WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democratic Party was fracturing Friday as a torrent of frustration and anger was unleashed at Senate ...

Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) became the third Senate Democrat to publicly support advancing the House-passed stopgap ...

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

WASHINGTON: The US Senate appeared closer Friday (Mar 14) to avoiding an economically damaging government funding shutdown after the Democrats' top leader shied away from a major confrontation with ...

Dozens of House Democrats sent a letter to Schumer on Friday to express their “strong opposition” to his plan to back the ...

Sen. James Lankford (R-OK), one of 31 bipartisan co-sponsors, called the bill's passage a "major accomplishment" for both Republicans and Democrats.

The Senate has until midnight Friday to pass a bill to keep the government open. Meantime, President Donald Trump will deliver what the White House calls a law-and-order speech on Friday at the ...

Minority Leader Chuck Schumer took to the Senate floor Friday morning to defend his decision to support a Republican short-term funding bill that will effectively help avoid a government shutdown at ...

Alan Simpson, an old school moderate Republican senator who helped craft major U.S. immigration reform in 1986 and made friends across the aisle, died on Friday in Cody, Wyoming, his family said in a ...

Under Trump’s directive the Department of Education laid off half its staff. The lawsuit argues Trump has no authority to ...

Former U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson, a political legend whose quick wit bridged partisan gaps, has died. He was 93. Video above: Alan Simpson speaks about George H. W. Bush in 2018: 'You would've wanted him ...

The Senate on Friday confirmed Stephen Feinberg, a billionaire investor who refused to acknowledge Russia invaded Ukraine and ...