Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK), the House Appropriations Committee chairman, conceded Wednesday that Congress will likely need to craft ...

The Senate fell short in its 12th vote on advancing the Republican bill to end the government shutdown. Follow live updates ...

The government has been shut down for more than 21 days as of Wednesday, making it the second-longest federal closure in U.S.

Lawmakers did agree to pass two so-called mini budget bills, one in July and one in September, that included minor spending ...

Republican leaders are making plans for a new, longer continuing resolution (CR) to fund the government at current levels as ...

On their way out of Raleigh, after two days of fierce debate on a new North Carolina congressional map, lawmakers in the ...

Senate Democrats voted for a 12th time on Wednesday to block a House-passed bill to reopen the government and keep it funded ...

The Republican-led Pennsylvania Senate sent a $47.9 billion spending plan to the state House on Tuesday, but the proposal was dead on arrival and deemed "unserious" in the Democratic-controlled ...

One Democrat called a bill on raises passed by the House “literally just posturing,” as the House and Senate remain locked in stalemate.

At a lunch with GOP senators at the White House, President Trump stood firm in his demands that Democrats vote to end the ...

On day 21 of the federal government shutdown, the political tensions and policy differences that contributed to it appeared ...

The party line vote came on the 113th day after the June 30 deadline to pass a spending plan. It was also done nearly two ...