The Senate passed a six-month funding bill Friday to avert a government shutdown hours ahead of the midnight deadline, ...

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

The Senate voted to advance a bill to fund the federal government through September and avoid a shutdown on Saturday.

Democrats plan a series of town hall meetings in highly competitive U.S. House of Representatives districts currently held by ...

Former Wyoming Sen. Alan K. Simpson, one of the most colorful lawmakers in recent congressional history, died Friday at age ...

Alan K. Simpson, a Wyoming Republican who served three controversy-rich terms in the U.S. Senate - a tenure animated by a ...

The measure, which passed with bipartisan support and minor changes, now heads back to the House. It is just the second ...

Dr. Mehmet Oz, the former surgeon and television host, was nominated to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Younger Democrats are chafing at and increasingly complaining about what they see as the feebleness of the old guard’s ...

Rep. Chuck Edwards, R-N.C., faced a rowdy crowd at a town hall with constituents Thursday evening, the latest such event to ...

A coalition of national Democratic committees are launching a tour to host town hall meetings with voters in Republican-held ...