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

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." ...

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

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

"Every time I get in this car ... it reminds me of just how much damage Elon Musk and Donald Trump is doing to our country," Mark Kelly said.

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

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

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

Senate Democrats are in a politically precarious position after the House passed a stopgap bill to avoid a government ...

New Hampshire Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen’s decision to not seek reelection marks the latest bit of tough luck for Senate ...

The Senate voted mostly along party lines Friday afternoon to pass the House Republican-drafted bill to fund government through September, avoiding a government shutdown only hours before funding ...