A spending bill to avert a partial government shutdown has narrowly cleared a key procedural hurdle in the Senate, paving the ...

Washington is now fully set to avert a government shutdown after an up and down week that saw House Republicans offering a ...

The D.C. Scorecard tracks how Memphis’ representatives in Washington voted in the passage of a continuing resolution avoiding ...

Ill., joined nine other Democratic senators in voting for the measure Friday, but he said there was "very little" he liked about it. Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., voted against it, saying she refuses ...

The Senate passed a stopgap funding bill that averts a government shutdown and provides $6 billion in new spending for ...

The continuing resolution cuts some funding for transportation safety projects and Army Corps of Engineers civil works.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) brushed off questions surrounding his leadership and defended his decision to vote to advance the six-month GOP-crafted continuing resolution (CR) ...

The Senate approved a separate bill that allows D.C. to continue operating under its current budget, which seemed on track to ...

President Trump praised Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for saying he would back the GOP spending bill to avert a ...

The Senate voted 54 to 46 Friday to pass the Republican-backed continuing resolution to fund the government through the end of September, narrowly avoiding a government shutdown. The measure divided ...

The Senate has swiftly approved legislation that would allow the District of Columbia to keep its budget intact.