None of the sides showed any signs of shifting in the standoff over raising the nation's debt limit Tuesday, as leaders in each party...

Democrats in the House are offering their Republican colleagues a fallback option if they fail to agree amongst themselves on a way to...

Chuck Schumer said Democrats are gaining traction in the debt limit fight. Kevin McCarthy declared he'd bring President Biden "soft food."

Joe Biden may see the COVID relief package that passes Congress this week as a "down payment," but Republicans think it's all he'll get.

Sen. Josh Hawley stepped up his push to send direct payments to Americans reeling from the coronavirus pandemic, offering a bill to do so.

Wilbur Ross, the secretary of commerce whose department is among the parts of the government that are shut down, really prefers to look...

Sen. Patrick Leahy, the last of the "Watergate Babies" in Congress who won election in 1974, didn't want to move from his spot in the...