“It is pure baloney to say we have to pay the bills for things Congress has already approved. We are drawing the line on future spending, not the de...
WASHINGTON -- Some conservative House Republicans are making life difficult for Speaker John Boehner as he reaches for a "fiscal cliff" pact with Pres...
GOP candidates "bow and genuflect" to the Tea Party, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union." "As I listen to the Repub...
CASTLE DALE, Utah -- Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz fiercely opposed a debt-limit bill that took a significant swipe at the nation's deficit and had n...
Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) talked to people in Saco, Maine about the debt ceiling negotiations Wednesday, and lamented the extreme partisanship that...
How did the Tea Party wing of the Republican Party manage to convince so many Americans that the debt ceiling should not be raised? Voting to increase...
WASHINGTON — A top White House adviser is blaming the downgrade of the U.S. credit rating on Tea Party Republicans, whom he says were unwilling to c...
The seeds of the tea party Congressional budget hijack were planted the instant President Obama took the oath of office.
In the wake of the debt-ceiling debate, young voters might find it hard to believe that just ten years ago, "compassionate conservative" was a mantle ...
WASHINGTON -- Speaker John Boehner was desperate in his search for votes from his party to prevent a first-ever government default. But despite what a...
This week's agreement to increase the U.S. debt ceiling is no cause for celebration. The political landscape is covered with the blood of all the politicians who were losers in this "no win" battle.
The White House said on Tuesday that the use of the word “terrorists” to describe Tea Party Republicans is inappropriate and the “product of an ...
WASHINGTON – Republican Lindsey Graham's position on the debt ceiling deal Monday made one thing very plain: the senior senator from South Carolina ...
WASHINGTON — The newly struck debt-ceiling compromise between President Barack Obama and the Republican leaders of Congress represents a histori...
The partisan standoff over raising the federal debt ceiling could do more than destroy the nation's credit rating and economic health. It could make o...
WASHINGTON — He calls himself Sen. Tea Party. That almost says it all about Sen. Jim DeMint's role on the nation's political scene in these ner...
WASHINGTON (AP/The Huffington Post) -- Claiming that the two parties aren't that far apart, President Barack Obama is urging Democratic and Republican...
By Tom Brown MIAMI (Reuters) - They have been accused of holding Washington hostage by pushing the United States to the brink of a damaging debt de...
Tea Party leaders announced Thursday that they will mount primary challenges against four freshmen Republicans who have declared their support for Joh...
WASHINGTON -- A Senate Democrat says House Speaker John Boehner's failure to get fellow Republicans to back his debt limit bill dramatizes the folly o...
WASHINGTON -- House GOP leadership announced abruptly on Thursday evening that they were suspending a vote on Speaker John Boehner's (R-Ohio) debt cei...
Nevada Republican Sharron Angle, who made an unsuccessful run to unseat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in the 2010 election season, lashed out at S...
A budget is indeed a moral document, reflecting the character of a nation. All of our character qualities are being tested right now. All are pivotal.
WASHINGTON -- Movie clips, some coarse talk and behind-the-scenes hardball. House GOP leaders are selling, selling, selling Speaker John Boehner's de...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Republican leaders pleaded with their recalcitrant rank and file Thursday to back a plan to stave off an unprecedented govern...
