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

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

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

Unless Congress can pass a bill to fund the federal government (which Donald Trump then signs) before midnight on Friday, the ...

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

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

Senate votes on funding bill ahead of midnight deadline to avoid government shutdown - Democrats warn against GOP’s ...

A spending bill to avert a partial government shutdown has narrowly cleared a key procedural hurdle in the Senate, paving the ...

Democratic leader Chuck Schumer voted alongside all Republicans in a key procedural vote to advance House Republicans’ ...

Washington is now fully set to avert a government shutdown after an up and down week that saw House Republicans offering a ...

Democrats voted to end the filibuster, paving the way for Republicans to pass their funding bill before the shutdown deadline ...