Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) announced Friday afternoon that the Senate would begin voting immediately on a ...

A vote to end debate on the House-passed stopgap spending bill to avoid a government shutdown will take place on Friday ...

(The Center Square) – After a nail-biter cloture vote in the U.S. Senate, a government shutdown appears unlikely as ...

Democratic Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff announced he will vote against the GOP spending bill Thursday, defying Senate Minority ...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer vows that if Republicans seek to push a bill through the Senate to shutter the ...

The U.S. Senate on Friday night averted a looming midnight shutdown of federal government by passing a funding bill after ...

The bill will need 60 votes to invoke cloture to advance to a full vote, meaning eight Democrats must join Republicans in approving the stopgap funding bill.

The vote was the second of two key votes that passed the bill: The advance vote: The Senate voted 62-38 to end debate on the ...

Democratic leader Chuck Schumer voted alongside Republicans to advance a House GOP spending bill that would keep the ...

Congress averted a government shutdown Friday just hours before the funding deadline, after the Senate approved a ...

And while the House requires only a simple majority, a 60-vote threshold is required to invoke cloture and advance most measures in the Senate, meaning the support of Democrats was needed to get ...

The vote was the second of two key votes that passed the bill: The advance vote: The Senate voted 62-38 to end debate on the bill – a cloture vote – and advance it to a final vote. Nine ...