Tag: Budgets and Deficits

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-KY, speaks at a press conference following a Senate Republican policy meeting, Wednesday, July 8. 2015. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

McConnell looks to quell conservative floor fight

Susan Ferrechio · July 26, 2015 7:02 pm

"I wouldn't predict there is one at this point if there was a vote right now this night," said Rep. King.

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Steve King: Chamber of Commerce for ‘cheap labor at any cost’

Byron York · July 26, 2015 4:30 pm

"The EPA has been slow walking the publication of the Clean Power Plan in an attempt to delay the inevitable," said Sen. Jim Inhofe. (AP File Photo/Andrew Harnik)

GOP Sen.: Transportation bill one of the ‘most important issues’ of 2015

Sarah Bedford · July 25, 2015 2:24 pm

"The Department of Justice should work with sexual assault victims and make sure they get justice. And the failure to analyze rape kits is shameful, it's shameful in my opinion,"Â Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas,Â said.Â (AP Photo/Martha Irvine, File)

Justice Dept. insists it has no appropriation for rape-kit testing

Elizabeth Potter · July 23, 2015 8:52 pm

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Boehner says stopgap funding bill inevitable

Susan Ferrechio · July 23, 2015 4:47 pm

Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan speaks at a rally for Senator Durenberger February 8, 1982. Reagan turns 92 on February 6, 2003. (Photo by Michael Evans/The White House/Getty Images)

Can Republicans even cut government?

W. James Antle III · July 23, 2015 4:01 am

Senators voted 62-36 to begin debate on a $47 billion measure authorizing surface infrastructure projects for six years.Â (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Senate advances six-year highway funding measure

Susan Ferrechio · July 23, 2015 12:47 am

A pensioner reads a newspaper on September 8, 2014 in Walsall, England. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Social Security disability program to go bust in 2016

Joseph Lawler · July 22, 2015 5:43 pm

Verterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald testifies about pending Veteran Affairs health care budget shortfall and system shutdown at a House Veterans Affairs Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, July 22, 2015. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Congress blasts VA for threatening to close hospitals

Sarah Bedford · July 22, 2015 5:10 pm

Pupils at Williamwood High School attend a biology class on February 5, 2010 in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

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Teachers union caught breaking campaign finance laws, gets off easy

Jason Russell · July 22, 2015 4:12 pm

Labor Department Secretary Tom Perez has sought to reinterpret old rules to expand its reach, an approach that allows it to bypass Congress. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)

Perez defends plan to crack down on investment advice

Sean Higgins · July 21, 2015 11:19 pm

Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen expressed skepticism about using the funds to fund highway spending in congressional testimony last week, telling Senate Banking Committee Chairman Richard Shelby, R-Ala., that she worried about the "unintended consequences" of lowering the dividend. Shelby also indicated opposition to using the dividend as a pay-for.

Highway bill would cut dividends paid by Fed to banks

Joseph Lawler · July 21, 2015 10:09 pm