Politics Oct 16 Senate leaders pick up the pieces after House plan goes bust Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images Sometimes you seize the day, and sometimes the day seizes you. With the country on the brink of default, House Speaker John Boehner's quixotic campaign to rally his fractious conference behind a last-ditch proposal…
Politics Oct 14 Senate leaders still searching for a deal Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid leaves the Capitol building Sunday. Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images There have been a lot of clocks to watch lately. Monday marks day 14 of a partial government shutdown. The Treasury Department will exhaust its…
Politics Oct 10 GOP leaders open door to new strategy From left, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., Dave Camp, R-Mich., Tom Graves, R-Ga., Ander Crenshaw, R-Fla., and John Carter, R-Texas. Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call After making several runs at defunding or delaying…
Politics Oct 09 More tough talk in shutdown stalemate Photo by Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner dug their heels in further Tuesday, trading verbal barbs at dueling press conferences as the federal government remained closed and the threat of a…
Politics Oct 08 Congress taking political fallout as shutdown continues Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images Wait for it ... America kind of hates Congress right now. Sure, that may not come as a shock, but a wave of new polling reaffirms that dissatisfaction with lawmakers in Washington has increased…
Politics Oct 03 Shutdown talks end with more finger-pointing, no agreement House Speaker John Boehner talks with White House press after meeting with President Obama and congressional leaders Wednesday. Photo by Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post via Getty Images Before they walked in, the White House made clear there would be…
Politics Oct 02 Congress no closer to deal on day 2 of shutdown The Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge (Dean J. Koepfler/Tacoma News Tribune/MCT via Getty Images) The prospects for a quick resolution to the shutdown dimmed Tuesday as neither side in the fight over funding the government appeared ready to blink. House…
Politics Sep 30 Shutdown Nears As Congress Remains Deadlocked Catheryn Carroll of Washington, D.C. berates House Republicans at a Sunday press conference (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) Tick, tock. Congress careened toward a shutdown Monday, with lawmakers running out of time and options to keep the government from…
Politics Sep 27 House Mulls Next Step Ahead of Senate Vote Photo of U.S. Capitol rotunda by Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images. The Senate appeared set to approve a temporary spending bill Friday afternoon aimed at averting a government shutdown next Tuesday, but what happens after that is anyone's guess.
Politics Sep 24 Senate Readies for Spending Showdown Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid: "Any bill that defunds Obama and his health care law is dead on arrival in the Senate." Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images The bell rang Monday in the opening round of the Senate's fight…