A group of prominent Senate Democrats is pushing to use a must-pass spending bill to cut off funding for the Iran war, complicating the path toward a bipartisan deal for averting a partial government ...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., said at a press conference that Reps. Gregory W. Meeks, D-N.Y., and Jim Himes, D-Conn., the ranking members of the Foreign Affairs and Intelligence ...

Paul LePage, the former Maine governor who once said he was “Donald Trump before Donald Trump,” is heading to Congress. The ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday shut down his administration’s on-again-off-again talks with Iran, saying he would not ...

In an opinion piece in The Boston Globe, consultant Kristin Tate urged New England Republicans to focus on fiscal discipline ...

President Donald Trump’s postelection statements about working with Democrats have presented the incoming majority with a kaleidoscope to decipher, but some Democratic lawmakers have their doubts. On ...

Rep. John Garamendi, D-Calif., was the decisive 218th signature on the discharge petition, a procedural tool allowing ...

Democrat Scott Colom has unseated Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith to become Mississippi’s first Black senator since ...

Ky., announced Wednesday he plans to serve as the top Republican on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee when ...

Senate Republicans on Tuesday were weighing whether to postpone their leadership elections after what several senators ...

Independents made up 33 percent of the electorate; Democrats were at 35 percent and Republicans at 32 percent. This is the ...

More Democrats emerged Tuesday wanting someone besides Senate Democratic leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., to lead their ...