Alan Simpson, a longtime Republican senator from Wyoming who championed bipartisan solutions and steadfastly advocated for a ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate finds itself on Friday in a familiar position, working to avoid a partial government shutdown ...

The House’s passage of a Republican stopgap funding bill has put Senate Democrats in a bind: Either back a measure they ...

Relatives and colleagues remember former GOP Sen. Alan Simpson of Wyoming as a figure who was "gifted in crossing party lines." ...

The Senate passed a House-approved government funding bill that averts a government shutdown that was set to be triggered at ...

The government funding bill that’s headed to the White House limits Washington, D.C.’s ability to fully use its local tax ...

Democrats have reasons to filibuster the Republican bill that keeps the government open without restraining mass government ...

Democratic U.S. Senator Elissa Slotkin of Michigan, a moderate elected in a state carried by Donald Trump last year, made a ...

The top Senate Democrat said his members were not ready to provide the votes to allow the Republican-written stopgap spending ...

Senators voted on Friday to pass legislation to prevent cuts to D.C.’s local budget after city officials warned the District ...