Lawmakers have departed Washington for spring recess locked in a stalemate over funding for the Department of Homeland Security. But even as their movements outside the halls of Congress face ...

WASHINGTON — Utah Sen. Mike Lee is demanding congressional leaders bring lawmakers back early from an ongoing two-week recess, calling it "inhumane" to have lawmakers out of town as the partial ...

Protesters gathered in the Senate chamber for the State & Local Government Committee on the second day of the special session ...

President Donald Trump floated cutting Congress' two-week spring recess short as the Department of Homeland Security shutdown continues, but the move is unlikely as lawmakers are still negotiating, ...

Early last week, President Trump told the New York Post he was considering calling Congress into special session, in the middle of its two-week Easter recess, to resolve the funding stalemate at the ...

A deal to end the government shutdown has been reached, but is the DHS shutdown over? Not quite. In a rare pro forma Senate session today, April 2, Senate Majority Leader John Thune sent the DHS ...

The Senate unanimously moved to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security, except for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and part of Customs and Border Protection, in a rare overnight session.