The U.S. Senate failed for the 12th time on Wednesday to approve a bill to fund the government, meaning the government ...

Democratic Senator Jeff Merkley spoke all night into the next morning about how Trump is pushing the country toward ...

The government shutdown stretched into Day 23 on Thursday as the Senate plans a vote on a measure to pay some federal workers ...

Democratic Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon has wrapped up a record-breaking, 22-and-a-half-hour speech protesting President ...

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

Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon is staging a marathon speech to protest what he calls President Donald Trump’s ...

The Senate failed to advance the House-passed funding bill that would end the government shutdown for the 12th time on ...

Oregon's Jeff Merkley spoke on the Senate floor all night long and into the evening on Oct. 22 to protest the Trump ...

WASHINGTON — Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., held the Senate floor for 22 hours and 37 minutes in protest of what he described as ...

Ore., passed the 14-hour mark Wednesday morning in his filibuster speech on the "grave threats to democracy" he said ...