Live updates and the latest news as the Senate votes to avoid a government shutdown and Mehmet Oz faces his Senate ...

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer is signaling he’s ready to start the process of considering a Republican-led spending bill to prevent a midnight Friday government shutdown ...

A government shutdown was set to happen at the end of the day Friday. As the clock ticked, Senate Democrats were in an unenviable position. They were forced to choose between a GOP bill that ...

The vote was 54-46. Both Kansas U.S. Senators Jerry Moran and Roger Marshall voted for the bill. Only one Republican, Senator ...

Dozens of House Democrats signed on to a pair of letters to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schuner (D-N.Y.) on Friday, urging him to oppose the House GOP’s government funding bill as the upper ...

Senate Democrats voted to avoid a shutdown but at the cost of throwing their House counterparts under the bus and enabling ...

WASHINGTON - The Senate passed a Republican-led government funding bill on Friday, averting a midnight government shutdown.

Ten Democrats joined with most Republicans to set up a final vote on the six-month spending measure hours out from the shutdown deadline.

The Senate passed a six-month spending bill Friday, hours before a government shutdown, overcoming sharp Democratic ...