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The Senate is taking a procedural vote Friday afternoon on a Republican-led stopgap measure to keep the government funded ...

Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) became the third Senate Democrat to publicly support advancing the House-passed stopgap ...

Many in the party felt the New York Democrat was not showing sufficient fight, arguing that a government shutdown would force ...

Schumer's surprise reversal, first announced Thursday evening -- comes one day after he said he and Democrats would try to ...

Multiple federal offices in and around San Diego County could lose their tenancy as early as this summer as part of a muddled ...

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

After announcing that he be a no vote on the proposed spending plan -- a decision that could have led to a government shutdown -- Schumer backed down, saying from the floor he would vote yes.

House Democratic leaders are staying mum on their assessment of Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) amid the uproar over his support for advancing a controversial Republican spending ...

Privately, many Senate Democrats conceded that their leader was doing his job by protecting his members from a tough vote and ...