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Obama, facing a potential economic and political catastrophe heading into his re-election, blinked and handed Boehner north of $2 trillion in spending cuts over a decade, including nearly $1 trillion in
By Thomas McKinless [jwp-video n=”1″] Republicans aren’t the only ones who might risk a government shutdown to get what they want.
[jwp-video n=”1″] The GOP has agreed to add $38 billion in defense spending to those caps but has expressed no interest in acceding to congressional Democrats’ interest in an additional $37
That sets up the obvious need to move a continuing resolution before Oct. 1, to keep discretionary funding rolling.
[jwp-video n=”1″] Despite a three-day workweek, the Senate still found time to count on one hand, draw stick figures and drink lots of water.
Dennis and Emma Dumain and Tamar Hallerman [jwp-video n=”1″] Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell dismissed the growing talk that the fight over Planned Parenthood might result
By JM Rieger and Niels Lesniewski [jwp-video n=”1″] Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell reiterated at his weekly news conference Tuesday the government would not shut down at the
By JM Rieger and Niels Lesniewski [jwp-video n=”1″] Senate Democrats are warning a new shutdown showdown looms in September, even as Majority Leader Mitch McConnell reiterated there
[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 Matt Fuller [jwp-video n=”1″] With 16 scheduled legislative days before government funding runs out, Speaker John A.
[jwp-video n=”1″] One day after Speaker John A.
White House Affirms Defense Spending Veto Threat [jwp-video n=”1″] Here’s the rush CQ Roll Call transcript of today’s briefing of Earnest responding to Bloomberg BNA reporter Cheryl Bolen
Dennis [jwp-video n=”1″] Speaker John A.
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 1:28 p.m. | Senate Democrats want Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to embrace lessons of the budget vote-a-rama that took place just before recess.
taking stock of what the 15-plus hours of nonbinding votes on dozens of amendments said about the 2016 presidential election, how vulnerable senators voted and what issues might now come to the fore. 1.
Senate Ditches Obama Budget; Plan Earns Only 1 'Yes' -
Separate from the Obama budget, Van Hollen says the House Democratic Caucus plan will feature a proposal regarding the tax treatment of performance bonuses paid to corporate executives that exceed $1
Thus starts a budget dance that, if past is prologue, won’t get resolved until some time after the Oct. 1 start of the next fiscal year.
does a victory lap on the slowing growth in health care costs, which the administration attributes in part to provisions in the Affordable Care Act, and on the deep reductions in the deficit from the $1