It was a busy weekend for Senators who convened off-hours to end the shutdown. What happened, and what's next? Another vote? Is the shutdown over?

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) faces a tough decision this week on how to handle a bill that would direct the Department of Justice to publish all unclassified records related to the

The Senate voted Sunday night to reopen the U.S. government after a crippling 40-day shutdown, the longest in American history. The bipartisan continuing resolution bill, which included at least eight Democratic Senators' support in a late-night vote on Capitol Hill,

Although most Senate Democrats may have opposed this bill, they were resigned to the fact that this part of the fight is over, sources said. They will take the battle over health care to the midterms and argue that Republicans refused to do anything for the millions of Americans who will see their health insurance premiums skyrocket.

The United States Senate has taken its first step towards ending the longest government shutdown in the country’s history as lawmakers agreed to move forward with a stopgap funding package. The Republican-led proposal,

The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives voted unanimously on Wednesday to repeal a controversial provision allowing senators to sue federal investigators for $500,000 over unannounced phone record searches,

U.S. Senate candidate Colin Allred is criticizing Democrats for siding with Republicans on a vote to end the shutdown, urging stronger party resolve.

Attorney and cryptocurrency advocate John Deaton has won the endorsement of the Massachusetts Republican Party in his bid for U.S. Senate.