Susan Ferrechio

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Ted Cruz, Mike Lee launch ‘talking filibuster’ to block Obamacare

Susan Ferrechio · September 24, 2013 12:00 am

Ted Cruz to conservative blogosphere: Help me frame the case against Friday vote on measure that funds Obamacare

Susan Ferrechio · September 24, 2013 12:00 am

Senate Republican leaders won’t back Tea Party’s Obamacare defund strategy

Susan Ferrechio · September 23, 2013 12:00 am

Fight over government spending, Obamacare moves to Senate this week

Susan Ferrechio · September 23, 2013 12:00 am

Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, is flanked by reporters as he walks through Statuary Hall at the Capitol on the way to the House Chamber during a procedural vote related to the continuing resolution for fiscal year 2014 funding, in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2013. The White House is promising to veto, if necessary, a Republican effort to wreck President Barack Obama's health care law as part of House legislation to prevent a partial government shutdown. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House GOP to pass defunding resolution Friday, setting up Senate fight

Susan Ferrechio · September 20, 2013 4:00 am

Dennis Hastert was Speaker of the House from 1999 to 2007. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

The Hastert Rule (according to Dennis Hastert)

Susan Ferrechio · September 20, 2013 4:00 am

House passes government spending bill stripping out Obamacare funding, fight heads to Senate

Susan Ferrechio · September 20, 2013 4:00 am

Can John Boehner tame the House GOP?

Susan Ferrechio · September 20, 2013 12:00 am

House GOP proposal to defund Obamacare divides Senate Republicans

Susan Ferrechio · September 19, 2013 12:00 am

The Capitol Dome is seen reflected in water pooled on panels of glass on the visitors center on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept 12, 2013, as the Republican controlled House and the Democrat controlled Senate will have to work together to to avoid a government shutdown after the 2013 budget year ends Sept. 30. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

House Republicans may tie short-term spending bill with defunding health care law

David M. Drucker, Susan Ferrechio · September 18, 2013 4:00 am

GOP headed to Friday vote on short-term deal to fund government and strip money for health care law

Susan Ferrechio · September 18, 2013 12:00 am

House Armed Services Committee Chairman Howard "Buck" McKeon, R-Calif., has authored a scathing retort in the Moscow Times to Russian President Vladimir Putin's Sept. 11 New York Times op-ed on Syria. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Top House Republican authors Moscow Times rebuttal to Putin op-ed

Susan Ferrechio · September 17, 2013 4:00 am