A while back I was writing about the Republican threat of a government-wide shutdown, and the two-week Federal Aviation Administration shutdown (and D...
WASHINGTON -- Just a week away from a possible government shutdown, lawmakers boxed themselves into a new budget impasse Friday. With Congress' appro...
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) admitted on Monday that the federal government is in serious need of extra revenue. But since taking control of th...
I missed this when it was reported a couple days ago, but apparently, a few days after Senator Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) stood on the Senate floor and misled ...
Last week, Senator Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) received a fusillade of criticism when he took to the Senate floor to declare that abortion was "well over 90 per...
The thing about legislative compromises is nobody gets everything they want. That's a fact of life for the 435 members of the House of Representatives...
Last week, Jon Kyl went on the Senate floor to claim that "well over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does" was provide abortions. The correct figure is actually closer to three percent. So this week, the women of the Senate Democratic caucus took to the Senate floor to rise in defense of reproductive rights, and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand lined up a square shot at Kyl, who everyone seems to be ridiculing these days.
If you were anywhere near Capitol Hill last Friday night, or a teevee with cameras pointed at Capitol Hill last Friday night, or at a computer watchin...
Last week's near shutdown of the government occurred because we were supposedly having an intensely "serious" discussion about reducing the federal de...
Over the weekend, the White House averted a government shutdown by largely agreeing to the GOP's terms on discretionary spending. One might see this as a bad thing, but not the White House. Advisor David Plouffe has been on the air ever since, linking Friday's capitulation with the administration's December lame duck capitulation as a great example of a governing strategy, where everyone "comes together" and more or less agrees to what John Boehner wants to do.
House Speaker John Boehner spoke about a budget deal struck between Democratic and Republican leaders late last Friday to avert a government shutdown ...
WASHINGTON – A last-minute budget deal forged amid bluster and tough bargaining averted an embarrassing federal shutdown, cut billions in spending a...
As you may recall, during today's lengthy Pap Smear Armageddon/Government Shutdown 2011 pageant play, Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) stood on ...
WASHINGTON — Republicans portray Planned Parenthood as primarily focused on performing abortions and – intentionally or not – using ...
There's only a few hours left before all of America is plunged into John Boehner's Pap Smear Armageddon or whatever, and Matt Yglesias has video of Re...
WASHINGTON -- Senate Democrats briefed on a potential budget deal say that Republicans have agreed to drop House-passed provisions to block the Enviro...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The official who carried out the last government shutdown has a warning for squabbling lawmakers -- another one now could be ...
The entire government will shut down in just about ten hours unless Democrats agree to allow House Republicans to hurl angry birds at every Planned Parenthood facility in America.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid signaled that Democrats will not waver in their opposition to Republican efforts to defund Planned Parenthood in the...
You'd still get your mail – and your usual Social Security payment. But troops' pay might be delayed, and you'd have to put off that spring brea...
As House Republicans threaten to shut down the government over federal funding for Planned Parenthood, the woman at the helm of that controversial org...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A weather forecaster says he may have to live off the money he's been setting aside for a Caribbean vacation. A worker in Wa...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- With the clock ticking to a partial government shutdown at midnight, the top Democrat in the Senate said Friday that the White Hous...
WASHINGTON (AP) - The threat to U.S. troops' paychecks during a government shutdown has rattled military families and others sympathetic to young sold...
John Boehner has a decision to make. And in some ways it's akin to choosing between his children. By midnight tonight the government will shut down un...
