WASHINGTON (AP) — Easing off a stalemate, the Senate moved forward Tuesday with a power-sharing agreement in the evenly-split chamber after Republican leader Mitch McConnell backed off his demand that ...

The federal government has been shut down for over a month, and political finger-pointing has persisted since it began. Republicans claim that they have passed clean continuing resolutions that get ...

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President Joe Biden was dealt arguably the first loss of his presidency on Monday after word that two Democratic senators would oppose eliminating the Senate filibuster. By keeping the filibuster, ...

Why the former Senate majority leader decided to end the filibuster.

President Trump declared to reporters Friday that Republicans would not lose a future election if the party’s leadership in the Senate moved to eliminate the parliamentary procedure known as the ...