Tag: Debt Ceiling

VIDEO: Democrats vow to reject latest House GOP offer

Steve Doty · October 15, 2013 4:00 am

Low clouds and fog roll across Washington at sunrise Tuesday as Congress continues to negotiate their way free from the budget standoff that has shutdown many parts of the U.S. government for 15 days. (AP/J. David Ake)

House Republicans unveil counter to Senate debt limit plan

Andrew Taylor · October 15, 2013 4:00 am

Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, with House GOP leaders, speaks with reporters following a Republican strategy session at the Capitol on Tuesday. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

House Republicans preparing revised plan

Susan Ferrechio · October 15, 2013 4:00 am

White House rejects new GOP plan as effort to ‘appease’ Tea Party

Brian Hughes · October 15, 2013 4:00 am

Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., is surrounded by reporters after leaving the office of Senate Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ken., on Capitol Hill on Monday, Oct. 14, 2013 in Washington. Reid reported progress Monday towards a deal to avoid a threatened default and end a two-week partial government shutdown as President Barack Obama called congressional leaders to the White House to press for an end to the impasse. "We're getting closer," he told reporters. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Unions may win Obamacare fix in budget deal

Susan Crabtree · October 15, 2013 4:00 am

Low clouds and fog roll across Washington at sunrise Tuesday as Congress continues to negotiate their way free from the budget standoff that has shutdown many parts of the U.S. government for 15 days. (AP/J. David Ake)

House GOP nixes Senate debt plan, offers own 11th hour proposal

Susan Ferrechio · October 15, 2013 4:00 am

With the Senate in a holding pattern waiting to see what action the House takes, Sen. Susan Collins wants lawmakers to reconsider her compromise proposal. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Susan Collins to colleagues: Reconsider my plan

Steve Contorno · October 15, 2013 4:00 am

Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., center, joined by from left, House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Assistant Minority Leader James Clyburn, D-S.C., and Rep. Steve Israel, D-N.Y., as he speaks to members of the media outside the West Wing of the White House following their meeting with President Barack Obama, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2013, in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Steny Hoyer hopes no Democrats vote for latest GOP plan

Steve Contorno · October 15, 2013 4:00 am

Senate passes deal on debt and government shutdown, sends it to House

Sean Lengell · October 15, 2013 4:00 am

President Obama and Treasury Secretary Jack Lew have objected to a measure that includes language banning the Treasury from using "extraordinary measures" to create headroom under the debt ceiling in the future. (AP File)

Banning ‘extraordinary measures’ could reduce default risk

Joseph Lawler · October 15, 2013 4:00 am

Medicare inappropriately paid $23 million for services that began after the death of more than 17,000 beneficiaries in 2011, according to the Department of Health and Human Services' inspector general. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Beltway Confidential

Fitch warns debt ceiling fights could cost US status as global reserve currency

Joel Gehrke · October 15, 2013 4:00 am

House Republican leaders have have altered a Senate plan to raise the debt ceiling and fund the government that they may vote on it as easy as today, but a tepid reception from their conservative faction has created uncertainty just days before an Oct. 17 deadline to raise the nation's borrowing limit. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

House tweaks Senate debt ceiling plan, Democrats vow to reject it

Susan Ferrechio · October 15, 2013 4:00 am