The Senate is set to vote on advancing a measure to pay federal employees. What is it, and will it end the shutdown? What to know.

N.Y., offered to extend Obamacare subsidies in exchange for reopening the government as the 38-day shutdown continues.

The Fairness Act has rolled back old rules that reduced benefits for certain public workers and their spouses.

Democratic Sen. Gary Peters said the bill leaves too much discretion to President Trump to decide which federal employees get ...

The GOP-backed bill would pay federal employees who are working during the government shutdown, with Republicans continuing to put pressure on Democrats to reopen the government.

The hearing comes less than two months after the House version of the Lumbee Fairness Act was passed on Sept. 10, when it was added as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act. Wednesday ...

A hearing in D.C. has highlighted a rift between N.C. senators and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians over the federal ...

Wednesday's Senate Committee on Indian Affairs hearing discussed Senate Bill 107, known as the Lumbee Fairness Act, to ...