Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When House Republicans first passed a stopgap spending bill last month, it was written to give Congress a seven-week window to ...

The federal government has entered a partial shutdown as of midnight Sept. 30. The last attempt to pass a stopgap funding bill occurred around 7:30 p.m. in the Senate, when the upper chamber voted ...

Oct. 6 (UPI) --The U.S. Senate failed to pass a stopgap bill to fund the federal government for the next six weeks, leading the country into a seventh day of shutdown. A bill already passed by the U ...

John writes about the politics of health care, and he is the author of the twice-weekly D.C. Diagnosis newsletter. You can reach John on Signal at John_Wilkerson.07. WASHINGTON — Congress failed to ...