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Maine Sen. Susan Collins, the top Senate GOP appropriator, won a commitment to take up a supplemental spending bill as part of her consent to a debt limit deal with defense spending caps.

Implications of the debt limit deal

By David Lerman, Peter Cohn and Lindsey McPherson
Posted June 2, 2023 at 2:51pm
Rep. Dan Bishop, R-N.C., and members of the House Freedom Caucus hold a news conference outside the Capitol to oppose the debt limit deal on Tuesday.

Meet the House members who voted against the debt limit deal 

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted June 1, 2023 at 10:48am
House Minority Whip Katherine M. Clark, D-Mass., conducts a news conference on the debt ceiling on Wednesday.

Debt limit rule adopted after Democrats ride to rescue

By Laura Weiss, Caitlin Reilly and Lindsey McPherson
Posted May 31, 2023 at 2:59pm, Updated at 7:10pm
Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.

Debt bill dissatisfaction threatens deeper GOP rift

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted May 31, 2023 at 10:07am
Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., left, confers with Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., at the House Rules Committee meeting on Tuesday.

Debt limit deal clears key hurdle; more land mines await

By David Lerman and Lindsey McPherson
Posted May 30, 2023 at 9:16pm
Speaker Kevin McCarthy is seen after talking with reporters about the debt ceiling negotiations outside the Capitol on Thursday.

Debt limit deal appears close as negotiators keep working

By Lindsey McPherson, Paul M. Krawzak, Laura Weiss, Aidan Quigley and Caitlin Reilly
Posted May 26, 2023 at 2:42pm, Updated at 7:19pm
President Joe Biden and Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., share a laugh in March, prior to the start of negotiations.

Leadership dynamics explain why there’s still no debt limit deal

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted May 25, 2023 at 5:04pm
Rep. Patrick T. McHenry, R-N.C., arrives at the Capitol during the last votes of the week on Thursday.

Parties moving closer on debt ceiling deal as talks drag on

By David Lerman, Aidan Quigley, Lindsey McPherson, Paul M. Krawzak and Caitlin Reilly
Posted May 25, 2023 at 2:05pm, Updated at 11:24pm
Rep. Pramila Jayapal speaks about the debt ceiling negotiations during the Congressional Progressive Caucus news conference in the Capitol on Wednesday.

Debt limit vibe back on the upswing after White House meeting

By Laura Weiss, Lindsey McPherson and Avery Roe
Posted May 24, 2023 at 7:14pm
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., talks with reporters about the debt ceiling negotiations in the Capitol Visitor Center on Tuesday.

Another day, another pause in debt ceiling negotiations

By Lindsey McPherson, Laura Weiss and Caitlin Reilly
Posted May 23, 2023 at 7:52pm, Updated May 24, 2023 at 5:10am
Reps. Garret Graves, R-La., left, and Patrick T. McHenry, R-N.C., speak to reporters about debt ceiling negotiations as they leave the House Republicans’ conference meeting at the Capitol Hill Club in Washington on Tuesday, May 23, 2023.

Wide gulf between debt limit negotiators as time grows short

By Caitlin Reilly and Lindsey McPherson
Posted May 23, 2023 at 2:16pm, Updated at 5:01pm
Rep. Patrick T. McHenry, R-N.C., leaves a meeting in the speaker’s suite in the Capitol on Monday.

McCarthy: No deal yet, but debt limit meeting ‘productive’

By Lindsey McPherson and Laura Weiss
Posted May 22, 2023 at 8:18pm
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, left, and Speaker Kevin McCarthy attend the portrait unveiling for former Speaker Paul D. Ryan, R-Wis., in Statuary Hall in the Capitol on Wednesday.

Contours of debt limit deal start to take shape

By David Lerman, Lindsey McPherson and Aidan Quigley
Posted May 18, 2023 at 3:29pm
Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., leaves the Capitol last Thursday.

House votes to refer Santos matter to Ethics panel

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted May 17, 2023 at 6:17pm
Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., conducts a news conference with House and Senate Republicans on the west terrace of the Capitol on Wednesday.

Party leaders optimistic as debt limit negotiators get to work

By Aidan Quigley, Lindsey McPherson and Caitlin Reilly
Posted May 17, 2023 at 4:23pm
Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell address the media after a meeting with President Joe Biden on the debt ceiling at the White House on Tuesday.

