The Senate approved cloture on the deal to reopen the government and extend the debt limit through early next year by 83-16 Wednesday night in
Racing the calendar and the financial markets, Senate leaders have taken the helm in the search for a deal to end the partial government shutdown
The new Republican-led House is poised to deliver an emphatic thumbs-down to President Barack Obama‘s landmark health care overhaul, with no ready substitute of its
The U.S. tax code is “ripe” for reform and fixing it will be a top priority for Democrats this year, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid
Senate Democrats have what they think may be a unique window of opportunity to tame the filibuster power that the Republican minority has used so
The great wall of GOP resistance, the Berlin wall of modern Washington politics, is already crumbling and threatening to the GOP takeover of the House
In the middle of a House debate, Democratic Rep. John Yarmuth of Kentucky handed the woman in charge of the rules a paper bag. Rep.
This is the story of a “lame duck” Congress that wasn’t. Shaken by a historic election in which angry voters canceled Democratic control of the
From the wreckage of the mid-term elections, US President Barack Obama, preaching pragmatism and bi-partisanship, is engineering a political rebound and reinvigorating his administration. Yet
The Senate on Sunday passed a sweeping bill to make food safer, sending it to the House in the waning days of Congress. It was