President Donald Trump speaks at the Department of Justice about 'historic reforms' under his administration.

Some Senate Democrats, including Sen. Patty Murray of Washington state, have alternatively pushed for a four-week stopgap ...

Enough Senate Democrats put their disdain for President Trump aside and voted Friday to end a filibuster of a Republican ...

Gov. Maura Healey reduced the cap on the number of families allowed in the state-run shelter system by 1,700 and released ...

Ten Democrats joined with Republicans to clear the 60-vote threshold needed to advance the measure. The vote was 62-38.

Ten Senate Democrats helped Republicans advance a GOP-crafted stopgap spending bill, paving the way for it to pass ahead of the midnight deadline despite concerns from scores of their colleagues.

The Senate voted to end debate on the six-month stopgap funding bill Friday after negotiations all morning and into the ...

Senate Democrats, fearful of what Trump might do during a shutdown, voted in sufficient numbers to pass the GOP continuing resolution.

After Sen. Chuck Schumer announced Thursday that he would reluctantly support the bill, he bore the brunt of that anger, including a protest at his office, calls from progressives that he be primaried ...

The measure had a pathway for passage following the cloture vote on the bill, which passed on a near-partisan basis in the ...

WASHINGTON >> The U.S. Senate today voted to advance a stopgap spending bill and avert a partial government shutdown, after Democrats backed down in a standoff driven by anger over President Donald ...

A spending bill to avert a partial government shutdown has narrowly cleared a key procedural hurdle in the Senate, paving the ...