The House’s approval of the three bills — Interior-Environment, Energy-Water and Commerce-Justice-Science — marks an important step forward for congressional appropriators as they work to finalize and pass the remaining spending bills before the Jan. 30 funding deadline.

The legislation to continue ACA funds for three years passed with unanimous support from Democrats and a group of Republicans who rebelled against party leaders to force the vote.

Senate Democrats are attempting to push back against President Donald Trump’s increasingly aggressive use of the U.

The House approved a bill to restore expired ACA tax credits, lowering insurance costs for millions, including 92,000 El Pasoans. Now it moves to the Senate.

The bill's passage is a setback for House Republican leadership, which controls the lower chamber of Congress by a narrow majority. The vote was forced when four members of the Republican rank-and-file crossed the aisle last month to support a procedural tactic known as a discharge petition.

Republican senators are opposing provisions in a federal spending bill that would allocate approximately $5.69 billion for refugee assistance services.

The Massachusetts Senate plans to soon debate a bundle of local tax relief bills, after its Ways and Means Committee voted Thursday to advance four bills meant to give municipalities tools to ease property tax burdens on lower- and middle-income homeowners,

COLUMBUS, Ohio - A sweeping higher education law, Senate Bill 1, has begun reshaping Ohio’s 14 public universities and 22 community colleges in just a short time since taking effect. The Republican-backed bill,