WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – Congress is just hours away from a potential government shutdown. The Senate has until midnight to ...

The Senate was preparing Friday to give final approval to a bill that could result in harsher prison sentences for fentanyl ...

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer gave members of his caucus days to vent their frustration about the options before ...

The low-drama South Dakotan has arrived at the apex of power in the Senate just as Donald Trump is exerting his own executive authority. Will Thune draw a line?

Congress is operating under a temporary funding measure until March 14, while Senate negotiations continue over a Republican proposal to extend it through September.

A day before a shutdown deadline, Senate Democrats are mounting a last-ditch protest over a Republican-led government funding ...

The Senate plans to take up a House-passed bill to fund the government through September beginning on Friday, which needs the ...

The government runs out of funding Friday at midnight, leaving Democrats to decide whether to help Republicans pass a bill to avoid a shutdown or block the bill and be blamed for triggering one.

House Republicans this week passed a government funding bill 217-213 without assistance from Democrats, losing only one vote from Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky.

NY, said he plans to vote for a Republican bill to fund the government through September, paving the way for other Democrats ...