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No sign of deal to end budget impasse
As the federal government shutdown rolled through the weekend, there were no signs either party was giving in, as lawmakers in the Congress and the White House traded more shots over who is to blame for the ongoing budget impasse. Republicans in the House plan to push through more mini-funding ...
White House scraps Obama trip to Asia
The budget impasse that has led to a government shutdown has forced President Obama to cancel a scheduled trip to Asia, as the White House announced Thursday night that visits to Indonesia and Brunei would be canceled, as Secretary of State John Kerry will instead lead the U.S. delegation. "The ...
No path right now to a shutdown deal
Even before Congressional leaders went to the White House on Wednesday afternoon, there didn't seem to be any easy way to end the legislative standoff in Washington, D.C. that has resulted in a government shutdown. And when you talk to Republicans in the Congress, you get the feeling they don't ...
Shutdown: Day Two
As the sun rose in Washington, D.C. on a second day of a government shutdown, the White House announced that President Obama would cancel stops in Malaysia and the Philippines, shortening a trip to Asia scheduled for next week, as the political fallout continues over a government shutdown. Down the ...
Congress stumbles into a shutdown
It was a quiet group of lawmakers who left the floor of the House just before 1:30 am after a very long Monday at work. There was little in the way of chest thumping or back slapping amongst Republicans who had forced their leadership into a round of legislative chicken ...
The budget mess in Congress
As we count down to midnight Monday night and a possible government shutdown, remember that we are fighting over how to fund the government for only a few months. Not for a full fiscal year, but just until mid-October under a funding plan from Democrats and to mid-November from the ...
Weekend of work ahead for Congress
As expected, the Senate on Friday approved a stop gap budget plan from Democrats that dropped Republican efforts to block money for the Obama health law, as a deal to avoid a government shutdown remained elusive in the halls of Congress. "I don't know of anyone who wants to shutdown ...
GOP divisions spill onto Senate floor
There is nothing new about sharp debate on the House and Senate floor. Usually though, it is between members of different parties. But on Thursday afternoon, the divisions among Republicans were showcased for all to see in an internal battle over a plan to fund the government. Reporters have been ...
Senate moves to speed up budget debate
Looking for a deal to avoid a government shutdown, Senators agreed Wednesday night to officially start debate on a House-passed bill to fund the government, as Democrats offered a plan that would not include language to block funding for the Obama health law. "We’ll be back tomorrow hoping that we ...
Senate takes first step on stop-gap budget
Despite sharp divisions over the best way to avoid a government shutdown, the Senate voted 100-0 on the first procedural vote related to a House-passed stop gap budget bill that would both keep the government running into mid-December and block money for the Obama health law. The vote came an ...
Feds roll out cost details on health insurance
With the clock ticking to open enrollment next week for those who need to buy health insurance, the Obama Administration today released detailed figures on how much it will cost to buy insurance in the new Obama health law exchanges. "Premiums before tax credits will be more than 16 percent ...
Cruz starts making records for Senate speech
After taking the floor at 2:41 pm on Tuesday afternoon, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) spoke through the night on the Senate floor, and just before sunrise in Washington, D.C., the effort now has given him the fifth longest speech in Senate history. With help from a series of Senators through ...
Senate staffers told to delay health law signup
With the start of open enrollment just one week away on October 1, staffers in the U.S. Senate are being told to hold off on signing up for health insurance coverage, as details of their coverage plan still hasn't been finalized by federal officials. "IMPORTANT Health Insurance Information," was the ...
Some talk of avoiding government shutdown
Even as the start of the work week in the Senate featured sharp exchanges and calls for action by both political parties, the seeds of a bipartisan deal to avoid a government shutdown began to take shape - but was by no means a guarantee. "In the course of the ...
Feds question grant spending by Atlanta
In a detailed 96 page report, the U.S. Justice Department said the City of Atlanta may have mismanaged hundreds of thousands of dollars in "Weed and Seed" grants from 2007-2010, charging that government officials were unable to document how money was used, and in some cases never gave investigators any ...
Budget, shutdown debate shifts to Senate
If Republicans are going to defund the Obama health law as part of a stop gap budget plan, they will have to find some Democrats to support that idea in the Senate; but a review of Democratic Senators finds few who might be inclined to join that GOP cause. Think ...
House approves GOP stop gap budget
Ignoring a veto threat and declarations that their bill was "dead on arrival" in the U.S. Senate, Republicans in the House on Friday approved a temporary budget plan to keep the government open while also moving to block funding for the Obama health reform law. "We had a victory today ...
House GOP takes aim at Obamacare
After a rebellion of more conservative Republicans torpedoed work last week in the House on a stop gap budget plan, GOP leaders decided to go "all-in" with Tea Party lawmakers, adding provisions to a temporary budget that would defund the Obama health reform law and lay down a marker in ...
Congress pushes Pentagon on financial audit
As lawmakers in the Congress wrestle with each other over how much to spend on next year's budget, another fiscal year is coming to a close where the Pentagon has once again not been able to put in place accounting procedures that can fully track its over $500 billion budget. ...
Questions raised about military base security
Hours after a lone gunman killed twelve people at a U.S. military facility in Washington, D.C., Congress demanded to know what military investigators had found in a recently finished report about base security, which evidently in part reviewed security choices made by the military at the Washington Navy Yard. In ...
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