Congress, Super Committee Running Out Of Time
WASHINGTON — A sputtering Congress enveloped in an atmosphere poisoned with politics and distrust enters its final weeks of the year struggling ...
WASHINGTON — A sputtering Congress enveloped in an atmosphere poisoned with politics and distrust enters its final weeks of the year struggling ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 11.26.2011
WASHINGTON -- The Senate passed a stopgap funding bill Monday to keep the government running, ending a weeklong battle over disaster aid that has turn...
Carl Pope | Posted 11.23.2011
Now that Obama is no longer signaling conciliation, it's Boehner's turn to experience the folly of trying to legislate with a faction that seeks to reignite the Civil War and take down the nation itself.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 11.22.2011
WASHINGTON -- After an embarrassing failed vote on Wednesday, House Republican leaders have settled on plan B for passing a resolution to keep the gov...
HuffingtonPost.com | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 11.22.2011
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Chamber of Commerce finds itself on the same side as environmental groups and labor unions on a budget cut that House Republica...
HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 11.21.2011
WASHINGTON -- House Democrats are being urged to vote against a bill on Wednesday to continue funding the government, putting it one step closer to a ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 11.08.2011
WASHINGTON -- Republicans will turn their focus to jobs after they pass a stopgap bill to continue funding the government, House Majority Leader Eric ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 11.07.2011
WASHINGTON -- Congress will take up a continuing resolution to fund the government on the week of Sept. 19, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) ...
Frances Beinecke | Posted 10.09.2011
A growing number of GOP lawmakers are starting to question the Tea Party's reckless overreach. They realize that anti-environmental efforts do not reflect the wishes of the American people.
HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 10.04.2011
WASHINGTON -- House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is attempting to lay a tougher line against funding cuts, telling reporters on Thursday th...
Frances Beinecke | Posted 08.13.2011
House Republican leaders and their Tea Party colleagues are working to block any effort to update the protections that keep our air and water clean.
Carl Pope | Posted 06.19.2011
Apparently, Republicans feared that, if the science is no longer open, and if NOAA were simply allowed to explain what we do and don't know, then the public would demand, not merely support, action.
HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 06.14.2011
WASHINGTON -- The new budget passed by Congress Thursday fixes a legislative gaffe that could have killed a new program that helps ailing 9/11 respond...
HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 06.14.2011
WASHINGTON -- Nancy Pelosi, the top Democrat in the House of Representatives, said on Thursday she feels no obligation to pass the bill to fund govern...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.14.2011
WASHINGTON -- The White House and Congressional lawmakers awoke Thursday morning to the possibility that an 11th-hour deal struck to keep the governme...
Robert Creamer | Posted 06.14.2011
Washington conventional wisdom has convinced itself that Obama has been on the losing end of the budget debate. But with his speech yesterday, Obama seized the high political ground that will heavily define his second two years in office.
John H. Marburger, III | Posted 06.07.2011
The House continuing resolution would force labs to curtail operations and in some cases to shut down for the year. Science cannot perform its vital functions in society if scientists are not working.
Sheri and Allan Rivlin | Posted 06.06.2011
Boehner cannot accept a shutdown, so as time runs out this weekend, he will accept whatever Continuing Resolution he can get.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.05.2011
WASHINGTON -- Congressional GOP leaders said on Tuesday that the Obama administration has informed them that it will oppose a last-ditch stopgap fundi...
HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 05.30.2011
WASHINGTON -- With nine days remaining until government funding expires, House Republican freshmen announced today they plan to rally on the steps of ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.28.2011
WASHINGTON -- As Congress' negotiations over a resolution to keep the government funded devolve, exasperated religious leaders on Monday said the deep...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.28.2011
Negotiations over a resolution to keep the government funded until the fall have devolved into recriminations, with Senate Democrats arguing that Hous...
Tara Sonenshine | Posted 05.25.2011
It would be more than unfortunate if peace abroad becomes a casualty of a domestic war. And it would be expensive in the long-term. Wars cost money and lives. If we don't stop wars overseas, we pay for them at home.
HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON -- A government shutdown is still possible when the current three-week federal funding bill runs out, House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wi...
Jamie Rappaport Clark | Posted 05.25.2011
Take a moment to look beyond the cuts and instead focus on the numerous policy changes proposed in the continuing resolution, and it quickly becomes clear that this is not fiscal prudence at work but ideology.
AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 01.08.2012