The top two Republicans in Congress are showing no interest in taking the unprecedented step of ending the legislative filibuster, just hours after President Donald Trump made a fresh demand for the Senate to do so to end the government shutdown.

Senate Republicans are resisting his demand to end the long-standing filibuster rule in order to end the government shutdown.

Campaign endorsements are coming in for two Democrats hoping to unseat Republican incumbent U.S. Senator John Cornyn.Fort Worth Congressman Marc Veasey is endorsing former Congressman Colin Allred of Dallas in his bid for the U.

Talks continue on ending a partial government shutdown that will set a new record Tuesday night, while more Americans are feeling the pinch.

In the year since Ruben Gallego won a U.S. Senate seat, he has shown that old maxims about freshman senators being seen and not heard no longer apply. In a span of four days in October, the Arizona Democrat took to national TV and called American military strikes in international waters “murder,

Setti Warren, the former mayor of Newton who also ran for governor in Massachusetts and the U.S. Senate, died unexpectedly at his home Sunday. He was 55 years old.Warren was most recently the Director of the Institute of Politics at Harvard's Kennedy School.

The Senate on Thursday passed a resolution aimed at ending President Donald Trump’s global tariffs introduced last spring, with four Senate Republicans joining Democrats to object to the president’s trade policy.

Shades of optimism filled the Senate this past week as bipartisan talks on a way out of the government shutdown increased.

The Senate voted Thursday to approve a resolution that would block President Trump's tariffs on countries around the world, the third in a trio of rebukes of the president's trade policy this week.