The advance vote: The Senate voted 62-38 to end debate on the bill – a cloture vote – and advance it to a final vote. Nine ...

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

WASHINGTON – Ten Senate Democrats joined with most of their GOP colleagues on Friday to advance a government funding bill, averting a partial shutdown of major federal services beginning at midnight.

Senate Democrats are still not committing to helping Republicans pass a seven-month funding stopgap, edging the country ...

Schumer said he is the "best at winning Senate seats" amid questions about his leadership after he voted to advance a GOP ...

The Senate passed a House-approved government funding bill that averts a government shutdown that was set to be triggered at the end of the day Friday. The Senate voted 54 to 46 to pass the bill. The ...

Democrats are openly questioning whether they lost their last point of leverage by ceding to Republicans in the latest ...

WASHINGTON – It's a bad week to be a Senate Democrat. With less than 48 hours until a government shutdown, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and his party's members are being forced to choose ...

The U.S. Senate passed a stopgap spending bill Friday evening, averting a partial government shutdown and overcoming ...

Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada were among the first Democrats to publicly back the Republican funding bill, arguing that a ...

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

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