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.

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

Advocates are seizing the moment to call for change, urging Congress not to “get back in the city management business” before ...

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 ...

Is a 2025 government shutdown happening today? What would a US federal govenment shutdown mean in March? How is Indiana ...

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

Former President George W. Bush is remembering former U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson of Wyoming for his accomplishments, friendship ...

Relatives are remembering former Republican Sen. Alan Simpson of Wyoming as 'an uncommonly generous man' who was 'gifted in ...

The US Senate passed a Republican-led spending bill on Friday, just hours before a government shutdown. The bill, which faced ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate finds itself on Friday in a familiar position, working to avoid a partial government shutdown ...