Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer on Thursday evening backed off his shutdown threat and said he will vote for the ...

The reversal comes just one day after Schumer warned Republicans they did not have the votes needed to advance the bill. ...

New Mexico's Democratic senators are standing firm in their opposition to a Republican bill to keep the government funded through September because they say it would remove guardrails on federal ...

The U.S. Senate on Friday was poised to pass a stopgap spending bill and avert a partial government shutdown, after Democrats ...

Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader, broke with his party on Thursday and said he would vote for a Republican-written bill to keep federal funding flowing past a midnight Friday ...

“Such a drastic reduction in staff will harm the Forest Service’s ability to respond to wildfire and make Americans less safe ...

Many Democrats had agitated for the party to hang together and block the measure in defiance of President Trump, but the ...

Energy and Natural Resources lawmakers wondered whether federal agencies would have enough workers to process mining permits.

S enate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Thursday evening that he would help advance a House GOP spending bill that ...

Well, no one is going to accuse Melanie Stansbury of being a stateswoman after her performance at last week's joint session of Congress. The second full-term congresswoman from Albuquerque landed a ...

Democrats have said they will not vote for a Republican spending patch that funds the government through September, arguing ...

A federal judge's ruling Thursday that the National Park Service must rehire any employees who were wrongfully fired on ...