The bipartisan group of rank-and-file senators who have been negotiating a way out of the shutdown are mulling over a number ...

Most commentators, including me, concluded that the Tuesday election victory saved Democrats from capitulating to Republican ...

WASHINGTON — Bipartisan talks in the U.S. Senate to end the federal shutdown have taken a positive turn, Senate Majority ...

Senate Republicans reject Democrat offer to extend health care subsidies for a year in order to reopen the government, as a ...

Senators are working through the weekend for the first time since the government shutdown began more than a month ago.

Senators convened for a rare Saturday session aimed at ending the government shutdown, with no signs of an imminent ...

S.D., wanted to keep lawmakers in town until the shutdown ended. While there was a flurry of behind-the-scenes activity, no ...

Democrat and Republican Senators are negotiating over health care subsidies, but bipartisan progress remains uncertain amid ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune quickly swatted down a Democratic offer to reopen the government and extend expiring health ...

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer proposed a "clean" one-year extension to the expiring health care subsidies.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senators are working through the weekend for the first time since the government shutdown began more than a ...