Tag: Budgets and Deficits

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-KY, arrives at a press conference on Capitol Hill, Thursday, July 30, 2015. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Senate passes multiyear highway funding bill 65-34

Susan Ferrechio · July 30, 2015 4:53 pm

Â A 14-passenger Citylink bus travels down Highway 95 on the Coeur d' Alene Indian Reservation, December 15, 2005 north of Tensed, Idaho. (Photo by Jeff T. Green/Getty Images)

House approves short-term highway funding deal

Susan Ferrechio · July 29, 2015 10:05 pm

White House deputy press secretary Eric Schultz.Â (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

White House scolds Congress for having the ‘gall’ to leave for August break

Nicole Duran · July 29, 2015 8:20 pm

House Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price, R-Ga., told Primo that he would support a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution but that approval of such an amendment seems unlikely in the near future.Â (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Beltway Confidential

Why a constitutional amendment is the best way to fix the budget

Jason Russell · July 28, 2015 9:14 pm

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., walks away after a policy luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 21, 2015. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)

Senate accepts House highway bill, keeping Ex-Im Bank dead through August

Susan Ferrechio · July 28, 2015 7:29 pm

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., conducts a news conference after a policy luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 21, 2015. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)

Senate plans vote to defund Planned Parenthood before August break

Susan Ferrechio · July 28, 2015 5:55 pm

Gathering before a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 25, 2015, from left, Senate Minority Whip Richard Durbin of Ill., House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., Rep. Xavier Becerra, D-Calif., Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., and House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., talk on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 25, 2015. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Senators slam House for hitting the road to dodge the Senate’s highway bill

Susan Ferrechio · July 28, 2015 5:32 pm

Lee has refused to endorse so far in the GOP primary because of his friendship with Rubio, Cruz and Paul. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)

Beltway Confidential

Lee cuts a deal with McConnell on Obamacare vote, avoiding floor fight on highways

Timothy P. Carney · July 28, 2015 3:37 am

Republican presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul, R-K.Y., speaks as Secretary of State John Kerry, Secretary of Treasury Jack Lew, and Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz testify at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Thursday, July 23, 2015, to review the Iran nuclear agreement. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Rand Paul: It’s time to discuss taxpayer funding for ‘gruesome’ Planned Parenthood

Barbara Boland · July 26, 2015 10:28 pm

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., conducts a news conference after a policy luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 21, 2015. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)

Senate advances Export-Import Bank lifeline

Susan Ferrechio · July 26, 2015 8:15 pm

This photo combination shows, from left, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, left, Republican presidential candidate, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, of Texas, and Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul, of Kentucky. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall/Nati Harnik/Carloyn Kaster)

Will rare Senate session allow Cruz, Paul to bust Trump?

Barbara Boland · July 26, 2015 8:10 pm

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, listens during a Senate Armed Services Committee on July 21, 2015 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

Senate easily blocks Obamacare repeal, setting up Monday GOP showdown

Susan Ferrechio · July 26, 2015 7:54 pm