Sean Lengell

Read the latest stories and analysis from Sean Lengell.

John Boehner: Conservative groups’ attacks on budget deal ‘step over the line’

Sean Lengell · December 12, 2013 5:00 am

Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., pauses as he speaks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington in December 2012. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Sen. Dick Durbin to join fast in support of immigration reform

Sean Lengell · December 12, 2013 5:00 am

House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., discusses the prospects of a since-reached budget deal, at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on Dec. 5. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Steny Hoyer: Budget deal likely will need Democratic support to pass House

Sean Lengell · December 11, 2013 5:00 am

Congress poised to punt on long-term farm bill

Congress poised to punt on long-term farm bill

Sean Lengell · December 10, 2013 5:00 am

President Obama gestures while nominating Patricia Ann Millett, an appellate lawyer, to become a federal judge, during an event in the Rose Garden at the White House on June 4, 2013 in Washington, D.C. If confirmed by the Senate, Obama's three nominees will fill three vacancies on United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty images)

Powerful D.C. Circuit Court has Democratic majority bench for first time since Reagan

Sean Lengell · December 10, 2013 5:00 am

Rep. Mel Watt, D-NC., waves during the announcement of his nomination to head the Federal Housing Finance Authority, in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington on May 1. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Senate confirms Mel Watt to head federal housing agency

Sean Lengell · December 10, 2013 5:00 am

The price of a gallon of milk is at risk of doubling in early 2014 if lawmakers don't pass a long-delayed farm bill by year's end. (AP Photo)

Milk prices poised to double unless Congress acts on farm bill

Sean Lengell · December 6, 2013 5:00 am

Congress fails to pass major agenda items or budget in ‘God-awful’ session

Congress fails to pass major agenda items or budget in ‘God-awful’ session

Sean Lengell · December 6, 2013 5:00 am

President Obama arrives to speak in the briefing room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013, about the death of Nelson Mandela. Obama says the world has lost an influential, courageous and 'profoundly good' man with the death of anti-apartheid icon Mandela. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama on Mandela: ‘He no longer belongs to us, he belongs to the ages’

Associated Press, Sean Lengell, Susan Crabtree · December 5, 2013 5:00 am

House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., said a short-term measure that funds the government at the GOP's $967 billion rate, instead of a $1.058 trillion level pushed by many Democrats, would shortchange federal agencies.ÃÂ (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Rep. Steny Hoyer won’t support short-term government spending bills

Sean Lengell · December 3, 2013 5:00 am

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a conservative Christian university's challenge to several key parts of President Obama's health care law.

Supreme Court rejects Liberty University’s Obamacare challenge

Sean Lengell · December 2, 2013 5:00 am

Robert Wilkins' nomination to fill one of three vacant seats on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit -- considered the nation's second most powerful bench behind the Supreme Court -- fell six votes shy of the 60 needed to overcome a GOP filibuster. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Senate Republicans reject Obama nominee as Democrats amp up ‘nuclear option’ threat

Sean Lengell · November 18, 2013 5:00 am