Three Senate Democrats broke with their party and voted with Republicans to fund the government and avert a shut down. One of them, Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, explains her reasoning.

Democrats representing states won by Trump last November are also among those viewed as potential key votes on the bill. That ...

Washington is watching closely a handful of Senate Democrats who could hold the keys to ending the first government shutdown ...

U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto says she voted to keep the federal government open and funded.The federal government officially entered into a shutdown at midnight Tuesday.She released the ...

Hours before a midnight deadline, the Senate rejected a Republican bill to extend federal funding at current levels through ...

President Trump signaled on Tuesday that he could try to maximize the pain of a government shutdown, threatening to leverage the imminent closure to fire “a lot” of civil servants and slash a range of ...

Sykes leads effort in the House to block rule that will raise premiums and out-of-pocket costs for working families by billions of dollars ~ WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner (D-VA), ...

On Tuesday, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), a member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, joined ...

This legislation comes in response to a pair of executive orders issued earlier this year by President Trump. These executive ...

The proposal before the Senate to try juveniles as adults in certain cases isn't extraordinary—almost all states adopt such ...

The new poll from Quantus Insights found that Collins and Ossoff each had support from 38 percent of respondents in a head-to-head matchup. Collins fared better against Ossoff than other Republican ...

U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nevada, speaks with a U.S. Forest Service employee after the Davis Fire in Washoe County in 2024. (Photo courtesy of U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto) When Linda ...