HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.30.2011
WASHINGTON -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has tentatively signed off on a deal to raise the nation's debt ceiling, which has been prima...
AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 09.30.2011
WASHINGTON — Ending a perilous stalemate, President Barack Obama and congressional leaders announced a historic agreement Sunday night on emerge...
AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 09.28.2011
WASHINGTON — White House and congressional negotiators sought on Sunday to reassure the nation that they would beat a Tuesday deadline for averting ...
AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 09.26.2011
Neither the House nor the Senate had a clear path forward for must-pass legislation to allow the government to continue to borrow to pay its bills, pu...
AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 09.21.2011
Precariously short of time, congressional leaders struggled in urgent, weekend-long talks to avert an unprecedented government default, desperate to s...
Shan Wells | Posted 10.01.2011