The new Congress began Friday, ushering in a tiny House Republican majority to tackle enormous tasks in the first year of ...

Now Republicans again will be in control as the 119th Congress convenes today. U.S. Rep. Glenn Thompson, R-Centre, ticked off ...

As U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson vies to keep his gavel, President-elect Donald Trump on Monday gave the Louisiana ...

Legislation passed by the U.S. Congress on Dec. 21 to avoid a government shutdown did not contain any benefits for U.S.

Government offices and economic analysts found that previous full and partial government shutdowns cost the U.S. multiple ...

WASHINGTON —Here’s a look at how area members of Congress voted over the week ending Dec. 24.

Trump’s planned immigration policies are poised to create an unprecedented humanitarian crisis in Mexico and at the border, ...

That Donald Trump failed to achieve central goals in the government shutdown fight alongside Elon Musk seemed unimportant to ...

President Biden signed stopgap spending legislation Saturday to avert a shutdown, extending government funding until March 14,while providing more than $100 billion in disaster and farm aid. The chanc ...

President-elect Trump’s tough talk about Greenland and the Panama Canal shows that he’s most comfortable playing offense, ...

However, Congress has passed legislation to pay service members during specific government shutdowns in the past.