Democrats on Capitol Hill are waging an internal war against one of their own after the GOP successfully muscled through the Senate a partisan spending bill that drew the votes of Minority Leader ...

Johnson is often thought of as the accidental speaker. And it’s true that he was pulled out of quasi-obscurity after the caucus took down his predecessor Kevin McCarthy just 17 months ago. At the time ...

“You can't lose an election and say that there doesn't need to be change” — that’s how Democratic Rep. Jason Crow sums up the ...

CNN By Morgan Rimmer, Veronica Stracqualursi and Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — Congress averted a government shutdown Friday just ...

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The Senate passed a six-month spending bill on Friday hours before a government shutdown, overcoming sharp Democratic ...