The Senate voted mostly along party lines Friday afternoon to pass the House Republican-drafted bill to fund government ...

U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto and 24 other Senators are reintroducing a bill that would abolish the Comstock Act.

Senate Democrats, fearful of what Trump might do during a shutdown, voted in sufficient numbers to pass the GOP continuing resolution.

Democrats have been sharply divided over the Trump-backed spending bill to avoid a government shutdown at midnight.

The spending bill, which funds the government through September of this year, was in some doubt as Senate Democrats wavered ...

The Senate on Friday passed a Republican-led stopgap measure to keep the government funded ahead of a midnight deadline.

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

A group of 10 Democrats, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), on Friday voted to advance a ...

The U.S. Senate on Friday night averted a looming midnight shutdown of federal government by passing a funding bill after ...

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

The bill will need 60 votes to invoke cloture to advance to a full vote, meaning eight Democrats must join Republicans in approving the stopgap funding bill.

The spending measure, which passed the House earlier in the week, was presented to the Senate as a take-it-or-leave-it ...