The Senate-passed bill to end the record-long government shutdown moved to the full House for a final vote after a key House panel advanced it early Wednesday.

Whether “willfully” in 2 U.S.C. § 192 – which states that anyone who is “summoned … by the authority of either House of Congress” and “willfully makes default” on the subpoena has committed a crime – requires the government to prove the defendant knew his conduct was unlawful;

The United States Senate voted 60–40 late Monday night to approve a short-term funding bill aimed at ending the longest federal government shutdown in U.S.

The U.S. Senate on Monday night approved bipartisan legislation to end the record-long government shutdown as House Speaker Mike Johnson called representatives to return.

The Senate passed a bill to fund the government and sent it to the House, which could vote as early as Wednesday to end the government shutdown.

Government funding bill includes provision that would create pathway for senators to sue the government if their phone records are investigated without their notice.

Roughly 1.4 million federal workers have not been paid for at least six weeks during the shutdown. So, why is Congress still getting paid?

A provision limiting the sale of intoxicating hemp products made its way into legislation to reopen the federal government just a day before the Senate approved the bill.