-
ABC7 News
-
Accuweather
-
Video & Photos
-
ABC7 Extras
-
Marketplace
Explore abc7news.com Stories
Recent "congress" Stories, Video and Galleries
-
-
President Barack Obama has signed a measure averting default on the national debt and ending a partial government shutdown.
-
-
A vote in the House on a new Republican plan to reopen the government and avert a financial default has now been postponed.
-
-
The Senate's top two leaders raced to reach an agreement Monday that could head off a first-ever U.S. Treasury default.
-
-
The Senate's top two leaders raced to reach an agreement Monday that could head off a first-ever U.S. Treasury default.
-
-
Senate Republicans and Democrats remain at an impasse over spending in their struggle to end a partial government shutdown.
-
-
A group of veterans protested outside the White House, over the closure of the World War II Memorial during the shutdown.
-
-
Senate leaders have taken the helm in the search for a deal to end the partial government shutdown and avert a federal default.
-
San Francisco's iconic Cliff House restaurant reopened Saturday despite the federal government shutdown.
-
-
The Senate has rejected a Democratic effort to extend the government's ability to borrow money through next year.
-
-
The Senate has rejected a Democratic effort to extend the government's ability to borrow money through next year.
-
-
Mitch McConnell says GOP lawmakers are working on trying to come up with a solution to end the partial government shutdown.
-
-
Starbucks says it will ask customers and businesses to sign a petition calling for an end to the partial government shutdown.
-
-
Pres. Obama and Republican leaders reached no specific determination on how to end the partial government shutdown.
-
-
The Obama administration says a charity will pick up the costs of suspended death benefits payments for the families of fallen troops.
-
-
The federal government shutdown continues to affect all sorts of services in the Bay Area, leaving a lot of people disappointed.
-
-
The Obama administration says a charity will pick up the costs of suspended death benefits payments for the families of fallen troops.
-
-
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz wants lawmakers to come together to resolve their political gridlock -- so he's giving away free coffee.
-
-
Gold Star Moms are outraged the death gratuity funds for military families is frozen due to the government shutdown.
-
-
President Obama says he's fighting the budget battle because "we can't make extortion routine as part of our democracy."
-
-
Senate Democrats intend to introduce legislation by mid-week to raise the nation's debt limit without the unrelated conditions.
-
A U.N. official says inspectors have begun destroying Syria's stockpile of chemical weapons and the machinery used to create it.
-
-
House Speaker Boehner says he doesn't know when the shutdown will end and says it's up to Pres. Obama to start negotiations.
-
-
The sisters of a woman fatally shot after trying to ram her car through a White House barrier say police should not have killed her.
-
-
The sisters of a woman fatally shot after trying to ram her car through a White House barrier say police should not have killed her.
-
-
The House has passed a bill to give 800,000 furloughed federal workers retroactive pay once the government reopens.
-
-
The House has passed a bill to give 800,000 furloughed federal workers retroactive pay once the government reopens.
-
-
The District of Columbia's police chief says the suspect who led police on a chase from the White House to the Capitol is dead.
-
-
A woman fatally shot by police after a chase when she tried to breach the White House suffered from depression.
-
-
Both sides are making it clear Friday that they take the partial shutdown of the federal government seriously.
-
-
Both sides are making it clear Friday that they take the partial shutdown of the federal government seriously.
-
-
The District of Columbia's police chief says the suspect who led police on a chase from the White House to the Capitol is dead.
-
-
President Barack Obama says House Speaker John Boehner is the only thing standing in the way of reopening the federal government.
-
-
Confusion persists in the second day of the federal government shutdown. In the Bay Area, the impact is being felt by taxpayers and even job-hunters.
-
-
Several government recruiters were missing from a South Bay job fair because of the government shutdown.
-
-
President Barack Obama summoned congressional leaders to the White House on Wednesday.
-
-
Many are feeling the pinch as the federal government shutdown continues into a second day.
-
-
Federal workers in San Jose and USGS geologists in Menlo Park were told to go home during the government shutdown.
-
-
Pres. Obama says Republicans have shut down the government over an "ideological crusade" against his health care law.
-
-
President Barack Obama says House Republicans have shut down the federal government over an "ideological crusade."
-
-
Congress has missed the deadline for averting the first partial government shutdown in 17 years.
-
-
Hours before a threatened government shutdown, the Senate has the next move Monday on must-do budget legislation.
-
-
If no compromise can be reached by midnight, Americans would soon see the impact of a government shutdown.
-
-
Congress is running out of time to agree on a bill to keep the government running.
-
-
Officials say the House approval of a delay in Obama's health care law does nothing but push the government closer to a shutdown.
-
-
The House plans to approve a bill that changes parts of the Affordable Care Act. But it isn't what Pres. Obama or Democrats want.
-
-
The Democratic-run Senate has approved legislation aimed at preventing a Tuesday federal shutdown.
-
-
Tea party conservative Sen. Ted Cruz ended his all-night talkathon to dismantle President Barack Obama's health care law.
-
-
President Barack Obama is appealing to the public anew to pressure Congress to stop undermining his health care law.
-
-
Marathon negotiations between the U.S. and Russia have produced an agreement on destroying Syria's chemical weapons stockpile.
-
-
Obama says he's hopeful negotiations Secretary of State John Kerry is having over the future of Syria's chemical weapons "bear fruit."
-
Most Popular
-
Most Viewed StoriesMost Viewed Photos
