Trump’s presidency may have amplified executive power, but unless lawmakers roll back those powers, the next administration ...

Oregon Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley are urging the Trump administration to release funds for SNAP in November, as the ...

Any settlement between President Donald Trump and the Department of Justice would reportedly serve as compensation for past ...

Senate Democrats rejected legislation on Thursday afternoon that would have ensured U.S. service members and some federal ...

Democrats continue to insist on greater health care spending as a condition to reopen the government. But Republicans disagree.

Strongly worded letters are not going to work. To defeat Trump’s autocratic efforts, we need to employ novel and creative ...

Members of Congress are divided largely along party lines on the demolition of the East Wing of the White House to make room ...

WASHINGTON ‒ The Senate on Thursday rejected a Republican-backed bill to pay some federal workers who are working through the government shutdown as the funding fight rolls into Day 23.

Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley now holds the record for third longest Senate floor speech in modern history, after delivering remarks for more than 22 hours. Merkley began speaking on the Senate floor a ...

Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley used a 22-hour Senate speech to warn of “authoritarian control,” citing incidents at Portland’s ICE ...

U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley spoke on the Senate floor for nearly 23 hours beginning Tuesday night against what he called President ...

Led by Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley, Democrats seized the Senate floor on Wednesday to protest President Donald Trump's ...