Tag: Government Shutdown

Why Obama issues empty veto threats

Brian Hughes · September 14, 2014 9:00 am

Reid is complaining that Republicans have advanced his own bill in order to "stall" the Senate. (Getty images / Chip Somodevilla)

Harry Reid’s government shutdown

Washington Examiner · September 10, 2014 9:00 am

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House unveils emergency bill to fund government

Susan Ferrechio · September 10, 2014 1:41 am

VIDEO: Congress is back, here’s what to expect

Ed Sykes · September 8, 2014 7:56 pm

FILE - In this Sept. 9, 2013 file photo television news lights await the start of activity on Capitol Hill in Washington as both houses of Congress return to full legislative session. Lawmakers are streaming back to Capitol Hill after this year's summer vacation for an abbreviated September session in which feuding Democratic and Republican leaders promise action to prevent a government shutdown while holding votes aimed at defining the parties for the fall campaign. Republicans control the House and want to pad their 17-vote majority, so they intend to follow this simple rule: first, do no harm. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Summer break over, must-do tasks await Congress

Andrew Taylor · September 8, 2014 1:27 pm

Republican aides on Capitol Hill say there is no chance of a government shutdown this fall, pushing back against a common Democratic argument heading into the midterms. (AP Photo)

GOP aides: No chance of shutdown

Susan Ferrechio · September 2, 2014 5:49 pm

U.S. Park Service employee puts a closed sign on the restrooms at the World War II Memorial ticket office on the National Mall on Oct. 1, 2013, in Washington. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty images)

Beltway Confidential

If the GOP were planning a government shutdown, we’d know about it

Becket Adams · September 1, 2014 1:00 pm

Republican aides on Capitol Hill say there is no chance of a government shutdown this fall, pushing back against a common Democratic argument heading into the midterms. (AP Photo)

Another government shutdown? Not gonna happen

Byron York · August 28, 2014 10:26 pm

White House press secretary Josh Earnest continues to raise the specter of Republicans shutting down the government. (Getty images/Chip Somodevilla)

For White House, talk of government shutdown is impeachment redux

Brian Hughes · August 27, 2014 11:48 pm

The White House is eager to stoke such talk, and Earnest was quick to blame conservatives for last year's 16-day government shutdown, attributing it to their dissatisfaction with Obamacare. (AP Photo)

White House has ‘no idea’ whether government will shut down

Brian Hughes · August 27, 2014 6:53 pm

Export-Import Bank faces rocky path to renewal as Congress returns

Timothy P. Carney · August 26, 2014 10:56 pm

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks to supporters while campaigning at a Rental Pro store during a two day bus tour of eastern Kentucky August 7, 2014 in Hazard, Kentucky. McConnell is locked in a tight race against Democratic challenger Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Energy and Environment

Environmental groups hope to use Mitch McConnell’s words against him

Zack Colman · August 21, 2014 9:00 am