NEW YORK (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Nita Lowey, a long serving New York Democrat who was the first woman to chair the powerful House Appropriations Committee, has died. She was 87. Lowey’s family ...

Former House Appropriations Committee Chair Nita Lowey, a popular Congresswoman (D-NY) who served as a lawmaker for 32 years, has died. Born Nita Sue Melnikoff in the Bronx, she died Saturday at the ...

Colorado’s independent liquor stores won a resounding victory Thursday as a state House committee unanimously approved a bill ...

House Republicans are proposing increases to national defense spending while reducing spending on domestic programs in a ...

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) surprised Washington on Thursday by announcing on the Senate floor that he would vote to advance a House Republican-drafted six-month government ...

WASHINGTON — House Republicans unveiled a spending ... which threatens families in blue and red states alike.” Sen. Susan ...

The six-month continuing resolution for fiscal 2025, which the House ... the United States,” said Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island, who is the top Democrat on the Armed Services Committee and ...

Republicans needed overwhelming support from their members to pass the funding measure, and they got it in the 217-213 House vote.

House Republicans unveiled ... which threatens families in blue and red states alike." Maine Senator Susan Collins, who heads the Senate Appropriations Committee, said the focus must be on ...