The group includes Democratic moderates, an independent, 4 former governors and 2 senators who have announced they're ...

The government is a step closer to re-opening and ending the longest shutdown in U.S. history. The progress in the weeks-long ...

The pact struck between Republicans and a breakaway group of eight senators sparked fury among many congressional Democrats ...

This was the only deal on the table,” Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) told reporters in a Sunday night press conference.

Senate Republicans hope that the package will be enough to entice enough Democrats to break the logjam in the upper chamber ...

Durbin is the Democratic whip and the only member of party leadership who voted with Republicans to advance the deal to end the shutdown. His likely successor as whip, Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), ...

As eight senators in Chuck Schumer’s caucus broke ranks to side with Republicans and vote to end the government shutdown fight he had engineered, the New York Democrat was on the phone trying to make ...

The Senate on Monday night approved a spending package that would reopen the government but would not address healthcare ...

The reopening is seen as a missed opportunity to many Democrats, as they failed to secure certain health care items.

The decision by eight Democratic senators to embrace a deal to end the government shutdown has infuriated many members of the ...

The Senate stalemate dragged on Thursday, and Senate Democrats remained in high spirits after clinching an Election Day sweep ...

Eight members of the Senate Democratic caucus voted Sunday evening to proceed to a House-passed continuing resolution, taking ...