The speaker can only afford to lose one Republican before a second defection would defeat the bill if all members are voting ...

The U.S. Senate passed a bill late Friday that would restore D.C.’s spending authority for the current fiscal year, ...

Washington has until the late spring or summer to raise the borrowing limit past its $36 trillion cap, setting up a test with economy-reverberating consequences for Republicans.

President Donald Trump has signed into law legislation funding the government through the end of September, ending the threat of a partial government shutdown and capping off a struggle i ...

The Senate minority leader finds himself sharply at odds with many members of his caucus, fellow Democrats in the House and liberal activists.

Sinema and then-West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin were the two Democratic senators to prevent the filibuster from being axed.

It is a cruel irony for Schumer. Almost exactly eight months ago, he was the one sitting down with Joe Biden at the ...

Melinda French Gates—philanthropist; billionaire; and former spouse to an original tech titan, Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates ...

The governor's influence is rising in the Democratic party, as she shifts from low-key resistance to full-on protest over Trump's punitive slashing of federal funds ...

Such nostalgia can include favorable feelings for three Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices who, over the course of ...

Gov. Josh Shapiro this week said plugging leaking abandoned wells reduces methane emissions, creates jobs, protects public health and opens up opportunities for rural communities. Shapiro and ...

Massive cuts in federal agency staff, funding suspended or cancelled, data made inaccessible: the 47th president of the US ...