Tag: House of Representatives

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., gave House Republicans an âImmigration Resource Kitâ Friday. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

Beltway Confidential

Morning Examiner: Immigration talking points signal House to move on legalization soon

Conn Carroll · August 5, 2013 4:00 am

If not for Katharine Graham's sheer courage, Watergate might have been dismissed as a "phony scandal." (AP File)

Congress should pass the federal shield law for journalists, bloggers

Charles Glasser · August 5, 2013 4:00 am

Rep. Ted Yoho, R-Fla., suggested a tax on tanning salons included in President Obamaâs health care reform law was discriminatory because âdark skinnedâ people donât using tanning booths. (AP File)

Florida Republican calls Obamacare tax ‘racist’ against whites

Sean Lengell · August 5, 2013 4:00 am

Washington Secrets

Mainstream Media Scream: CNN’s Costello ‘haha’ at House GOP’s shutdown threat

Paul Bedard · August 5, 2013 12:00 am

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor R-Va., told Fox News Sunday there is no schedule yet for the House to take up immigration. (AP File)

No big push for comprehensive immigration reform by October, House Majority Leader says

Susan Ferrechio · August 4, 2013 4:00 am

Brennan Sent Letter to Benghazi ‘Survivors’

Stephen F. Hayes · August 3, 2013 10:19 pm

McConnell: GOP Should ‘Just Keep Punching’ at Individual Mandate

Michael Warren · August 2, 2013 5:10 pm

Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and other Senate Democratic leaders, speak to reporters after Senate Republicans killed a $54 billion funding bill for transportation, housing and community development grants because it exceeded spending limits required under automatic budget cuts, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 1. From left to right are Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., chair of the Senate Budget Committee, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

GOP divide over spending cuts weakens chances of getting the budget they want

Susan Ferrechio · August 2, 2013 4:00 am

Rep. Collin Peterson, D-Minn., says legislation being prepared by House Republicans to cut food stamp funding is a "messaging" bill. (AP File)

Beltway Confidential

House Republicans calls for more food stamp cuts

Sean Lengell · August 2, 2013 4:00 am

House Budget Committee member Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., right, accompanied by committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., left, and other committee members, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011, to unveil a "comprehensive reform effort aimed to repair the broken budget process". (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Republicans plot strategy to renew Obamacare fight in the fall

David M. Drucker · August 2, 2013 4:00 am

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., led the House vote to oppose a carbon tax. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Energy and Environment

House passes amendment opposing carbon tax

Tim Mak · August 2, 2013 4:00 am

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, says he will oppose any new Continuing Resolution to fund the government in 2014 that doesn't defund Obamacare. The Manhattan Institute's Yegeniy Feyman believes that is the wrong strategy for repealing President Obama's signature domestic program. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Defunding Obamacare is not the only way to be rid of it

Yegeniy Feyman · August 2, 2013 4:00 am