Debt limit talks pared down to proxies for Biden, McCarthy

By Laura Weiss, Lindsey McPherson and Aidan Quigley
Posted May 16, 2023 at 6:39pm
Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., pictured leaving the Capitol last week a day after he was indicted on 13 federal criminal charges, faces an expulsion vote.

McCarthy parries move on Santos expulsion by invoking Ethics Committee

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted May 16, 2023 at 3:55pm, Updated at 5:44pm
Senate Minority Whip John Thune says senators are prepared for 'all kinds' of potential scenarios.

Recess starting to feel distant as debt limit deadline nears

By Laura Weiss, Lindsey McPherson and Aidan Quigley
Posted May 16, 2023 at 2:58pm
Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced several changes to his staff on Friday.

Kevin McCarthy’s chief of staff Dan Meyer to retire in June

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted May 12, 2023 at 4:16pm
Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., conducts a vote Thursday on the Republican border security package.

House-passed border bill may spark bipartisan immigration talks

By Suzanne Monyak and Lindsey McPherson
Posted May 11, 2023 at 7:03pm
Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., was among the holdouts Wednesday on a sweeping GOP border security package.

House GOP makes last-minute tweaks to border security bill

By Lindsey McPherson and Suzanne Monyak
Posted May 10, 2023 at 8:08pm
Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, says a China competition package Democrats want to assemble can be bipartisan if they keep it targeted and avoid letting it become "some sort of omnibus Christmas bill."

Republicans leery of Democrats’ China competition plan

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted May 4, 2023 at 6:02pm
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., conducts a news conference with Democratic committee chairs on the legislative package to combat the Chinese government and bolster U.S. competitiveness in the Capitol on Wednesday.

Senate Democrats announce sweeping effort to outcompete China

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted May 3, 2023 at 5:09pm
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks during the Senate Republicans’ news conference in the Capitol on Tuesday.

Senate, for now, defers to Biden and McCarthy on debt talks

By Laura Weiss, Lindsey McPherson, Aidan Quigley and Caitlin Reilly
Posted May 2, 2023 at 5:50pm
Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen testifies during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on March 16, 2023.

Yellen to lawmakers: Debt limit must be raised by June

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted May 1, 2023 at 4:58pm
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., vowed to pursue a "clean" debt limit increase that rejects GOP spending cuts.

Search for debt limit compromise

By David Lerman, Lindsey McPherson and Laura Weiss
Posted April 28, 2023 at 2:22pm
Rep. Steny H. Hoyer, D-Md., the former No. 2 House Democrat, says at minimum "rational" spending limits would have to be on the table.

Common ground on the debt limit? Here’s what to look for

By Lindsey McPherson, Laura Weiss, David Lerman and Aidan Quigley
Posted April 28, 2023 at 11:48am
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., returns to his office after a vote on Wednesday.

House passes $1.5 trillion debt limit increase, spending cuts

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted April 26, 2023 at 5:49pm, Updated at 6:50pm
Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., is seen in the Capitol on April 20. He predicted a passage vote will happen later on Wednesday.

House GOP leaders forge ahead with debt limit vote

By Aidan Quigley, Laura Weiss and Lindsey McPherson
Posted April 26, 2023 at 1:06pm
House Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo., right, confers with an aide before the start of the House Rules Committee meeting on the debt limit bill on Tuesday.

GOP leaders try to woo holdouts ahead of debt limit vote

By Lindsey McPherson and Laura Weiss
Posted April 25, 2023 at 9:34pm
Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., says she plans to vote against her party’s debt limit package unless House leaders agree to changes.

Energy tax credits a big test for GOP vote counters on debt bill

By Laura Weiss and Lindsey McPherson
Posted April 25, 2023 at 5:04pm
Rep. Young Kim, R-Calif., is among those backing the debt limit package despite Democrats' attacks.

Biden district Republicans hold their fire on debt ceiling bill

By Lindsey McPherson, Aidan Quigley and Laura Weiss
Posted April 24, 2023 at 7:03pm, Updated April 25, 2023 at 9:27am
Speaker Kevin McCarthy speaks to reporters in Statuary Hall in the Capitol after announcing his debt limit increase plan on the House floor on Wednesday.

