The House on Thursday cleared bills to keep the government running through April and authorize hundreds of water projects, but a Senate fight over benefits for retired coal miners threatened to lead to a government shutdown this weekend. House members promptly bolted home for the ...
Congressional leaders have broken a stalemate over money to address the Flint, Michigan, water crisis, clearing the way Wednesday for a spending bill needed to keep the government running until December. The hybrid spending measure — the last major item on Capitol Hill's pre-election agenda ...
China is accusing the U.S. Congress of "groundless accusations" after the House passed a resolution calling on China to end alleged organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience. The resolution passed Monday calls on the State Department to report annually to Congress on the implementation of ...
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton promised Puerto Ricans on Tuesday that his wife, Hillary Clinton, will fight for equal treatment of the economically struggling U.S. territory if she's elected president. He also said she backs immediate action to restructure the island's $70 billion public debt ...
The Republican-controlled Congress is ready to act on President Barack Obama's long-stalled request for emergency funds to combat the Zika virus, which has been linked to serious birth defects and other major health problems. Obama requested $1.9 billion three months ago for several purposes, including ...
Members of Congress urged the Obama administration on Wednesday to order more naval operations close to disputed islands in the South China Sea. The State Department said Beijing risks conflict and isolation through its assertive behavior in those waters. Twice since the fall, the U.S. ...
Residents of the Middle East should not be too alarmed at the prospect of Donald Trump becoming president, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham told reporters in Cairo on Sunday. "The Congress is going to be around no matter who is the president," Graham, who is leading ...
Congress increasingly is being defined by what it's not doing this election year. The Senate returns this week with a strong majority of Republicans saying no to any consideration of President Barack Obama's nominee to the Supreme Court. No hearings, no vote and, for some ...
Lawmakers again are targeting the pharmaceutical industry over sky-high prescription drug prices, a hot issue this year in Washington and on the campaign trail that's been dragging down stock prices of many drugmakers. Shares of Medivation tumbled Tuesday after a group of lawmakers started a ...
A growing political war of words over whether to take in Syrian refugees in the wake of last week's terror attack in Paris may be morphing into the next government shutdown showdown. Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions sent a letter to colleagues Monday urging them to ...
In the fight against the Islamic State group, members of Congress talk tough against extremism, but many want to run for cover when it comes to voting on new war powers to fight the militants, preferring to let the president own the battle. They might ...
Just hours before a midnight deadline, a bitterly divided Congress approved a stopgap spending bill Wednesday to keep the U.S. government open — but with no assurance there won't be yet another shutdown showdown in December. Democrats helped beleaguered House Republican leaders pass the measure ...
