Senate Majority Leader John Thune is putting a House-passed bill on Defense Department appropriations up for a procedural vote Wednesday afternoon. With 60 votes required to move forward, the bill will likely need at least seven Democrats to support it,

No votes happened today as much of the US Capitol was off for the Jewish holy day Yom Kippur. The Senate will be back in session Friday, where more votes could be called on the subject, although it is unclear if there will be any new proposals that would trigger a shift in positions.

The Senate on Wednesday was set to take up another series of votes on legislation to fund the government, after a shutdown went into effect overnight. The upper chamber of Congress on Tuesday, as expected, failed to approve a GOP-led stopgap to keep the ...

President Trump told reporters Wednesday that he may attend oral arguments for the legal challenge to his tariffs. "I think I'm going to go to the Supreme Court to watch it. I've not done that and I've had some pretty big cases."

No votes happened today as much of the US Capitol was off for the Jewish holy day Yom Kippur. The Senate will be back in session Friday, where more votes could be called on the subject, although it is unclear if there will be any new proposals that would trigger a shift in positions.

The federal government remains closed Thursday as tensions flared on Capitol Hill ahead of the Senate reconvening. Here's the latest, vote time, more.

Senate Democrats rejected a Republican bill to end the shutdown for the eighth time as President Donald Trump says he’ll reveal a list on Friday of “Democrat programs” that will shut down permanently.