The Senate passed a six-month spending bill on Friday hours before a government shutdown, overcoming sharp Democratic opposition to the measure and sending it to President Donald Trump to be ...

Congress has been unable to pass the annual appropriations bills designed to fund the government, instead passing short-term extensions. House Democratic leaders who essentially held the line ...

Christopher Landau, of Maryland, to be Deputy Secretary of State Ideology data is based on DW-NOMINATE statistics developed by Keith Poole and Howard Rosenthal. More information can be found at ...

The House is taking up Senate Joint Resolution 21 ... which is why we haven't had one since the 1700s. Indiana is one of about a dozen states agitating for what's called an Article V convention ...

And what has been done about it? Nothing. It’s time to change that. Enter the Senate Republicans’ fraud prevention plan, which we unveiled recently. One major obstacle is that state employees ...

Sponsor Message The bill puts significant pressure on Democrats in the Senate whose votes will be needed in order to pass the bill and avoid a shutdown. The federal government runs out of money at ...

The House voted 217-213 to pass a spending bill, which now heads to the Senate. In dramatic fashion, House Republicans passed a bill to fund the government through the end of September 2025 -- a ...

By David McCabe The Senate on Tuesday approved Gail Slater, President Trump’s nominee to lead the Justice Department antitrust division, by a vote of 78-19. Ms. Slater, a veteran tech and media ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Lori Chavez-DeRemer attends a hearing of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on her ...

Multiple Republicans in Georgia aren't ruling out running for Senate in 2026 to take on vulnerable Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff—but they're making it very clear that the nomination belongs to ...