The Senate approaches a key test vote Friday afternoon as lawmakers work to avoid a partial government shutdown , with Democrats confronting two painful options: allowing passage of a bill they believ ...

The fund was meant to allot $22.8 billion to cover expanded benefits for former service members sickened by military toxic ...

Fox News senior congressional correspondent Chad Pergram breaks down the debate over transgender athletes in women's sports ...

The March 9 edition of The Spokesman-Review had an article and letters to the editor with such contrast. The front page article that Rep. Baumgartner supports Ukrainian refugees was a wonderful ...

Senate Democrats say the six-month government funding resolution that passed the House Tuesday is a “horrible” bill, but there’s growing sentiment within the Senate Democratic conference that it ...

A bipartisan effort to ban hair discrimination has been reintroduced in Congress as the Trump administration targets ...

The city of Carver, once the last stop for steamboats traveling up the Minnesota River, wants to upgrade a levee that has ...

His putative allies are, after all, terrified of harassment and physical violence from the army of released insurrectionists ... a carveout for the Senate's filibuster rule, and take the heat ...

If it passes the House, where a simple majority is needed, the legislation will require 60 votes in the Senate, meaning at least seven Democrats would need to back it to break a filibuster.

The bill passed in the House in 2022 but failed to gain enough Republican support in the Senate to override a filibuster by Kentucky ... including locs. The Army in 2021 also expanded its ...

There has been some pushback from the judiciary, with an army of lawyers and a set of ... That starts with holds and filibusters on every Trump nominee for an executive post or judicial vacancy.