With less than two days until the government shuts down, the ball is in the Senate’s court to pass a short-term funding bill.

Senate Democrats say privately that they will not allow the government to shut down on Saturday, despite growing pressure ...

Senate Democrats have decided not to advance a partisan House-passed funding bill, venturing that Republicans will be to ...

At 83 years old, Sanders is not running for president again. But the stooped and silver-haired democratic socialist has ...

Sixty years ago, the first programs of President Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society” were signed into law. They were part of a ...

Reid’s pugilistic sensibility served him well in politics, lifting him up from abject poverty in Nevada on to Congress, where he became the Democratic Party’s Senate majority leader.

The veto was a body-shaking blow to Texas’ Lyndon Johnson, Senate majority leader, and Sam Rayburn, House majority leader, who had used up much of their credit with congressional Democrats by ...

And finally, in the heaviest lift of them all, Johnson, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) and their leadership teams will have to fill out the specific policy details for the bill within ...

The two government health programs were signed into law 60 years ago by former President Lyndon B. Johnson ... Medicaid a single time,” House Majority Leader Steve Scalise of Louisiana said ...