Congress failed to agree on appropriations for the new fiscal year. The 2018-19 shutdown holds the record for the longest shutdown. It lasted 35 days. As the closure stretches ...

David French is an Opinion columnist, writing about law, culture, religion and armed conflict. He is a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom and a former constitutional litigator. His most recent book is ...

With major shutdown impacts beginning to set in, a scholar of Congress says the House has all but abdicated its position as ...

It was completely predictable that President Donald Trump would call on Senate Republicans to end the custom of the filibuster, which has bedeviled majority parties for years.

The Senate majority leader is unwilling to pursue the “nuclear option” to blow past a Democratic filibuster and reopen the ...

It's still early, but the Republican field is coming into focus in Arizona's GOP-friendly 5th Congressional District.

WASHINGTON D.C., DC — U.S. lawmakers are running out of time to avoid a shutdown of the federal government. The government's current budget runs out on Sept. 30. If congress hasn't passed a funding ...

President Trump's expansive interpretation of executive power is continuing to reshape federal spending in a government shutdown.

With food assistance to 1.4 million Michiganders being cut, the Free Press asked the state's members of Congress to talk: ...