With the narrow Republican majorities in the House and Senate, leaders need almost every lawmaker on board in the face of essentially unified opposition from Democrats.

The biggest question about the strikes, politically, is how much potential they have to sow dissent within both parties. For ...

On June 29, 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment, as then administered by individual states, was ...

The US Senate advanced President Donald Trump's tax-cut and spending bill with a 51-49 vote, amid Democratic opposition and ...

WASHINGTON: At some 940-pages, the legislation is a sprawling collection of tax breaks, spending cuts and other Republican ...

It's unclear if GOP leaders have enough support for the rapidly evolving legislation, with a self-imposed July 4 deadline for passage quickly approaching.

The GOP-led Senate agreed to begin a floor debate likely to go overnight and end with a final vote. The outcome still remains ...

Debate will now begin on the spending bill – and that could take hours as New York Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer has promised to have the nearly 1,000-page measure read before a final vote on ...

Trump threatened to find a primary opponent to GOP Sen. Thom Tillis after the North Carolina lawmaker voted against his legislative package.

The GOP-led Senate agreed to begin a floor debate likely to go overnight and end with a final vote. The outcome still remains uncertain.

Senate Republicans on Saturday narrowly voted to advance a sprawling 1,000-page bill to enact President Trump’s agenda, despite the opposition of several GOP lawmakers. Two Republicans voted ...