Six Democratic Senators split with their party and voted to advance a package that would reopen the government.

Forty-two days after it began, Congress is one step closer to ending the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, but a ...

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

After 14 failed votes on a spending bill to reopen the government, five additional Democratic senators finally broke with their party for a variety of reasons on Sunday night advancing legislation to ...

Members of the House from Illinois voted along party lines on the government funding package to end the shutdown.

After reaching a bipartisan deal, Senate Democrats finally gave Republicans the votes needed to advance a government funding ...

DURBIN DRAMA: Sen. Dick Durbin has long been a central figure in Illinois Democratic politics, a mentor and powerbroker whose ...

As the government shutdown stretches into its ninth day, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., is urging House Republicans to return to Washington and negotiate, warning that millions of Americans could soon see ...

Over the weekend, a group of eight Senate Democrats teamed up with Republicans to vote to advance a measure that would reopen ...

Lawmakers on Capitol Hill said Tuesday that the results of the elections in blue-leaning New Jersey, Virginia and New York ...

The Democratic Party leadership is responding to the mass repudiation of Trump at the “No Kings” protests, in the streets of ...