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From left, Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., chair of the Senate Budget Committee, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., talk to reporters about the final work of the Senate as their legislative year nears to a close, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 19, 2013. Reid promises a vote no later than Jan. 7 on a measure to extend jobless benefits for three months. He said the number of jobless people out of work for more than six months is far greater than in past economic recoveries. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate leader vows Jan. vote on jobless benefits

Andrew Taylor · December 19, 2013 6:56 pm

Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray, D-Wash., takes an escalator to the Senate for votes on nominations Dec. 16 at the Capitol in Washington. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Several GOP senators to back a vote on budget bill

Andrew Taylor · December 17, 2013 5:00 am

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, left, joined by House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., takes reporters' questions, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

House GOP conservatives help propel budget bill

Andrew Taylor · December 13, 2013 5:00 am

Family feud: Boehner takes on GOP critics on right

Andrew Taylor · December 12, 2013 10:44 pm

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., left, and Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray, D-Wash., announce a tentative agreement between Republican and Democratic negotiators on a government spending plan, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013. Negotiators reached the modest budget agreement to restore about $65 billion in automatic spending cuts from programs ranging from parks to the Pentagon, with votes expected in both houses by week's end. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

New estimate says budget deal raises deficit $41B

Andrew Taylor · December 11, 2013 2:51 pm

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., center, discusses the unfinished work of Congress and the struggle for Republican and Democratic budget negotiators to reach a compromise, at a news conference on Capitol Hill on Thursday. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Budget deal? Big obstacles, New Year’s deadline

Andrew Taylor · December 5, 2013 11:16 pm

GOP opposes Democratic drive to renew jobless aid

Andrew Taylor · December 3, 2013 11:11 pm

FILE - In this Friday, March 22, 2013, file photo, the exterior of the Internal Revenue Service building in Washington, is shown. The Obama administration, on Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2013, launched a bid to rein in the use of tax-exempt groups for political campaigning. The effort is an attempt to reduce the role of loosely regulated big-money political outfits like GOP political guru Karl Rove's Crossroads GPS and the pro-Obama Priorities USA. The Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department said they want to prohibit such groups from using "candidate-related political activity" like running ads, registering voters or distributing campaign literature as activities that qualify them to be tax-exempt "social welfare" organizations. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

IRS pushes to rein in tax-exempt political groups

Andrew Taylor · November 27, 2013 8:15 pm

Ethics panel defers to Justice in Rep. Grimm probe

Andrew Taylor · November 26, 2013 6:05 pm

Prospects brighten for small-scale budget deal

Andrew Taylor · November 25, 2013 8:51 pm

A sign advertising a career fair is seen outside along a main street during a job fair at the University of Illinois Springfield campus Thursday, Sept. 1, 2011 in Springfield, Ill. (AP File)

Democrats launch effort to renew jobless benefits

Andrew Taylor · November 20, 2013 7:17 pm

Few support delaying changes in flood insurance

Andrew Taylor · November 20, 2013 8:51 am