Hill Staff Bracing for Possible Shutdown
In a climate where Congress and the president are attempting to slash federal budgets and are freezing federal workers’ pay, employees said they are concerned that they will simply be furloughed without
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In a climate where Congress and the president are attempting to slash federal budgets and are freezing federal workers’ pay, employees said they are concerned that they will simply be furloughed without
“But Bellavia seems determined to run a third-party line, with or without tea party support.” Corwin has been accumulating endorsements from other conservatives.
House Republican leaders pushed back aggressively Tuesday against the decision by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to introduce a stopgap funding measure next week without budget cuts, but they
Wearing tri-corner Colonial hats and waving flags reading “No Taxation Without Representation,” about 20 activists from DC Vote demonstrated on the sidewalk in front of the G Street Southeast row
“We don’t have a prayer of defeating the Red Threat of our generation without a long boom of almost unprecedented duration” through “faster expansion of the private sector.”
Lugar said tea party activists who disagreed with his stance on the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty should “get real.”
My son didn’t have a bullet rip through one side of his brain, but he did have a life-threatening traumatic brain injury that put him in a coma for days, rendered the left side of his body without
Lawmakers who voted for it should not apologize for their votes — much less, as some craven ones have, demagogue against it. Orrin, you did the right thing, for the right reasons.
Congress should amend the law to “reflect current workplace rights norms in the private sector and the executive branch,” Barbara Camens, chairwoman of the OOC’s board of directors, said in a statement
Just a week into the race and without an election date solidified on the calendar, Hahn is acting like the frontrunner.
President Barack Obama has presented a $3.7 trillion fiscal 2012 budget request Monday that his administration contends will return annual deficits to a sustainable level by mid-decade without substantial
Republicans “will be presenting at the end of next month … our own budget, a serious document that will reflect the type of path we feel we should be taking to address the fiscal situation, including
Without some correction, our deficit will continue to explode.
That his reign would end badly should be no more surprising than it was for the leaders of the Communist bloc or Tunisia’s Ben Ali.
While cuts to foreign aid were very popular (73 percent supported them) and about half the respondents said the Pentagon budget should be reduced, very few people wanted Social Security or Medicare touched
“In our view, these joint fundraising committees should be barred,” said Fred Wertheimer, President of Democracy 21.
By not allowing his administration to hire registered lobbyists for political posts (without the occasional waiver), he has denied himself, and the country, access to some of the best and brightest
The former Massachusetts governor performed poorly in two key early states with substantial evangelical populations, Iowa and South Carolina, and he must either change that or build a successful effort without
The standards of the House should be much higher.
Bennett added that Bruce “is a lady of tremendous ability, tremendous experience, and … they should give her a lot of authority and get the job done.”