The current shutdown began just after midnight on Oct. 1 after Congress failed to pass a new budget, marking the fourth shutdown during a Trump presidency.

With Congress now tied for its longest-ever shutdown, a small group of fed-up lawmakers in Washington are furiously trying to end the standoff as soon as this week.

Since assuming office in January, Mr. Trump and his top aides, seasoned from their first stint in the White House, have ...

"I am hopeful we will have a bipartisan agreement,” Ohio Senate President Rob McColley said about negotiations on a new ...

La., would halt lawmakers from being paid for each day the shutdown continues, while also sidestepping the constitutional ...

National Republicans accuse Massachusetts of gerrymandering, but the architects of the state’s congressional maps say it’s a ...

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It follows a Congress that has already seen Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) break the Senate floor speech record, the longest House floor vote in modern history, the most votes taken in a “vote-a-rama,” and ...

The federal government has been shut down for almost four weeks, with no end in sight. But even if Congress finds a way out ...

The House approved the resolution Wednesday and the Senate action is the last step in advancing the constitutional amendment ...

For more than four decades, Wisconsin’s 7th U.S. House district was represented by former Democratic Congressman Dave Obey, ...

The Ohio Redistricting Commission approved a new map of congressional districts that would be used for the first time in the ...