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 ...

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

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

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 Democratic Senate minority leader suddenly decided to back the GOP’s spending bill to avert a government shutdown.

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

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

By using the government to crack down on immigrants, protesters, and political adversaries, the president is laying waste to ...

TOPEKA — Emporia State University president Ken Hush defended Wednesday faculty and staff firings as well as academic program ...

The “Stop the Comstock Act” bill, filed Wednesday, would remove language in federal law that prohibits sending items that ...

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 ...

Charles Schumer was looking for. President Donald Trump gave kudos to the Senate minority leader after Schumer said he would ...