Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) dodged questions on whether Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) should step aside as party leader but acknowledged that the calls for her to challenge him for his seat in the Senate is real.

The only grandson of John F. Kennedy, Jack Schlossberg, is vying to become the latest Kennedy family scion to enter Congress.

"“I think what is so important for folks to understand is that this problem is bigger than one person, and it actually is bigger than the minority leader in the Senate."

For 40 days, Senator Chuck Schumer kept his caucus unified. But an end approached without an extension of expiring health insurance subsidies that Democrats had demanded.

New York’s “Better Bottle Bill” was designed to save small businesses, protect recycling jobs, and boost environmental efforts across the state. However, months after advocates urged lawmakers to act,

The Senate is scheduled on Monday to reconvene at 11 a.m. ET to continue working toward ending the federal government shutdown, which is now in its 41st day. There are still some procedural measures necessary for the Senate to pass a deal on the government shutdown and send it for potential approval in the Republican-controlled House.

The Senate, with the help of Democratic defectors, passed a bill to end the longest government shutdown without the health insurance subsidies Democrats long demanded. The earliest the House will vote is Wednesday.