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

An afternoon vote was expected to clear the way for a Republican-written bill to keep government funding flowing past ...

The Senate inched closer to funding the government before the deadline Friday. Needing 60 votes to keep the lights on and ...

Minority Leader Chuck Schumer took to the Senate floor Friday morning to defend his decision to support a Republican ...

The measure had a pathway for passage following the cloture vote on the bill, which passed on a near-partisan basis in the ...

Enough Senate Democrats put their disdain for President Trump aside and voted Friday to end a filibuster of a Republican ...

Some Senate Democrats, including Sen. Patty Murray of Washington state, have alternatively pushed for a four-week stopgap ...

Ten Democrats joined with most Republicans to set up a final vote on the six-month spending measure hours out from the shutdown deadline.

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