. stocks rallied to their best day since November's election, but that wasn't enough to keep Wall Street from a fourth ...

Commitment to democracy under the structure of a republic creates rights and duties for elected representatives. Some are not ...

The Senate voted to end debate on the six-month stopgap funding bill Friday after negotiations all morning and into the ...

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

Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada were among the first Democrats to publicly back the Republican funding bill, arguing that a ...

The Senate is taking a procedural vote Friday afternoon on a Republican-led stopgap measure to keep the government funded ...

The Senate finds itself in a familiar position, working to avoid a partial government shutdown with just hours to spare.

Some Senate Democrats, including Sen. Patty Murray of Washington state, have alternatively pushed for a four-week stopgap ...