John Thune was going to miss his brother’s funeral ... He was known as a good boss, conspicuously minimal churn on his staff, people who worked for him often working for him for an unusually ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) kicked off his new year of leadership by keeping the Senate working for 10 weeks ...

The Senate finds itself on Friday in a familiar position, working to avoid a partial government shutdown with just hours to ...

The U.S. Senate on Friday night averted a looming midnight shutdown of federal government by passing a funding bill after ...

The Senate on Friday narrowly averted a government shutdown at midnight, passing a G.O.P.-written stopgap spending measure ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., and others made the case ... programs and personnel non-essential, furloughing staff with no promise they would ever be rehired. Democrats have been ...

A judge has ordered multiple government agencies, including Veterans Affairs, Treasury and the USDA, to rehire fired workers.