Here’s a look at how area members of Congress voted over the previous week. There were no key votes in the House this week.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer D-N.Y., speaks to press on Wednesday after filing a cloture motion and amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that would force a Senate vote on ...

As the US government shutdown appears set to become the longest in the country’s history, President Donald Trump has urged ...

The U.S. government shutdown entered day 21 after the Senate failed to pass a GOP funding bill, keeping federal services ...

Turns out there is a way for conservatives to filibuster Majority Leader Harry Reid’s, D-Nev., plan to fund Obamacare. Critics of the effort to defund Obamacare insisted earlier this week that there ...

Mr. Cruz even voted to open debate. After the vote, Senator Mike Lee, Republican of Utah and a Cruz ally, said Mr. Cruz never intended to oppose the motion to take up the bill, a position contradicted ...

The Senate will meet on Friday morning to cast a key vote in the confirmation process of Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. The motion, called a cloture vote, will allow Majority ...

Sen. Rand Paul waged an old-fashioned filibuster of CIA director nominee John O. Brennan Wednesday, taking to the floor for more than 12 hours to protest the Obama administration’s stance over whether ...

WASHINGTON, June 4, 2013 - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., filed a cloture motion late Tuesday for the farm bill after yet another day of political squabbling over which additional ...