The filibuster rule has enabled Democrats to block the Republican majority’s attempts to pass bills, including measures to ...

Hunger is not a partisan issue, but it has become one as the federal SNAP program runs out of money. Pantry leaders said ...

Questions about the age and fitness for office of certain lawmakers are spurring conversations about whether Congress, as a ...

President Trump is calling on the Senate to scrap the filibuster, so that the Republican majority can bypass Democrats and ...

Climbing monthly electricity bills, a growing stressor on U.S. families as demand surges for energy, have emerged as a ...

Trump’s sudden decision to assert himself into the shutdown debate — bringing the highly charged demand to end the filibuster ...

The Senate approved House Joint Resolution 6006 on a 21–17 vote during the third day of the special session, ending hours of ...

Outnumbered and facing vast stakes, Justices Kagan and Jackson are split over the best approach: investing in diplomacy ...

Senate Democrats are resisting calls from the nation’s largest union representing federal workers — a longtime political ally — to accept Republicans’ “clean” stopgap to reopen the government. It ...

The building strain on lawmakers to end the impasse was exemplified by the nation's largest federal employee union calling on Congress to immediately pass a funding bill and end the shutdown.

Follow all the latest developments of the 119th Congress ...