Republicans urge tweaks to House debt limit bill ahead of vote

By Aidan Quigley, Lindsey McPherson and Laura Weiss
Posted April 20, 2023 at 4:38pm
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer is seen at a news conference after the Senate luncheons in the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday.

Firefighter grants pass Senate after amendment agreement

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted April 20, 2023 at 3:35pm
Speaker Kevin McCarthy has spent months trying to stitch together a plan his slim majority can support.

Debt limit bill in hand, McCarthy eyes vote next week

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted April 19, 2023 at 4:46pm, Updated at 6:11pm
House Majority Whip Tom Emmer has the thankless job of corralling the votes from a fractious GOP conference.

Climate credits, IRS funds snarl GOP debt limit talks

By Lindsey McPherson, Laura Weiss and Aidan Quigley
Posted April 18, 2023 at 2:19pm, Updated at 6:46pm
Speaker Kevin McCarthy has a tough job ahead wrangling votes in his chamber.

McCarthy blasts Biden, Democrats over debt limit

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted April 17, 2023 at 12:12pm, Updated at 7:34pm
Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., is trying to unite his party around a bill pairing a debt limit increase with spending constraints. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

The politics of raising the debt limit

By David Lerman, Peter Cohn and Lindsey McPherson
Posted April 14, 2023 at 4:11pm
Rep. Jared Golden finishes the ACLI Capital Challenge 3 Mile Team Race in Anacostia Park on Sept. 29, 2021.

Centrist Maine Democrat floats compromise debt limit plan

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted April 14, 2023 at 3:58pm
Rep. Stephanie Bice, R-Okla., co-chair of Main Street Caucus in her Rayburn Building office on March 22, 2023.

GOP debt limit plans begin to take shape in House

By Lindsey McPherson, Paul M. Krawzak and Aidan Quigley
Posted April 13, 2023 at 5:10pm
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., is seen in the Capitol subway on Feb. 15.

Feinstein to temporarily step down from Judiciary Committee after calls to resign

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted April 12, 2023 at 6:56pm, Updated at 9:13pm
Sen. John Fetterman arrives for a classified briefing in the Senate on Feb. 14, the day before he checked into Walter Reed to be treated for depression. Fetterman was discharged Friday and returned home to Pennsylvania.

Fetterman discharged from Walter Reed, depression in remission

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted March 31, 2023 at 6:29pm
Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., pressed President Joe Biden to resume debt limit talks while pushing for $4 trillion in deficit reduction over a decade.

Debt limit pressure tactics

By David Lerman, Lindsey McPherson and Paul M. Krawzak
Posted March 31, 2023 at 2:21pm
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Thursday that Republicans are "very close" to coalescing around a debt limit bill that would include fiscal policy changes he floated to President Joe Biden.

House will move debt limit bill if Biden won’t negotiate

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted March 30, 2023 at 6:21pm
House Budget Chairman Jodey C. Arrington, R-Texas, right, and ranking member Rep. Brendan F. Boyle, D-Pa., during a committee meeting last month.

Budget blueprint may take a back seat to debt limit in House

By David Lerman and Lindsey McPherson
Posted March 29, 2023 at 6:47pm
President Joe Biden

Biden rejects McCarthy’s call for meeting without a GOP budget

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted March 29, 2023 at 7:05am
Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chairman Gary Peters, D-Mich., right, and ranking member Rand Paul, R-Ky., are shown at the panel's markup of the firefighter bill on March 15.

Paul eyes floor votes on firefighter bill after committee spat

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted March 28, 2023 at 8:25pm
Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., conducts a news conference in the Capitol on March 24.

McCarthy to Biden on debt limit: ‘You are on the clock’

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted March 28, 2023 at 10:01am, Updated at 12:41pm
"The main goal is to lower energy prices," House Natural Resources Chairman Bruce Westerman, R-Ark., said in a recent interview. "But there's some benefits that come along with that, like energy security and also national security. And in the process of that, you get economic growth in the U.S."

House GOP’s energy bill hitting the floor amid market volatility

By Lindsey McPherson and Benjamin J. Hulac
Posted March 27, 2023 at 11:23am
House Budget Chairman Jodey C. Arrington, center, says a Republican budget will be delayed as the party pushes for debt limit talks.

