Virginia’s venerable federal legislators, U.S. Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine and, for this area, U.S. Rep. Don Beyer, ...

Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine) defied House Democratic leadership Tuesday when he voted for the GOP’s bill to avert a government shutdown — the only one in the caucus to support the stopgap. Golden’s ...

The House’s passage of a Republican stopgap funding bill has put Senate Democrats in a bind: Either back a measure they ...

A federal government shutdown would be a harmful measure, but one that may be necessary to stop the Trump administration’s ...

The House developed a six-month bill that would continue funding the government and raise the debt ceiling, while making ...

Six Democrats need to vote for the bill, assuming there are no additional Republican defections, in order for it to pass the ...

Senate Democrats are staking out their positions on a bill to temporarily fund the government, known as a continuing resolution (CR), which would avert a federal shutdown. The Republican-controlled ...

A group of senators have introduced legislation that would reinstate veterans fired from federal jobs under President Donald Trump's plan to reduce the federal workforce. Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., ...

After meeting with his conference, the Senate minority leader said "Republicans do not have the votes" to advance the ...

Senate Democrats say they will not vote for the House-passed six-month government funding package, which boosts defense spending and cuts non-defense programs, unless they first get a vote on a ...

The Trump administration is cutting more than 1,900 jobs at the Department of Education, and Ben Cline doesn’t appear ...

Several Republican senators tell Raw Story that they're unwilling to support the House version of the continuing resolution ...