The Latest Breaking News from Charles E. Schumer

The Senate passed a short-term spending measure Thursday, sending to the House a bill that would avoid a partial government shutdown.

WASHINGTON — A bipartisan Senate duo is still working to pass a bill to overhaul insulin prices, but the outlook is complicated by the messy drug pricing system, politics and a busy congressional calendar.

WASHINGTON — The path to averting a partial government shutdown by Friday night just became a little easier to see, after Senate Democrats said they'd drop a contentious environmental policy rider that had drawn critiques from the right and left.

WASHINGTON — For once, what Sen. Joe Manchin III wanted didn’t matter.

Sen. Joe Manchin III, D-W.Va., agreed Tuesday to remove his energy infrastructure permitting proposal from the short-term spending bill.

WASHINGTON — Legislation by Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin III of West Virginia that would overhaul the federal permitting process for energy and infrastructure projects received the endorsement on Thursday of his fellow Mountain State senator, Shelley Moore Capito, who had previously introduced a Republican bill to counter Manchin’s.

Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer took the first preliminary step Thursday toward considering stopgap funding legislation.

Sen. Joe Manchin III's legislation to overhaul the federal permitting process got a GOP endorsement, but Democrats lined up in opposition.

WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer may take procedural steps beginning Thursday to set up a final vote next week on stopgap spending legislation running through Dec. 16.