The advance vote: The Senate voted 62-38 to end debate on the bill – a cloture vote – and advance it to a final vote. Nine ...

The passage of the funding bill came hours before a shutdown, with Democrats under fierce pressure to oppose the measure.

Congress averted a government shutdown Friday just hours before the funding deadline, after the Senate approved a ...

The U.S. Senate on Friday passed a stopgap spending bill, averting a partial government shutdown, after Democrats backed down ...

The plan would avert a government shutdown but give Donald Trump and Elon Musk more power over spending, sparking fierce ...

The Senate voted 62 to 38 Friday evening to advance a GOP spending bill to avert a partial government shutdown ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., speaks to reporters as Republicans work to pass an interim spending bill that ...

Under Trump’s directive the Department of Education laid off half its staff. The lawsuit argues Trump has no authority to ...

The Senate voted to advance a bill to fund the federal government through September and avoid a shutdown on Saturday.

The Senate is preparing to give final approval to a bill that could result in harsher prison sentences for fentanyl ...

Alan Simpson, an old school moderate Republican senator who helped craft major U.S. immigration reform in 1986 and made ...

Alan Simpson, a longtime Republican senator from Wyoming who championed bipartisan solutions and steadfastly advocated for a ...