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[jwp-video n=”1″] House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that recent calls to defund Planned Parenthood are a “distraction” with Congress set to return in September, only weeks
By JM Rieger and Matthew Fleming [jwp-video n=”1″] Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid on Tuesday shot down the idea Democrats would help Republicans clear a 60-vote threshold to advance
By JM Rieger and Matt Fuller [jwp-video n=”1″] With 16 scheduled legislative days before government funding runs out, Speaker John A.
By JM Rieger and Matt Fuller [jwp-video n=”1″] Following the release of a controversial hidden-camera video, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi doesn’t buy the need to look into Planned
Boehner: CR Needed to Avoid Government Shutdown [jwp-video n=”1″] Still, Boehner and other Republicans largely rejected the reality of a CR
Updated 1 p.m. | Don’t expect any more appropriations bills to make it through the House chamber any time soon. Not until Republicans and Democrats work out issues on the Confederate flag.
[jwp-video n=”1″] With an appropriations measure for containing guidelines for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention set to hit the House floor next month, Speaker John A.
[jwp-video n=”1″] McCain, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, has a bit of an advantage over the others in that his chairmanship gives him a larger staff, some of whom are dedicated
[jwp-video n=”1″] Responding to a question about Democrats’ strategy to block a Republican appropriation measure Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid quickly pivoted to a full-out
[jwp-video n=”1″] State Department Spokeswoman Marie Harf pushed back on suggestions that “punishment” from Congress would help the release of emails from the Department concerning the
Johnson, who had a string of amendments at the very end of the markup, took a little break around 1:30 a.m. to freshen up.
While California is in desperate need of additional water supply, the April 1 snowpack measurements were lower than ever before (5 percent of historic average).
Updated 1:02 p.m. | House fiscal conservatives took the upper hand — for the moment — Thursday in their struggle with Republican defense hawks for control of the GOP’s 2016 federal budget proposal.
Instead of undermining him, it would likely affirm that Boehner, and only Boehner — the man who has held the No. 1 spot in the conference since 2007 — can muster 218 votes for speaker.
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Menendez, D-N.J., would allow for tougher sanctions in the event talks about the Iranian nuclear program are not successful, providing additional tools to strengthen the U.S. negotiation position in the P5+1
union retirement plans to cut pensions — Moved to protect medical marijuana by prohibiting federal agencies from spending money to interfere with state laws — Gave most federal workers a 1
The Senate gaveled into session at noon Saturday, with senators planning to work all the way until 1 a.m.
“No. 1 of which is Sen. Reid can continue to move nominations through as long as we are here.” Sen.