Congress
The Senate broke a monthlong impasse on its annual defense policy bill and secured a deal that could see the…
For Texas Sen. John Cornyn, the more the merrier. Despite the entry of Rep. Wesley Hunt into Texas’ ferocious GOP…
The IRS is walking back guidance on back pay for staffers a day after the agency furloughed almost half its…
The Senate rejected dueling bills to fund the government for a seventh time Thursday, as the federal shutdown appears all…
Senate Majority Leader John Thune shot down speculation that Republicans would deploy the so-called nuclear option to break the funding…
Chuck Schumer is winning over critics who bashed him for surrendering during this spring’s shutdown standoff. That could change fast.…
Speaker Mike Johnson heard a plea from a military family to move legislation paying active-duty forces amid the government shutdown…
Rep. Ken Calvert, the House Republican in charge of defense funding, is throwing his weight behind a bipartisan bill that…
Senate Democrats are warming up to an upstart oyster farmer in the crucial Maine Senate race. Now they’ll have to…
Chuck Schumer ended the last shutdown standoff as a villain to Democrats outraged at his decision to surrender to Republicans.…