A bill in Kentucky that would lower the driving permit age to 15 has been approved by the state’s Senate and will head to the governor's desk.

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

Many hard-right members voted Tuesday for their first stopgap spending bill ever. “I’m as stunned as anybody else,” said Rep.

After the hearing which lasted around two hours, the Senate Education Committee decided to advance Saunders on a 5-1 vote to a full Senate vote. The hearing started with Saunders delivering a speech, ...

The Senate on Tuesday approved Gail Slater, President Trump’s nominee to lead the Justice Department antitrust division, by a vote of 78-19. Ms. Slater, a veteran tech and media lawyer, has pledged to ...

Thune said Democrats voted for a CR in the past. “A similar continuing resolution passed ... with 85 votes. This one should ...

Gail Slater, President Donald Trump's pick to oversee the U.S. Department of Justice's antitrust division, was confirmed by ...

The House passed legislation Tuesday to avert a partial government shutdown and fund federal agencies through September, providing critical momentum as the measure now moves to the Senate, where ...

House Republicans advanced a stopgap bill Tuesday to fund the government until October, putting moderate Senate Democrats in ...

House Republicans muscled a stopgap funding measure to passage over Democratic opposition Tuesday, sending the bill to the ...

The measure would keep expiring government funding and health programs running until the end of September, but leaves physicians facing Medicare cuts.

State legislative leaders called for raising taxes on high earners in their budget plans released Tuesday as well as increasing spending by at least $7 billion despite potential steep cuts in federal ...