Minority Leader Chuck Schumer took to the Senate floor Friday morning to defend his decision to support a Republican ...

Pelosi criticizes Schumer-backed funding bill, urging Senate Democrats to reject the GOP plan and push for a four-week ...

The GOP-controlled Senate will press forward with a procedural vote to advance a stopgap funding bill to avert a government ...

Alan Simpson, a longtime Republican senator from Wyoming who championed bipartisan solutions and steadfastly advocated for a ...

CNN's Capitol Hill correspondent Manu Raju reports on the struggle taking place within the Senate Democratic caucus over ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A day before a shutdown deadline, Senate Democrats are mounting a last-ditch protest over a Republican-led ...

Senate Democrats gave up their sole point of leverage Thursday, as Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced that ...

Schumer’s comments are a change in tune from Wednesday when he said that Democrats would not provide the votes needed to ...

Democrats and Republicans in the Senate are laying the groundwork for a government shutdown standoff as the clock ticks down.

After meeting with his conference, the Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said "Republicans do not have the votes" to ...

On the menu: more than 200 ideas, ranging from the estate tax to housing credits and loosening the cap on the state and local ...

The House passed a government funding bill, daring Senate Democrats to oppose it and risk a partial shutdown as stocks wobble ...