Oct 28 Watch 8:33 Treasury Secretary Lew on Congress ‘coming to terms’ with the debt limit By PBS News Hour The bipartisan budget deal passed by the House is the product of negotiations between Congressional leaders and the White House. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew sits down with Gwen Ifill to discuss how Congress achieved its moment of breakthrough, plus a… Continue watching
Oct 28 Watch 2:24 Approving budget deal, House ties up loose ends for incoming speaker By PBS News Hour Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, the new GOP nominee to replace John Boehner as Speaker of the House, laid out his first policy position Wednesday: supporting the new bipartisan budget deal. The House passed the agreement, averting a looming federal default… Continue watching
Oct 28 House passes bipartisan budget plan, debt limit increase By Associated Press The House has passed a bipartisan budget-and-debt deal that prevents an unprecedented government default. Continue reading
Oct 28 Everything you need to know about Medicare Advantage this open enrollment season By Philip Moeller Medicare Advantage plans tout stability and broader coverage in 2016. Continue reading
Oct 27 Watch 6:29 How Congressional leaders made a budget crisis breakthrough By PBS News Hour Trying the clear the deck for his replacement, outgoing Speaker of the House John Boehner announced a tentative two-year budget deal that would boost defense and domestic programs and lift the debt ceiling through the spring of 2017. Political director… Continue watching
Sep 30 Watch 4:04 Averting shutdown, budget stopgap sets up Congress for bigger fight By PBS News Hour Congress passed a bill to extend funding until December, hours before the deadline for a possible government shutdown. But the sharply divided vote in the House only seems to set up a potentially bigger fight later on. Political director Lisa… Continue watching
Sep 24 Democrats poised to filibuster stopgap funding measure By Andrew Taylor, Associated Press The Senate was poised to vote on legislation that would keep the government open beyond next Wednesday's deadline, but at a price Democrats are certain to reject: stripping taxpayer money from Planned Parenthood. Continue reading
Sep 05 Cooperation in Congress key to tackling full fall agenda By Andrew Taylor, Alan Fram, Associated Press Congress returns on Tuesday with a critical need for a characteristic rarely evident through a contentious spring and summer - cooperation between Republicans and President Barack Obama. Continue reading
Jun 25 Veterans Affairs says agency faces $2.5 billion budget shortfall By Matthew Daly, Associated Press The Department of Veterans Affairs said Thursday it faces a budget shortfall of more than $2.5 billion, mainly because of increased demand by veterans for health care, including new life-saving treatments for Hepatitis C. Continue reading
Jun 09 House GOP measure could cut Amtrak budget by $242 million By Andrew Taylor, Associated Press WASHINGTON — Legislation that would cut Amtrak's budget by $242 million was working its way through the House, though there's new funding for video cameras inside locomotive cabs to record train engineers to help investigators get to the bottom of… Continue reading