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Despite early protestations against a sequester many members voted for, congressional Republicans are preparing to go past a March 1 deadline that would trigger across-the-board spending cuts without agreeing
Senators are poised to pass a domestic violence law rewrite next week without a clear endgame on tribal court provisions, the central sticking point in negotiations with the House.
As leaders in Washington face a battle over massive spending cuts, they should remember that the outside world continues to turn — and Iranian nuclear centrifuges continue to spin.
Bill Owens, D-N.Y., and Aaron Schock, R-Ill., but said it would do so without forming a formal investigative subcommittee.
The current Republican majority in the House of Representatives, which owes its existence to the results of the 2010 elections, should not obscure what is happening around the country: The party
“Let your conversation be without malice or envy … and in causes of passion admit reason to govern,” was one portion Hensarling read to panel members.
In negotiations ahead of the New Year’s Day fiscal cliff, President Barack Obama initially said any big year-end budget deal should include new money for transportation projects.
lawmakers in ethics proceedings said in a letter to the independent Office of Congressional Ethics on Monday that its recent rules changes rolled back important protections for their clients and that there should
As president pro tem, Leahy is now involved in more leadership meetings than ever before, and the success of immigration and gun control is not without leadership influence.
Far too much power is vested in the sole CFPB director without any meaningful checks and balances,” the senators wrote in Friday’s letter.
Carney also defended Hagel’s support for a world without nuclear weapons, noting that the same sentiment has been expressed by Presidents John F.
The group’s agenda, he said, should offer opportunities to work with both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue because it’s in the administration’s and lawmakers’ interest to spur the economy.
Senior Senate Republicans have panned Reid’s reliance on a provision in Senate rules that allows him to get bills placed directly on the Senate’s calendar of business without committee markups.
For four years, the United States has been without this most important of plans. And look where we’ve ended up.
But no comprehensive immigration changes are likely to pass Congress without the healthy support of House Republicans.
While philosophical and political disagreements prevent Congress from cutting certain programs, all Americans can agree dollars spent should go where the law dictates and nowhere else.
The Hispanic Leadership Network, affiliated with the American Action Network, says in its emailed memo that conservatives should avoid the “negative tone and harsh rhetoric” that has hurt them in
While the package falls far short of what a group of more liberal Democratic senators had sought, it should accomplish one of Reid’s stated goals: allowing business to progress more quickly.
“It’s no secret that Paul Ryan and I are good friends,” Cooper told CQ Roll Call, “and he remembered me having mentioned this to him as a good reform that both parties should be able to get behind
after the murder of 20 first-graders in Newtown, Conn., Heitkamp said the gun- violence-prevention proposals being floated by the White House were “way in extreme of what I think is necessary or even should