Senate passed spending bill to end government shutdown after complex procedural hurdles and negotiations involving multiple ...

The premium tax credits initially drafted under the Affordable Care Act were enhanced under the Biden administration during COVID-19.

Rand Paul blocks Senate vote on government funding over hemp regulations, potentially extending shutdown through complex ...

The legislation heads to the U.S. House of Representatives for a vote. Some Democrats broke with their party to help it ...

WASHINGTON >> Here’s a look at how area members of Congress voted over the previous week House Amended appropriations bill The House on Nov. 12 voted 222-209 to pass the Senate ...

Senate Democrats had based the shutdown on the failure of the Republicans to extend subsidies for the Affordable Care Act ...

In 1917, the Senate adopted a rule to invoke cloture, or limit debate. That required a two-thirds vote. In 1975, the Senate change the rule to lower the margin needed to invoke cloture to three-fifths ...

Senate Republican and Democratic leaders say they need to resolve an objection from Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) about a provision ...

The right, for its part, is savoring the spectacle. Donald Trump told Fox News that Schumer "thought he could break the ...

Here’s a look at how Colorado members of Congress voted over the previous week.

Enough Democrats were set to vote for cloture on a new spending package to get over a 60-vote hurdle and set the stage to end the shutdown.

Instead of caving on the shutdown, Democrats should have waited for the GOP to cave on Trump’s demand to scotch this antidemocratic tactic.