Ill., joined nine other Democratic senators in voting to allow the measure to proceed for a final vote on Friday. Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., voted against it, saying she refuses to give Trump ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) announced Friday afternoon that the Senate would begin voting immediately on a ...

Good afternoon, Chicago. Two top Illinois Democrats, Gov. JB Pritzker and U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth, said today that they oppose a Republican-led stopgap measure that would avert a partial government ...

U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) issued the following statement announcing she will vote no on Republicans’ extremely ...

Laura Fine spoke about the Healthcare Protection Act, which the legislature passed last year. Many of its provisions deal with mental health services, such as granting patients seeking mental health ...

The measure, which passed with bipartisan support and minor changes, now heads back to the House. It is just the second ...

The spending measure, which passed the House earlier in the week, was presented to the Senate as a take-it-or-leave-it ...

Troop pay will be protected and money to cover an upcoming pay raise for junior enlisted service members will be secure after ...

A group of 10 Democrats, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), on Friday voted to advance a Republican-crafted bill to fund the government through Sept. 30, taking a crucial ...

Now that the U.S. Senate has confirmed Bill Pulte as Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), reports have it ...

The Senate voted mostly along party lines Friday afternoon to pass the House Republican-drafted bill to fund government ...

President Trump assailed in biblical terms the “weaponization” of the Justice Department under his predecessor, Joseph R. Biden Jr., saying during a meandering speech in the Great Hall of the ...