The government shutdown hit Day 34 today, on track to becoming the longest impasse in history. Will the Senate vote today to ...

The government shutdown has reached Day 31, and by Monday it'll tie the longest funding lapse in history. Will Senate vote ...

The shutdown, now in its 34th day, will become the longest in U.S. history on Tuesday, Nov. 4, surpassing the record set in 2018 under Trump.

The federal government remains closed Thursday as tensions flared on Capitol Hill ahead of the Senate reconvening. Here's the ...

The government shutdown is now the second longest in history as Congress prepares to vote again. Here's the latest.

It might be time to add C-SPAN to the old-fashioned saying, “As American as baseball and apple pie.” That’s because the U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission, the bipartisan commission charged with ...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said Tuesday that he is on board with a proposal to have a conversation with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on C-Span. “I look forward to that,” ...

The House is out of session; however, House Democrats have planned an in-person caucus meeting in Washington, D.C., on ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson shared tense exchanges with callers during a rare live C-SPAN appearance Thursday, including one with a military spouse who warned that “my kids could die” over his refusal ...

The next Senate vote on the government shutdown is today, Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2025, after the latest efforts to reach the 60 votes needed to advance a bill to reopen the government failed on Tuesday, ...

C-SPAN callers pleaded with Mike Johnson to reverse course on the shutdown—and just about everything else. He didn’t listen. House Speaker Mike Johnson appeared on C-SPAN’s morning call-in program on ...

David Edwards has spent over a decade reporting on social justice, human rights and politics for Raw Story. He also writes Crooks and Liars. He has a background in enterprise resource planning and ...