The U.S. Senate is meeting Thursday to vote at 11:45 a.m. on various bills, though the House-passed bill to reopen the government is not on the agenda.

Republican senators joined the Democrats' effort to end President Donald Trump's tariffs on Canadian, Brazilian and global imports.

They’ve been predicting we would fold, and we would be predicting they would find a backbone,’ one Democrat says

As the government shutdown hit its 29th day, several senators and representatives on both sides of the aisle have decided to withhold their paychecks.

The Senate’s passage of our bipartisan resolution makes it crystal clear: we will not continue to sit by and relinquish our authority on trade policy while the President’s trade war throws families into financial crisis.

The Senate filibuster is preventing meaningful legislation from being passed, leading to a government that is not functioning as it should, and executive orders becoming the only alternative.

A concurrent resolution has passed both the House and the Senate of the Louisiana Legislature; it's a "request," not an order, and has no force of law.