Congress faces a Dec. 20 deadline to avert a government shutdown and is expected to kick the funding fight til early 2025 ...

Congress is back in Washington and lawmakers have a long to-do list before they adjourn for the year that includes avoiding a ...

As Congress reconvenes following the Thanksgiving break, a critical deadline looms over Capitol Hill. Lawmakers face a race ...

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Monday indicated that bipartisan negotiations to avert the threat of a ...

Congress returns this week from a Thanksgiving recess with a number of priorities to get through before the end of the year.

Government-shutdown drama has been a regular tradition. But this year, Republicans are happy to wait until they control ...

The Democratic-led U.S. Senate returned on Monday for a showdown with the Republican-controlled House of Representatives over ...

If Congress does not pass some form of stopgap bill or appropriations package prior to Dec. 20, the government will enter ...

During a shutdown, essential government employees work unpaid until Congress reaches a resolution. That would include air ...

Some lawmakers in the lame-duck session of Congress want to include specific provisions to help commodity farmers who weren’t hit by a disaster in any potential disaster aid packages.

The main challenge for lawmakers over the next three weeks is to avert a pre-Christmas partial government shutdown by ...

Congress has passed the defense bill, dubbed the National Defense Authorization Act, every year for more than six decades.