Budget Vote

Government Shutdown Looms After Senate Blocks House Funding Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 11.23.2011

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WASHINGTON - The Senate on Friday rejected a House-passed measure to keep the government funded past Sept. 30, signaling that Senate Democrats are rea...

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Government Shutdown Looms As House Rejects Short-Term Budget Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 11.21.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The House on Wednesday failed to pass legislation to keep the government funded past next week, a major defeat for Speaker John Boehner ...

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Controversial GOP Budget Proposal Passes House Vote

AP | By ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 06.15.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The House has passed a Republican budget blueprint proposing to fundamentally overhaul Medicare for future beneficiaries while combating...

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House Democrats Finally Show They Can Play Hardball With Parliamentary Rules

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 06.15.2011

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WASHINGTON -- House Democrats showed Friday that they, too, have it in them to pull the kinds of parliamentary tricks on the House floor that Republic...

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Budget Bill Vote Surrounded By Drama, Last-Minute Lobbying (UPDATE)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.14.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The White House and Congressional lawmakers awoke Thursday morning to the possibility that an 11th-hour deal struck to keep the governme...

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Are We a Society?

Gary Hart | Posted 05.25.2011

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The current U.S. budget confrontation raises the issue of whether we are a society, a community, or a collection of individuals inhabiting the same geographical space.

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Senate To Vote On Rival GOP, Democratic Budget Plans

AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The Democratic-led Senate on Wednesday emphatically rejected a budget-slashing House spending bill as too draconian. It then immedi...

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Senate To Vote On Rival Democratic, GOP Budgets

AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — A freshman Democratic senator accused President Barack Obama on Tuesday of failing to provide leadership on a worsening national de...

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Stop the Madness! Call Your Members of Congress Today

Stacie Nevadomski Berdan | Posted 05.25.2011

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More people in the world are bilingual than monolingual -- except in the United States. Something's wrong with this picture.

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House Passes Budget With No GOP Votes

AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Democrats in Congress capped President Barack Obama's 100th day in office by advancing a $3.4 trillion federal budget for next year...

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Progressives Launch Campaign Targeting Centrist Senate Dems

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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A coalition of progressive groups and officials announced the launch of a media and grassroots campaign Tuesday to target conservative Democrats they ...

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