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Obama Signs Measure Averting Government Shutdown

AP | Posted 03.27.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has signed a stopgap spending bill to keep the government running through the end of September. The measure...

Government Funding Bill Sails Through House

AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 03.21.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The House Thursday passed a huge spending bill to keep the government open through the end of September, sidestepping any threat of a go...

Cliff Hanger: The President's Unnecessary and Unwise Concessions

Robert Reich | Posted 02.19.2013 | Politics
Robert Reich

Hands off Social Security. If the Republicans are willing to raise tax rates on high earners but demand more spending cuts in return, the president should offer larger cuts in defense spending and corporate welfare.

Bill To Avert Gov Shutdown Clears Senate Hurdle

AP | Posted 09.19.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- A spending bill required to avoid a government shutdown at the end of the month has cleared a procedural hurdle in the Senate. The bipa...

Obama Signs 2012 Spending Bill

AP | JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 02.22.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama told Congress restrictions on his ability to transfer detainees from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo ...

Government Shutdown Odds Change

AP | DAVID ESPO and ALAN FRAM | Posted 02.15.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON — Senate leaders agreed on compromise legislation Friday night to extend Social Security payroll tax cuts and jobless benefits for tw...

House Republicans Unveil $1 Trillion Spending Bill

AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 02.13.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON — Republicans yielded on policy affecting communist Cuba and Democrats gave way on new energy standards for light bulbs to seal an ag...

Obama Pushes Senate Democrats To Use Their Leverage

AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 02.12.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's Democratic allies in the Senate are using a critical year-end spending bill as political leverage to try t...

Government Spending Bill Takes Shape Behind Closed Doors

AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 02.11.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON — Weary after a year of partisan bickering, lawmakers reached a tentative agreement Monday on a sprawling $1 trillion-plus spending b...

GOP Lawmakers Hold Spending and Tax Bills Hostage With Anti-Environmental Riders

Frances Beinecke | Posted 02.07.2012 | Green
Frances Beinecke

Once again Congress is facing hard deadlines for must-pass legislation. And once again, GOP leaders are holding up the process with anti-environmental riders.

House Debates Bill To Avert Impending Government Shutdown

AP | ALAN FRAM | Posted 01.17.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON — A weekend government shutdown that neither party wanted was averted when Congress approved a compromise spending bill Thursday, as ...

Elise Foley

GOP Senators Threaten To Derail All Bills That Don't Cut Debt

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- A group of Republican senators led by David Vitter of Louisiana sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) Thursday tha...

Howard Fineman

Tea Time: New Era Of Leadership Begins With Blocked Spending Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Howard Fineman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The new, more Republican Congress won't arrive in town until next month, but the Tea Party Era unofficially began on the Hill Thursday n...

John McCain To Tea Party: 'Grab Your Pitchforks'

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) pulled out the rebellious rhetoric Thursday morning, telling Tea Partyers to "grab your pitchforks" against the bipartisan ...

Elise Foley

Cornyn, Thune Plan Assault On Health Care In Spending Bill Fight

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Republicans who requested millions of dollars worth of earmarks in the omnibus appropriations bill for fiscal year 2011 are now calling ...

Republicans Abandon Tough Talk On Deficits With First Spending Bill

AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON — House Republicans who have spent months demanding spending cuts blanched Wednesday at their first opportunity to actually make them...

Ryan Grim

Pelosi: House Will Pass COBRA Subsidies, State Aid

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said on Tuesday that the House would return to the debate over COBRA subsidies and aid to state governments when Congr...

Senate Passses $1.1 trillion spending bill to Obama

AP | JIM ABRAMS | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON — The Senate on Sunday passed a $1.1 trillion spending bill with increased budgets for vast areas of the federal government, includin...

House Passes Bill To Prevent Government Shutdown

AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON — The House passed legislation Friday to head off a government shutdown next week by temporarily extending spending on most federal p...

Obama Earmark Reform Remarks (FULL TEXT)

AP/MSNBC | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

President Barack Obama plans to sign a massive spending bill to keep the federal government running, even though it is stashed with the very kinds of ...

Obama Signs "Imperfect" Spending Bill In Private

AP | PHILIP ELLIOTT | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama, sounding weary of criticism over federal earmarks, defended Congress' pet projects Wednesday as he signed a...

Omnibus Spending Bill: Highlights Of What It Contains

AP | The Associated Press | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Highlights of the $410 billion omnibus spending bill funding 12 Cabinet departments and lesser agency budgets for 2009: ____...

House Approves $410B Bill To Boost Domestic Spending

AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON — The Democratic-controlled House pushed through a $410 billion measure Wednesday that boosted domestic programs, bristled with earma...

Senate Approves $25 Billion Automaker Loan In Spending Bill

AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

WASHINGTON — Automakers gained $25 billion in taxpayer-subsidized loans and oil companies won elimination of a long-standing ban on drilling off...

Senate sends big spending bill to Bush to sign

AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

WASHINGTON — Automakers gained $25 billion in taxpayer-subsidized loans and oil companies won elimination of a long-standing ban on drilling off...