Spending cuts standoff

By David Lerman, Lindsey McPherson and Aidan Quigley
Posted March 24, 2023 at 2:38pm
House Budget Chairman Jodey C. Arrington, R-Texas, speaks during a committee meeting on Feb. 9.

Chicken-or-egg game is on as Congress barrels toward debt limit

By David Lerman and Lindsey McPherson
Posted March 22, 2023 at 5:30am, Updated at 1:42pm
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., says Republicans want all of HR 1 enacted.

House Republican leaders work to fuse support for energy package

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted March 21, 2023 at 5:45pm
House Budget Chairman Jodey Arrington, R-Texas.

Balanced budget takes back seat to paring spending to ’22 levels at GOP retreat

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted March 20, 2023 at 3:25pm
Speaker Kevin McCarthy addresses reporters at House Republicans' annual issues conference.

McCarthy urges against protests, violence if Trump is indicted

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted March 19, 2023 at 9:10pm
Pat Schroeder, D-Colo., discusses her retirement at a news conference in the House studio in 1995.

Pat Schroeder, first woman on House Armed Services, dies at 82

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted March 14, 2023 at 4:02pm
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., conducts a news conference in the Capitol on March 7, the day before he tripped and fell at a dinner event.

McConnell released from hospital, headed to inpatient physical therapy

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted March 13, 2023 at 5:49pm
Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., speaks during the Freedom Caucus news conference on the debt limit in the Capitol on Friday, March 10, 2023.

Freedom Caucus lays out debt limit, spending demands

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted March 10, 2023 at 12:37pm
President Joe Biden speaks during the International Association of Fire Fighters 2023 Legislative Conference at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill on Monday.

Debt limit clouds outlook as Biden budget set to hit Thursday

By Aidan Quigley, Lindsey McPherson and Laura Weiss
Posted March 9, 2023 at 5:00am
President Joe Biden greets Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., before delivering the State of the Union address on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023.

CBO director to brief House members ahead of budget release

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted March 6, 2023 at 2:13pm
Republican Main Street Caucus Chair Dusty Johnson, R-S.D., pictured talking to Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., right, during the January speaker election, said his 70-member group plans to be involved in developing every major and must-pass bill.

Main Street Caucus eyes ‘pragmatic’ conservative wins

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted February 15, 2023 at 1:13pm
President Joe Biden delivers his State of the Union address to Congress on Tuesday.

Even Biden’s ‘unity’ agenda could be tough going

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted February 8, 2023 at 5:00am
Speaker Kevin McCarthy holds a news conference in National Statuary Hall in the Capitol on Feb. 2.

McCarthy, House Republicans reframe debt limit strategy

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted February 6, 2023 at 7:01pm
Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., talks to reporters after meeting with President Joe Biden at the White House on Wednesday.

Biden, McCarthy make ‘no promises’ on debt, will keep talking

By Lindsey McPherson and Aidan Quigley
Posted February 1, 2023 at 6:12pm
Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., is seen in the Capitol on Thursday, Jan. 12.

GOP Rep. Santos recuses himself from committees

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted January 31, 2023 at 11:21am
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., left, and DSCC Chair Gary Peters, D-Mich., hold a news conference in the Capitol on Dec. 7, 2022, to discuss Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock’s Georgia runoff win.

DSCC Chair Peters tapped for plum Senate Appropriations seat

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted January 26, 2023 at 4:29pm
Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., stand outside U.S. Supreme Court in April when he was state attorney general and attended oral arguments in the Biden v. Texas case.

Schmitt denied waiver to serve on Senate Judiciary

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted January 25, 2023 at 3:58pm
No. 2 Senate Republican, John Thune of South Dakota, expects an organizing holdup to be resolved this week.

Senate organizing resolutions on hold over GOP waiver issue

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted January 24, 2023 at 4:45pm, Updated at 6:18pm
House Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., participates in the House Democrats’ press conference following their caucus meeting in the Capitol on Jan. 10.

Democrats await key decisions on House Appropriations seats

By Lindsey McPherson, Aidan Quigley and Laura Weiss
Posted January 24, 2023 at 5:30am
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., is pushing for a bipartisan deal to raise the debt limit.

