One likely Republican candidate is Mike Rogers, who narrowly lost to Democrat Elissa Slotkin in an open U.S. Senate contest ...

If there is one fact in American politics that both sides -- all sides -- of the political spectrum seem to agree on, it's this: Democrats are having trouble expressing themselves in a way that peopl ...

A familiar scene has played out over and over in the U.S. House: Republicans, unable to approve federal funding legislation on their own, edge toward a risky government shutdown, until Democrats swoop ...

In 2015, the new Republican majority in the West Virginia Legislature made judicial elections non-partisan. But a decade later, the Republican supermajority in the state Senate wants to return ...

Live updates and the latest news as the Senate turns to a government funding bill to avoid a shutdown and Trump's pick to ...

The Senate plans to take up a House-passed bill to fund the government through September beginning on Friday, which needs the support of Democrats to move forward.

Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is set to announce that he will not seek an open U.S. Senate seat in Michigan, a move that leaves the door wide open for him to seek a much bigger role ...

Several Senate Democrats have said they will not vote in favor of the current spending bill, raising the chances of a possible government shutdown.

Senate Dems are mounting a last-ditch protest over a GOP-led government funding bill that fails to slap any limits on Trump ...

The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee approved Dr. Jayanta Bhattacharya’s nomination to be NIH director ...