The Senate has taken the first step to end the government shutdown after a group of moderate Democrats agreed to proceed ...

The Senate was poised to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history Sunday night as Democrats and Republicans said ...

Meanwhile, the Senate could vote Sunday night on a test vote that would fund the government through Jan. 31 and end the ...

The decision to fold on the shutdown is likely to fan the flames of the Democratic Party’s raging discontent with its elected ...

The conventional wisdom about government shutdowns is that they always fail. Senate Democrats probably assumed as much when ...

Lawmakers in the Senate cut a deal Sunday evening to end a federal government shutdown, but the path ahead still remained ...

Bipartisan vote ends weeks of gridlock and moves to restore government operations, yet delays in U.S. weapons shipments ...

The agreement opened the way for a Senate vote in which eight Democratic defectors voted to break the filibuster and to clear the first hurdle to reopening the government after nearly six weeks. Their ...

One of the top concerns in the shutdown fight has been Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, which have seen a ...

The U.S. Senate voted 60–40 to advance a key funding bill that could end the longest government shutdown in history. Eight Democrats joined Republicans to move the measure forward, with the House set ...