Category: Congress

The Senate is grinding toward an end to the shutdown — and there are new signs for optimism this week. A swing group of Democrats is signaling they could...

Republicans are starting to contend with the fact that the president will soon be gone, and they'll be fending for themselves.

Republicans say they are close to finalizing a package of full-year funding measures for select federal agencies — a critical piece of bipartisan negotiations over the terms for ending...

Bipartisan negotiations continue, but pressure mounted Wednesday to push the 36-day shutdown even longer.

Several Republican senators are voicing uncertainty ahead of a vote to block the Trump administration from taking military action against Venezuela, setting up a potential rebuke of the president...

President Donald Trump took his pitch to nix the filibuster directly to Senate Republicans on Wednesday. They are once again saying, thanks, but no thanks. Trump spent several minutes...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Wednesday he had spoken with New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, following the 34-year-old's electoral win in the Senate leader’s hometown. Schumer repeatedly...

Speaker Mike Johnson connected House Republicans’ fate in next year's midterms to President Donald Trump on Wednesday, just hours after GOP candidates took an election night drubbing from Democrats...

It’s officially the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, and about a dozen Democrats are itching to find a way out. But after Democrats’ sweeping victories Tuesday night, their...

Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) chided Rep. Nancy Mace’s (R-S.C.) on Tuesday for her confrontation with airport security, after the House member claimed she was treated unfairly by agents at...