WASHINGTON—Lawmakers are still negotiating in an effort to strike a deal and reopen the government. However, it is hard to tell at this point how and when they will be able to reach an agreement. If Congress cannot resolve the stalemate, hundreds of thousands of federal employees starting this Monday will be furloughed, meaning they […]

WASHINGTON—Hours before the deadline, Senate Democrats blocked the passage of a short-term funding bill, leading to a government shutdown. President Donald Trump and the Senate’s top Democrat leader on Friday failed to reach an agreement on the spending bill. As a last-ditch effort to keep the government open, the Senate scheduled a vote for 10 […]

WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump and the Senate’s top Democrat leader on Friday failed to reach an agreement to avoid a government shutdown at midnight. As a last attempt, Senate has scheduled a vote for 10 p.m. on the House-passed bill to extend funding for four weeks. The Senate has only a few hours left to pass […]

WASHINGTON—The House of Representatives passed a funding bill late Thursday to keep the government open for another four weeks. The Republican-controlled House approved funding on a mostly party-line vote of 230-197, with 11 Republicans opposing and six Democrats backing the bill. The stopgap bill was sent to the Senate, where it will likely face stiff […]

WASHINGTON—Congress voted in favor of President Donald Trump’s landmark tax plan on Dec. 20, paving the way for the first sweeping rewrite of the U.S. tax code since the Reagan years. “It’s the largest tax cut in the history of our country,” said Trump at the White House during an afternoon event marking the bill’s […]

After reconciling differences between the House and Senate bills, Republicans have reached an agreement on the final tax bill, moving one step closer to tax reform. Republican leaders released some of the details of the final tax bill, the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act,” late Friday afternoon. If both chambers pass the final bill, it […]

WASHINGTON—Senate Republicans introduced their own tax plan, which has some significant differences compared to the House version approved by the Ways and Means committee. The differences raise uncertainty about Congress’ ability to meet its year-end deadline to overhaul the U.S. tax code. The Senate is expected to vote for the bill after Thanksgiving. If the […]

The U.S. Senate passed the 2018 budget resolution, a major step toward advancing President Donald Trump’s proposed overhaul of the tax code. On Oct. 19 the Republican-controlled Senate approved the budget for the next fiscal year by a 51 to 49 vote, with opposition from Democrats and GOP Sen. Rand Paul. Trump celebrated the news on Twitter […]

WASHINGTON—A seven-year Republican effort to repeal and replace Obamacare faces a major test this week in the U.S. Senate, where lawmakers will decide whether to move forward and vote on a bill whose details and prospects are uncertain. The Senate will decide as early as Tuesday whether to begin debating a healthcare bill. But it […]

Senate Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) announced late on July 15 that he would be delaying a vote on the Senate’s version of a health care bill designed to repeal and replace The Affordable Care Act. The vote will be delayed until Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) recovers from surgery he had on Friday, July 14 to […]

On Friday the 20th, Donald Trump becomes the 45th President of the United States. What could this mean for US-China Relations?

Donald Trump's pick for Secretary of State suggests blocking Chinese access to islands in the South China Sea. Would this bold move intimidate China, or simply lead to war?

The Australian Senate passed motion 121 on Nov 24 that acknowledges the problem of unethical organ harvesting in foreign countries including forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience. It has recommended the Australian government legislate against its citizens travelling overseas to procure organs from non-consenting donors. The motion was moved by Victorian Greens Senator, Janet […]

In another push for tighter gun control measures to be enacted, Democrats held a sit-in on the House Floor on June 22. Led by Congressman John Lewis (D-GA), the move follows a string of failed gun control measures following the Orlando shooting on June 12, in which 49 people died and 53 were injured. Lewis had the Floor when he asked […]

Saudi Arabia earlier vowed to pull billions of dollars from the U.S. economy if the legislation is passed.

Massachusetts Sen. Edward Markey and Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal, both Democrats, asked executives from 12 airlines on May 10 to remove the baggage fee for the summer—and "put passengers before profits."

The U.S. Senate committee sent a letter to Mark Zuckerberg on May 10 demanding answers after former Facebook employees claimed conservative stories were downplayed on the site’s “trending” section.

Democratic foes gloat that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has guided his Republicans into a political dead end with his unbending edict that President Barack Obama's successor will fill the Supreme Court vacancy and replace Justice Antonin Scalia.

The House and Senate are rushing to send President Barack Obama a massive budget package that would fund the entire government through September 2016 and shower tax breaks on working families, businesses and a wide swath of special interests

A defiant Rand Paul is brushing off weak fundraising and weaker poll numbers as would-be donors and home state Republicans push him to abandon an uphill presidential bid to focus on his Senate re-election