Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer warned that Republicans lack the votes in the upper chamber to pass their plan to avert ...

Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada were among the first Democrats to publicly back the Republican funding bill, arguing that a ...

Gun rights advocates have been fighting to overturn a Florida law setting the minimum age to buy a gun at 21 since the day ...

House and Senate Republicans are sinking deeper into an impasse over how to advance President Donald Trump’s vast legislative agenda.

There are signs from the Senate on a potential way to avoid a federal government shutdown. But 60 votes are needed to move anything forward and it's still unclear if enough Democrats will join ...

The House has passed legislation to avert a partial government shutdown and fund federal agencies through September.

The resolution would have urged the United States Supreme Court to overturn a 2015 decision that federally legalized same-sex marriage.

Lawmakers worked to quickly pass bills out of their legislative chamber to get them to the other side of the building and one step closer to becoming law.

Democrats are still divided over whether they should attempt to utilize their leverage to extract concessions from Republicans or risk a shutdown.

D.C. officials are sounding the alarm that major economic development projects could be impacted by the federal spending bill that is positioned to strip $1.1 billion from the District’s current ...

The U.S. Senate advanced a spending bill that would fund the government through the end of September, a step to avoid a ...