Tag: Congress

Beltway Confidential

SECURE 2.0 still looks like bad policy

Mark Warshawsky · December 15, 2022 6:01 pm

Beltway Confidential

Enough is enough: Senate Republicans shouldn’t cave and pass massive spending bill

Richard Stern · December 15, 2022 5:48 pm

House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, D-Calif., speaks to the media at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 2, 2019.

Congress considers omnibus as deadline approaches

Washington Examiner · December 15, 2022 3:55 pm

Biden administration re-ups free COVID-19 tests as holidays approach

Steff Thomas · December 15, 2022 3:21 pm

A group of Republican senators, from left, Rand Paul, R-KY, Mike Lee, R-UT, Ron Johnson, R-WI, and Rick Scott, R-FL, tell reporters that they want a clean CR that extends government funding until after the new Congress begins in 2023 at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022.

Conservative senators mull shutdown fight over one-week spending bill

David Sivak · December 15, 2022 12:45 pm

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy speak to reporters outside the White House after a meeting with President Joe Biden on May 12, 2021, in Washington.

Kevin McCarthy takes aim at Mitch McConnell as Republican leaders clash over spending plan

Ryan King · December 15, 2022 12:41 pm

Bottles of aged rum sit on a table prior to labeling at the Samai distillery in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Tuesday, July 24, 2018.

Congress should give taxpayers the gift of ending rum subsidies

Brian Garst · December 15, 2022 5:43 am

Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn. questions Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 29, 2017. during a House Appropriations subcommittee to outline the Trump Administration's proposals to trim the HHS budget.

House passes short-term extension on government funding

Virginia Aabram · December 15, 2022 1:15 am

The incoming Congress will be more pro-school choice than ever

Peter Murphy · December 15, 2022 12:00 am

McCarthy declines to say whether he will endorse Trump

Juliegrace Brufke · December 14, 2022 9:05 pm

This photo taken July 23, 2013, show the U.S. Capitol in Washington. Congress returns to work this week with a relatively short and simple agenda, vote to keep the government operating in the short term, then return home to campaign. National security threats from Islamic State militants and Russian aggression in Ukraine loom large, but September's session may be too short for lawmakers to do anything but talk about them.

Congress reaches deal to avoid government shutdown, negotiators say

Brady Knox · December 14, 2022 2:23 am

Abigail Spanberger and Elissa Slotkin will work with responsible Republicans on national security

Marc Polymeropoulos · December 14, 2022 12:00 am