President Donald Trump spent Sunday night demanding that Senate Republicans blow up a centuries-old legislative check on the party in power. After his calls last week to end the government shutdown by ...

Donald Trump urged Republicans to take drastic action, calling for the “nuclear option” to eliminate the filibuster and end the ongoing government shutdown. Secret Service finds 17 'skimming' devices ...

Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez’s recent opinion piece in The Columbian was dishonest (“Jackhammer is wrong tool,” The Columbian, Oct. 18). She claims, “I could not in good conscience vote to shut down ...

A great way to end the federal government shutdown would be for all the Democrats and Republicans to be locked in a room (much like a jury) and not be allowed out until they pass a spending bill. I ...