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 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
Oct 26 Boehner’s last deal: 2-year budget, debt ceiling By Andrew Taylor and Erica Werner, Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Speaker John Boehner is pressing ahead with one last deal as he heads for the exits, pushing to finalize a far-reaching, two-year budget agreement with President Barack Obama before handing Congress' top job over to Rep. Paul Ryan… Continue reading
Jun 11 What Congress can learn from the general store owner who crafted U.S. borrowing limits By Bill White Former deputy energy secretary and mayor of Houston Bill White details how America's borrowing used to be manageable and how it can be once more -- if only the federal government would divide spending bills into parts financed by taxes… Continue reading
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Feb 12 Senate passes debt limit bill for Obama By Andrew Taylor, Associated Press Must-pass legislation to allow the government to borrow money to pay its bills has cleared Congress for President Barack Obama's signature. The Senate approved the measure by a near party-line 55-43 vote. All of the "aye" votes came from Obama's… Continue reading
Feb 12 Boehner throws in the towel on debt ceiling fight By Terence Burlij, Simone Pathe House Speaker John Boehner listened to his inner Kenny Rogers Tuesday, abandoning his search for a debt ceiling compromise that could win favor with his members and forcing Democrats to come up with most of the votes needed to pass… Continue reading
Feb 11 Watch News Wrap: House votes to raise debt ceiling without conditions By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Tuesday, House Republicans gave up the hope of adding a provision on military pensions to legislation that would raise the debt ceiling. Also, in her first public comments as the chair of the Federal Reserve, Janet… Continue watching
Feb 11 After day of drama, House raises the debt ceiling without conditions By Quinn Bowman Fewer than 24 hours after House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, tried to sell fellow Republicans on a plan to increase the nation’s borrowing limit with a modest condition attached, Democrats got exactly what they wanted: a no-strings-attached vote to raise… Continue reading