Democrats are looking to pad out their narrow majority in Virginia’s state Senate in a special election on Tuesday. Democrat ...

The Senate voted to advance a House-passed measure to fund the government, marking a key breakthrough in the stalemate and paving the way to reopen the government later this week. In a 60 to 40 vote, ...

The Senate will convene Monday at 11:00 a.m. as legislators seem to inch closer to ending the government shutdown. Eight Senate Democrats broke with their caucus to support an updated GOP-proposed ...

The Senate now has enough Democratic votes to reopen the government after a 40-day shutdown, after a rare Saturday session yielded little progress despite mounting pressures. A group of centrist ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate was drawing closer to a vote on legislation to end the shutdown on Monday after a small group of Senate Democrats broke a 40-day stalemate late Sunday evening and voted ...

Watch live from the Senate floor. The Senate took the first step to end the government shutdown after a group of moderate Democrats agreed to proceed without a guaranteed extension of health care ...

The Senate on Thursday will take up competing health care bills as Affordable Care Act subsidies, which took over headlines during the record-long government shutdown, are set to expire at the end of ...

Iowa Democrats have held onto a critical state Senate seat in a special election Tuesday. Democrat Renee Hardman and ...

Lawmakers were set to return to Capitol Hill on Monday, Nov. 10 after the Senate voted to clear a path toward ending the longest government shutdown in history. On Nov. 9, the Senate voted 60-40 to ...

• Epstein files: The Senate has unanimously agreed to pass the House-backed bill forcing the Justice Department to release the Jeffrey Epstein case files as soon as it’s received from the chamber.