The Senate-passed bill to end the record-long government shutdown moved to the full House for a final vote after a key House panel advanced it early Wednesday.

Whether “willfully” in 2 U.S.C. § 192 – which states that anyone who is “summoned … by the authority of either House of Congress” and “willfully makes default” on the subpoena has committed a crime – requires the government to prove the defendant knew his conduct was unlawful;

Congress flouted several legal principles with an unusual provision creating a streamlined path for senator lawsuits, experts said.

House Republicans blast a last-minute provision in the Senate-passed government funding bill allowing senators to sue over the "Arctic Frost" probe.

Roughly 1.4 million federal workers have not been paid for at least six weeks during the shutdown. So, why is Congress still getting paid?

The deal is now being debated by House lawmakers, where a final vote could be expected as early as Wednesday evening. So what's in the deal now? Let's VERIFY.

Dale Romans, pitching himself as an independent-minded Democrat in the mold of Joe Manchin, will try to win a seat for the party in the deep-red state.

A provision limiting the sale of intoxicating hemp products made its way into legislation to reopen the federal government just a day before the Senate approved the bill.