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Expect a ‘prolonged fight’ over spending caps
“I do think this is going to be a prolonged fight,” said Romina Boccia, director of the Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget at the Heritage Foundation.
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Congress · 116th Congress
The dead earmarks society
Congress are very frustrated — we saw record numbers of them quit last year,” said Kevin Kosar, a leader of the nonpartisan Legislative Branch Capacity Working Group and vice president of policy at the R
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Hill Leaders Await Trump Reaction to Spending Deal
Mark Meadows, R-N.C., tweeted Monday night. Meadows called on Trump in a subsequent tweet Tuesday to “take executive action” to fund a wall, perhaps by declaring a border emergency.
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Negotiators unlikely to meet self-imposed Monday shutdown deal deadline
Shelby, R-Ala., and ranking member Patrick J. Leahy, D-Vt., and House Appropriations Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey, D- N.Y. and ranking member Kay Granger, R-Texas — would yield an immediate breakthrough.
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Appropriators attempt to revive talks Monday as Friday shutdown deadline looms
Shelby, R-Ala., and ranking member Patrick J. Leahy, D-Vt., and House Appropriations Chairwoman Nita M.
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Border, homeland security deal could come over weekend
Kay Granger, R-Texas, the ranking Republican on the House Appropriations Committee. While conferees want a bill drafted by Monday, she said, “We still have some work to do.” Rep. Steven M.
Congress · 116th Congress
Top Democrats wary of attaching debt limit to wrap-up spending measure
Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., suggested attaching the debt limit and possibly a two-year budget caps agreement in an interview with CNN earlier Tuesday.
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Senate GOP turns to time-honored budget tradition to fund wall
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., had previously said he wouldn’t bring legislation to the floor that didn’t have Trump’s support.
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Disaster aid bill could grow, block diversion of funds to wall
recent calamities such as hurricanes that hit Florida and the Carolinas, wildfires that ravaged California and typhoons that struck island territories in the Pacific, House Appropriations Chairwoman Nita M.
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New bipartisan Senate group facing uphill climb in bid to end shutdown
Thom Tillis, R-N.C., was part of a GOP group last week discussing a broader set of border and immigration policy proposals that ultimately went nowhere.
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Lawmakers Want Trump’s Tax Returns, but Won’t Release Their Own
Kevin Yoder, R-Kan., has criticized Trump — and his colleagues — for not releasing tax returns.
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A Long History of Attacks on Members of Congress
Edward M. Kennedy’s Capitol Hill office. She was wrestled to the ground by a Secret Service agent.Militants tried to hijack an El Al plane in Istanbul, Turkey.