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.

The United States Senate has taken its first step towards ending the longest government shutdown in the country’s history as lawmakers agreed to move forward with a stopgap funding package. The ...

The longest-ever government shutdown could be coming to an end soon, a welcome relief for the federal workers who’ve gone without pay to the Californians who’ve faced delays in key food benefits. In a ...

jockeying over what the final bill should look like. Starting with the dramatic announcement Saturday of an agreement between leaders and Sen. Ben Nelson (Neb.), the last Democratic holdout, House ...

The United States Senate on Thursday invoked cloture to end the filibuster on the nomination hearing of President Donald Trump's nominee for the US Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, with a 51-49 ...

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 ...

On this day in 1975, the Democratic-controlled Senate revised its cloture rule so that only three-fifths of senators — usually 60 — would be required to limit debate. An exception was carved out for ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - Legislative Bill 626 did not pass the cloture vote in the second round of debate Thursday. In today’s cloture vote, there were 32 ‘yes’ votes, 15 ‘no’ votes, and Senator Merv ...

Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court shined a spotlight on how the Senate works, but the debate is steeped in unfamiliar terms: filibuster, cloture, unanimous consent. Here is a guide to ...

On this day in 1975, the Senate, controlled by Democrats, revised its cloture rule so that three-fifths of senators — usually 60 — would be required to limit debate. The exception was the vote to ...