Alan Fram

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Senate kills effort to derail budget bill

Alan Fram · September 27, 2013 12:58 pm

House GOP may add budget cuts to debt limit bill

Alan Fram · September 20, 2013 4:49 pm

FILE - In the Sept. 10, 2013, file photo Democratic state Sen. Angela Giron waves to supporters as she gives her concession speech after she lost in a recall vote in Pueblo, Colo. Giron is one of two Colorado state lawmakers, who helped enact stricter firearms laws in the aftermath of the mass shootings in Colorado and Connecticut last year, to have been been ousted in National Rifle Association-aided recall elections. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

Colorado recall stifles gun effort in Congress

Alan Fram · September 14, 2013 2:49 pm

House OKs 40th effort to repeal health law

Alan Fram · August 2, 2013 5:56 pm

FILE - In this July 17, 2013 file photo U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. nominee Samantha Power testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Senate easily confirmed President Barack Obama's selection for ambassador to the United Nations on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013, capping a month in which senators used a bipartisan truce on once-mired nominations to fill a cluster of vacancies in the president's second-term administration. Senators approved Samantha Power for the post by 87-10. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

Senate approves Obama’s nominee for UN ambassador

Alan Fram · August 2, 2013 3:08 am

IRS worker: No political bias against tea party

Alan Fram · June 18, 2013 11:17 pm

FILE - In this Nov. 9, 2011, file photo then-Controller Danny Werfel of OMB Office of Federal Financial Management watches as President Barack Obama (not shown) signs an Executive Order to cut waste and promote efficient spending across the federal government in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington. Friday May 31st, 2013, Werfel, the new acting Commissioner of the IRS, issued a statement commenting on a report by Treasury Department's Inspector General in which he criticized a $4 million IRS conference in August 2010 in Anaheim, Calif. The report will be released Tuesday. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

House panel: Report finds $50M for IRS conferences

Alan Fram · June 3, 2013 4:00 am

IRS names financial manager new chief risk officer

Alan Fram · May 28, 2013 10:21 pm

CBO: Obama budget cuts deficits $1.1T by 2023

Alan Fram · May 17, 2013 9:39 pm

Gun control fight spills over to federal research

Alan Fram · April 23, 2013 6:56 pm

Gun control sponsor says NRA scorecard killed bill

Alan Fram · April 18, 2013 1:50 pm

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. right, meets with Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., at City Hall in New York, Monday, April 15, 2013. In a bipartisan 68-31 vote Thursday, senators rejected an effort by conservatives to block debate on Democrats' gun control legislation, a measure backed by President Barack Obama. The National Rifle Association, a foe of the Democratic bill, was sponsoring a NASCAR race in Fort Worth, Texas, and using tweets to urge its supporters to watch it on television. Murphy has asked the Fox network not to broadcast the event, but it was still scheduled to be televised. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Gun background check deal in jeopardy in Senate

Alan Fram · April 15, 2013 4:00 am