Two Democrats and an independent voted for a GOP measure to end the shutdown, but the 54-44 vote left Republicans short of ...

Hopes for a quick end to the government shutdown faded Friday as Democrats refused to budge in a Senate vote and President ...

Senators were expected to depart for the weekend, and there have been few signs of any real progress towards ending the ...

The bipartisan vote defies the gamesmanship that has gripped Washington since a government shutdown took hold more than one ...

The Senate could pass its annual defense policy bill as soon as Thursday after the legislation was stalled for more than a month. Senate Armed Services Committee Chair Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) ...

Congressional Democrats have pushed for extensions of health insurance tax credits as part of any deal to reopen the ...

The Senate is set to vote Wednesday on dueling stopgap funding bills that could reopen the government as the shutdown stretches past the one-week mark. The tally has remained virtually unchanged, ...

At least 75 members of the Republican-led U.S. Senate voted for a sweeping $740 billion annual defense bill as voting continued on Friday, a number larger than the two-thirds majority in the ...

WASHINGTON – Hours after a stopgap government funding measure passed the House of Representatives, the Senate struck it down, raising the prospects of a shutdown in just over a week. Senators voted ...

It will be the seventh time that the Senate is voting on the measures, as lawmakers remain far apart on negotiations. The ...

Pete Buttigieg, a former mayor who challenged Joe Biden for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, won U.S. Senate Commerce Committee approval on Wednesday, 21-3, to head the U.S. Transportation ...