Nearly 4 in 10 members of the U.S. House of Representatives did not take their pay during the government shutdown.

Long the most critical branch of the federal government, Congress has ceded much of its own institutional power. Here's how ...

As Congress nears a deal to end the longest U.S. government shutdown, strategists assess the impacts on key players.

Dozens of lawmakers in state legislatures across the U.S. are urging members of Congress to fund the government and avert a looming government shutdown. Republican state lawmakers in several states, ...

The United States federal government has officially shut down. The government entered a partial shutdown at midnight after lawmakers in the Senate failed to pass a crucial short-term funding bill, ...