Two fiscal brawls ahead

By David Lerman, Lindsey McPherson, Paul M. Krawzak and Caroline Coudriet
Posted January 20, 2023 at 2:39pm
Sen. Joe Manchin III says he wants to do something bipartisan on the debt limit that would help improve the nation’s debt trajectory, as Republicans are demanding.

Manchin floats fiscal commissions for debt limit bill

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted January 18, 2023 at 6:21pm
Rep. Dan Kildee, D-Mich., is seen on the floor during speaker election votes on Jan. 6.

Parties dig in for protracted fight over debt ceiling

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted January 17, 2023 at 6:11pm
Speaker Kevin McCarthy conducts a news conference in the Capitol’s Statuary Hall on Thursday.

McCarthy seeks to calm debt ceiling waters

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted January 12, 2023 at 1:07pm
Rep. Jodey C. Arrington, R-Texas, is seen Monday outside the House Republican Steering Committee meeting to select committee chairs in the Capitol.

Rep. Arrington gets Steering Committee nod for House Budget gavel

By Paul M. Krawzak and Lindsey McPherson
Posted January 9, 2023 at 9:37pm
Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, fears the new rules package could bless steep cuts in defense programs.

House adopts rules package for the 118th Congress

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted January 9, 2023 at 6:54pm
Republican leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., gives a thumbs up after colleagues who had opposed him for speaker switched their votes to support him on Friday afternoon, the start of a shift that led to his election as speaker.

McCarthy wins speaker election, finally

By Lindsey McPherson, Laura Weiss and Caitlin Reilly
Posted January 7, 2023 at 12:34am, Updated at 1:38am
Forida Republican Matt Gaetz gestures as Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy stands nearby during the 14th ballot for speaker on Friday.

Expecting win, McCarthy comes up short again in late-night vote

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted January 6, 2023 at 11:16pm, Updated January 7, 2023 at 12:49am
House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., left, speaks with Georgia Republican Andrew Clyde on Thursday. Clyde, who had been opposed all week, voted for McCarthy to be speaker on Friday.

McCarthy buys time as he tries to lock down speaker votes

By Lindsey McPherson, Aidan Quigley, Caitlin Reilly, Laura Weiss and Paul M. Krawzak
Posted January 6, 2023 at 1:59pm, Updated at 4:52pm
A staffer watches C-SPAN on a television monitor in Statuary Hall during the 10th attempt in the House to elect a speaker in the Capitol on Thursday.

McCarthy, holdouts discussing possible deal for speaker’s gavel

By Laura Weiss, Caitlin Reilly, Lindsey McPherson and Jim Saksa
Posted January 5, 2023 at 11:06pm
North Carolina Republican Dan Bishop nominates Florida's Byron Donalds for speaker on Thursday. Florida Republican Matt Gaetz applauds.

Another day, similar result: Adjournment with no speaker

By Aidan Quigley, Lindsey McPherson, Niels Lesniewski, Mark Satter and Jessie Hellmann
Posted January 5, 2023 at 1:35pm, Updated at 8:42pm
Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., center, is seen on the House floor during a vote Wednesday in which House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., did not receive enough votes to become Speaker of the House.

Late-night talks yield no breakthrough in speaker battle

By Lindsey McPherson, Laura Weiss and Caitlin Reilly
Posted January 5, 2023 at 12:00am, Updated at 3:54pm
Wisconsin Republican Mike Gallagher nominates Kevin McCarthy to be speaker Wednesday as the House resumed its attempt to pick a leader of the Republican majority in the 118th Congress.

House resumes speaker votes with new alternative, similar result

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted January 4, 2023 at 1:31pm, Updated at 8:43pm
House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., arrives at the Capitol ahead of a floor vote for speaker on Wednesday.

Day Two of speaker drama begins with no end in sight

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted January 4, 2023 at 11:05am
Votes for speaker of the House are tallied after the first round of voting in the House chamber on Tuesday. House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., did not secure the 218 votes he needed.

McCarthy opponents unmoved as speaker election drags on

By Lindsey McPherson, Laura Weiss, Caitlin Reilly and Aidan Quigley
Posted January 3, 2023 at 4:01pm, Updated January 4, 2023 at 12:06am
House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy sits as colleagues stand around him applauding after he was nominated for speaker in the 118th Congress.

