Live updates and the latest news as the Senate votes to avoid a government shutdown and Mehmet Oz faces his Senate ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) announced Friday afternoon that the Senate would begin voting immediately on a ...

President Trump praised Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for saying he would back the GOP spending bill to avert a ...

Congress averted a government shutdown Friday just hours before the funding deadline, after the Senate approved a ...

The Senate has swiftly approved legislation that would allow the District of Columbia to keep its budget intact.

The U.S. Senate on Friday night averted a looming midnight shutdown of federal government by passing a funding bill after ...

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

The Senate has passed a six-month spending bill hours before a government shutdown, overcoming sharp Democratic opposition to ...

The passage of the funding bill came hours before a shutdown, with Democrats under fierce pressure to oppose the measure.

The Senate passed a House-approved government funding bill that averts a government shutdown that was set to be triggered at ...