Senate prepares test vote tonight on GOP spending plan to end government shutdown. Bill would reopen government through Jan. 30, requiring 60 votes to break filibuster.

The Senate is voting on Sunday to amend a House-passed measure to reopen the government and end the shutdown that has now lasted over 40 days ...

Congress once again left for August without clearing a final version of a single appropriations bill, meaning the September agenda will be dominated by partisan wrangling over how to avoid a partial ...

WASHINGTON — Senate Republican leaders have made consequential moves this year to weaken or end-run minority power when it stands in the way of their ambitions during the second Donald Trump ...

The text was released on Sunday after weeks of negotiations between both parties in the House and Senate — and provides an off-ramp to end the shutdown.

WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Friday to block dueling Republican and Democratic proposals to keep the federal government funded on a short-term basis, raising the chances of a shutdown at the end of ...

Congress flouted several legal principles with an unusual provision creating a streamlined path for senator lawsuits, experts ...

Overhead view of members of the House Appropriations Committee sitting at several long tables with papers and water bottles as they convene to discuss appropriations bills. On Sept. 10, the House ...

Congress is in the midst of a shutdown stalemate, and lawmakers have left Washington. Only the Senate plans to return before government funding expires at the end of the month. The House passed a ...

There are no term limits for the United States Congress, and an analysis by the Get the Facts Data Team found that members of the 119th Congress have been in office for nearly two terms in the Senate ...

President Donald Trump late Wednesday signed a funding package to reopen the federal government, officially bringing a close ...