Opponents deny McCarthy speaker’s gavel on first vote

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted January 3, 2023 at 2:11pm
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., made some concessions to his detractors in the House rules package released late Sunday. But the changes have not yet secured him enough votes to be elected speaker on Tuesday.

McCarthy releases House rules package, still short speaker votes

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted January 2, 2023 at 11:02am
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., pictured at a Dec. 14 news conference, is struggling to secure the votes needed to be elected speaker.

Speaker race headed toward dramatic floor election

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted December 30, 2022 at 6:27pm
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., opposed the omnibus and will be key to any spending deal in the next Congress.

Next year’s fiscal outlook

By David Lerman, Lindsey McPherson, Paul M. Krawzak, Laura Weiss and Aidan Quigley
Posted December 27, 2022 at 3:13pm
House Appropriations ranking member Kay Granger, R-Texas, opposed the bill, citing "excess" nondefense spending.

House clears omnibus package as end nears for 117th Congress

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted December 23, 2022 at 1:58pm
Sen. John Cornyn said Tuesday he believed his colleagues were coalescing behind a plan to get amendment votes in exchange for speeding up the process.

Senate lurches toward conclusion on massive spending package

By Lindsey McPherson, David Lerman and Aidan Quigley
Posted December 20, 2022 at 7:03pm
Lawmakers released the text of a $1.7 trillion omnibus spending package for fiscal 2023.

Both parties claim wins in massive omnibus spending bill

By Lindsey McPherson and Aidan Quigley
Posted December 20, 2022 at 4:48am
Senate Appropriations Chairman Patrick J. Leahy, D-Vt., was a lead negotiator on the massive bill to fund the federal government in fiscal 2023.

Omnibus text delayed over FBI headquarters issue

By Lindsey McPherson and Aidan Quigley
Posted December 19, 2022 at 7:17pm, Updated at 9:00pm
House Appropriations ranking member Kay Granger, R-Texas, speaks during a House GOP news conference on government funding on Wednesday.

Omnibus showdown

By David Lerman, Lindsey McPherson, Aidan Quigley and Laura Weiss
Posted December 16, 2022 at 1:25pm
Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., is trying to wrap up spending bills on her party's watch before Republicans take control of the House next year.

One-week stopgap bill clears as appropriators work to close out omnibus

By Lindsey McPherson, Aidan Quigley, David Lerman and Paul M. Krawzak
Posted December 15, 2022 at 1:31pm, Updated at 9:49pm
Reps. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., right, and Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., talk before the House Judiciary Committee hearing on legislative responses to deter prosecutorial abuse of power on June 30, 2021.

Anti-McCarthy group vows not to be picked off one-by-one

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted December 14, 2022 at 7:08pm
Sen. Rand Paul said if the House can pass 12 separate spending bills, his goal is to get 41 Republicans — enough to mount a successful filibuster — to commit to voting on the individual bills and promising not to support an omnibus.

GOP seeks unity on spending restraints under divided government

By Lindsey McPherson and Aidan Quigley
Posted December 14, 2022 at 6:06pm
House Appropriations Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., speaks before HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra testified during a budget hearing on Thursday, March 31, 2022.

Deal close on fiscal 2023 spending framework as stopgap prepped

By Aidan Quigley and Lindsey McPherson
Posted December 13, 2022 at 1:49pm, Updated at 5:33pm
Rep. Bill Foster, D-Ill., leaves the House Democrats’ caucus meeting in the Capitol ion Nov. 15.

House Democrats reject committee term limit proposal

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted December 13, 2022 at 1:37pm
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., is facing a Friday deadline to avoid a partial government shutdown.

Lawmakers said to be on verge of a bipartisan omnibus agreement

By Aidan Quigley and Lindsey McPherson
Posted December 12, 2022 at 4:01pm, Updated at 8:45pm
Senate Appropriations Chairman Patrick J. Leahy says the omnibus bill he plans to introduce would fund defense at the level Republicans want and increase nondefense spending enough “to stave off inflation and serve the American people.”

Parties play chicken on omnibus as shutdown deadline approaches

By Aidan Quigley, Lindsey McPherson and David Lerman
Posted December 8, 2022 at 4:39pm
Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Va., speaks at an early voting rally in Woodbridge, Va., on Sept. 24.

Spanberger picked for Democrats’ ‘battleground’ leadership post

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted December 6, 2022 at 5:16pm