New York Assemblyman Chuck Lavine, a Democrat first elected to state office in 2005, has become one of a handful of unlikely leaders of state efforts to preserve the history of the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol insurrection. Sitting in front of a bookshelf in his home office in Glen Cove, New York, a historic
Senate prepares test vote tonight on GOP spending plan to end government shutdown. Bill would reopen government through Jan. 30, requiring 60 votes to break filibuster.
The U.S. Capitol in Washington on Nov. 9, 2025. Anna Rose Layden/Getty Images The U.S. Senate has voted to end the Democrat filibuster on a funding bill, which is set to end the government shutdown as the impasse neared its 41st day. On Sunday evening, following an unusually busy weekend at the Capitol that saw
The U.S. Capitol in Washington on Nov. 9, 2025. Anna Rose Layden/Getty Images The U.S. Senate is on the verge of overcoming a key procedural hurdle on a bill to end the government shutdown as the funding impasse nears its 41st day. On Sunday evening, following an unusually busy weekend at the Capitol that saw
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) speaks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington on Nov. 7, 2025. J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo A proposal to end the 40-day government shutdown is developing on Capitol Hill, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) told reporters Sunday. “A deal is coming together,” Thune said outside the Senate chamber
Security lines are shown at normal volume for the day and time at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport’s departures level in Charlotte, N.C., on Nov. 9, 2025. Grant Baldwin/Getty Images Flights throughout the United States will be reduced to a “trickle” leading up to the Thanksgiving holiday due to increasing air traffic controller staffing shortages during the
Senate Republicans hope that the package will be enough to entice enough Democrats to break the logjam in the upper chamber and inch Congress closer to ending the 40-day shutdown.