Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) announced Friday afternoon that the Senate would begin voting immediately on a ...

Ill., joined nine other Democratic senators in voting for the measure Friday, but he said there was "very little" he liked about it. Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., voted against it, saying she refuses ...

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 ...

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

A group of 10 Democrats, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), on Friday voted to advance a ...

After days of Democratic agonizing, the Senate voted to keep federal funds flowing through Sept. 30 just hours before a ...

U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) issued the following statement announcing she will vote no on Republicans’ extremely ...

Businessman and philanthropist Bill Pulte, who founded the Detroit Blight Authority and whose family has long been connected ...

The federal firings have affected an estimated 6000 veterans, who make up a disproportionate share of the government ...

Susan Collins (R-ME), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV)—co-chairs of the Girl Scouts’ Honorary Troop Capitol Hill—introduced a bipartisan resolution to recognize the 113th birthday ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. Combat Veteran and U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)—a member of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee ...

Illinois’ junior senator has filed legislation in Washington D.C. that would give veterans fired by the recent layoffs under ...