Live updates and the latest news as the Senate votes to avoid a government shutdown and Mehmet Oz faces his Senate ...

President Trump praised Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for saying he would back the GOP spending bill to avert a ...

A round-up of news briefs from CT Mirror reporters about this week's happenings at the Connecticut General Assembly.

The spending measure, which passed the House earlier in the week, was presented to the Senate as a take-it-or-leave-it ...

New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez led a chorus of outrage at Schumer, accusing him of betraying grassroots Democrats who ...

Privately, many Senate Democrats conceded that their leader was doing his job by protecting his members from a tough vote and ...

The Democratic Party appears fractured as a torrent of frustration and anger has been unleashed on Senate Democratic Leader ...

Veteran Democrats privately believed Chuck Schumer’s decision on the shutdown was inevitable. Others were ready for the top ...

The Senate passed a six-month spending bill Friday, hours before a government shutdown, overcoming sharp Democratic opposition to the measure and sending it to President Donald Trump to be signed into ...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said he will vote to keep the federal government open, bailing on his party’s kamikaze mission to stick it to President […] ...

Senate Democrats remained tight-lipped on Thursday after meeting on the fast-approaching government funding deadline.