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A Senate-brokered deal in mid-November 2025 set the path to end the 43‑day shutdown by passing a short-term funding bill and promising a December Senate vote on extending Affordable Care Act (ACA) pre...
It takes 60 votes in the Senate to invoke cloture and overcome a filibuster on a continuing resolution in most cases (three-fifths of the full Senate) — often described as “60 votes” when the Senate i...
New Hampshire is represented in the U.S. Senate by senators: Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan. Multiple contemporaneous records and official websites identify both individuals as New Hampshire’s U.S. ...
New England’s 12 Senate seats in 2025 are , making the region markedly more Democratic than the country as a whole, where Republicans hold a narrow Senate majority. Nationally the Senate is reported a...
Eight Senate Democrats voted to advance the funding bill that ended the 2025 shutdown, giving the measure the 60 votes needed to overcome the filibuster; major outlets list those senators (including T...
Several moderate and swing-state Senate Democrats have publicly tied conditions to ending the 2025 government shutdown, but the landscape is fragmented: New Hampshire’s senators are explicit about dem...
Congress has launched a mix of formal letters, committee hearings, funding maneuvers and new legislation to scrutinize the Veterans Affairs’ planned workforce reductions and related contractor actions...
Donald Trump has directly criticized specific veterans and veterans-speaking-turned-lawmakers most recently by labeling a video by Democratic veterans in Congress “seditious behavior,” and he has a lo...
The central negotiators who brokered the deal to reopen the government were Senate Majority Leader John Thune and the White House on the Republican side, working in tandem with a small group of Democr...
Eight Senate Democrats broke with most of their party to back a bipartisan package that reopened the federal government, trading immediate funding through January 2026 and protections for federal work...
Eight senators who caucus with Democrats voted to advance a short‑term funding bill that enabled a deal to end the government shutdown; those senators included a mix of retirees, independents, and mem...
The reopening deal that moved through the Senate in 2025 passed with backing from a coalition that included , even as Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell publicly opposed the measure. Reporting a...
Seven to eight Senate Democrats broke with party leadership to advance the 2025 short-term funding bill, joining Republicans and Independent Angus King to move a compromise that would reopen the gover...
The Senate agreed to reopen the government after a narrowly negotiated compromise that delivered the and ended a six-week stalemate by trading immediate funding and protections for federal employees i...
Key claims in the provided analyses disagree about who the principal negotiators are on the Senate and House sides of the current Continuing Resolution (CR) talks: one set credits senators Gary Peters...
A House spending measure that would have averted the 2024 shutdown was defeated on December 19, 2024, by a 174–235 vote, with and thus directly contributing to the shutdown; Representative Chip Roy is...
The key finding: the Senate’s procedural vote to advance the 2025 continuing resolution (CR) passed , with the motion and , while eight Democrats/Independents joined Republicans to reach the 60‑vote t...
As of the most recent materials provided, : both U.S. House seats and both U.S. Senate seats are held by Democrats. Multiple contemporary summaries and compilations from early and mid‑2025 list Senato...
Democrats demand that any stopgap to reopen federal agencies include , alongside protections for Congress’s appropriations authority and targeted funding for member and judicial security; they have ci...
A narrow group of Senate Democrats—centered on eight moderates—are the pivotal votes being courted to reopen the government, and any deal to end the shutdown appears to hinge on about legislative foll...