Andrew Taylor

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Boehner: No decision on accepting ‘cliff’ pact

Andrew Taylor · January 1, 2013 4:37 am

Senate leaders offer dour take on ‘cliff’ talks

Andrew Taylor · December 30, 2012 7:23 pm

Senate leaders in last-ditch fiscal cliff talks

Andrew Taylor · December 28, 2012 10:31 pm

President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks to reporters about the fiscal cliff in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, Friday, Dec. 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Obama seeks scaled-down ‘fiscal cliff’ agreement

Andrew Taylor · December 22, 2012 3:48 pm

Majority Leader Eric Cantor from Virginia, center, departs after a House Republicans meeting on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012 in Washington. Confronted with a revolt among the rank and file, House Republicans abruptly put off a vote Thursday night on legislation allowing tax rates to rise for households earning $1 million and up.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Boehner on averting fiscal cliff: ‘God only knows’

Andrew Taylor · December 21, 2012 5:06 pm

Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, joined by the Republican leadership speaks to reporters about the fiscal cliff negotiations with President Obama following a closed-door strategy session, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Cliff talks hit a lull with Boehner’s ‘Plan B’

Andrew Taylor · December 19, 2012 12:55 am

FILE - In this Monday, Sept. 19, 2011 file photo, Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, president pro temper of the Senate, and a recipient of the Medal of Honor, attends a ceremony on Capitol Hill in Washington, where he is presented a commemorative coin marking the 150th anniversary of the creation of the Medal of Honor by Congress. Inouye has died of respiratory complications, Monday, Dec. 17, 2012. He was 88. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Sen. Daniel Inouye of Hawaii dead at 88

Andrew Taylor · December 18, 2012 1:22 am

FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2011, file photo, Rep. Tim Scott, R-S.C. listens at a House Rules committee meeting, on Capitol Hill in Washington. A Washington GOP official says South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley has chosen Rep. Tim Scott to replace Jim DeMint in the Senate. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

GOP official: SC Gov Haley to tap Scott for Senate

Andrew Taylor · December 17, 2012 4:38 pm

Sen. Inouye battles respiratory complications

Andrew Taylor · December 17, 2012 4:54 am

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio accuses President Barack Obama of not being serious about cutting government spending, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012, during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Boehner is insisting that Obama wants far more in tax increases than spending reductions and appears willing to walk the economy "right up to the fiscal cliff." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Time for Plan B on ‘fiscal cliff?’

Andrew Taylor · December 15, 2012 12:28 am

Durbin: White House won’t increase Medicare age

Andrew Taylor · December 13, 2012 7:46 pm

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, leaves after a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012, following the GOP caucus. Boehner and the other House Republican leaders are calling for Obama to come up with plan they can accept for spending cuts and tax revenue to avoid the so-called "fiscal cliff" of automatic tax hikes and budget reductions. From left are, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., Boehner, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Va. and Rep. James Lankford, R-Okla. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

‘Fiscal cliff’ talks vexing official Washington

Andrew Taylor · December 13, 2012 5:18 pm