Rising to leadership of the U.S. Senate appropriations committee this year positioned Republican Sen. Susan Collins to bring home a lot of federal money for projects across Maine. But the stopgap ...

The U.S. Senate passed a stopgap spending bill Friday evening, averting a partial government shutdown and overcoming Democratic opposition to the measure.

The Senate passed a Republican-led government funding bill on Friday, narrowly averting a midnight government shutdown. D.C.

Ten Democrats voted to advance the continuing resolution (CR) to fund the government through September, setting the stage for ...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) addressed the upper chamber and publicly declared his intention to vote for the ...

The Senate today passed the continuing resolution written by House Republicans to fund the government through the end of the fiscal year on September 30. The vote was 54 to 46. The CR was ...

The Senate on Friday passed a Republican-led stopgap measure to keep the government funded ahead of a midnight deadline.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich appeared on Fox Business Friday and said that the latest actions by the GOP signal a ...

President Donald Trump forges ahead with his efforts to remake the federal government after the Senate passed a stopgap bill ...

The spending measure, which passed the House earlier in the week, was presented to the Senate as a take-it-or-leave-it ...

President Trump has taken a blowtorch to our country and wielded chaos like a weapon. Most Republicans in Congress, meanwhile ...

The Senate passed a Republican-led spending bill Friday hours before a government shutdown, overcoming sharp Democratic opposition to the measure and sending it to President Donald Trump to be signed ...