Oct 29 New poll gives McAuliffe big lead in Virginia By Terence Burlij Virginia Tech students attend a Monday event in Blacksburg, Va. for gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe. Photo by Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images With one week to go until Election Day in Virginia, Democrat Terry McAuliffe has expanded… Continue reading
Oct 23 Parties at odds over health care law By Terence Burlij Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images House Democrats are getting a debrief on the health care law Wednesday, following a series of problems with the rollout of an insurance exchange website… Continue reading
Oct 18 With shutdown over, GOP looks inward By Terence Burlij Visitors check out the newspaper pages at the Newseum as the federal government reopens. Photo by Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post via Getty Images If Thursday was back to business in Washington, Friday is back to normal. Budget conferees… Continue reading
Oct 17 Shutdown ends, fiscal and political challenges remain Tourists visit the reopened Lincoln memorial Thursday morning. Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images The federal government is back in business. Not long after midnight, President Barack Obama signed a short-term funding measure reopening federal agencies that had been… Continue reading
Oct 16 Senate leaders pick up the pieces after House plan goes bust By Terence Burlij 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… Continue reading
Oct 14 Senate leaders still searching for a deal By Terence Burlij 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… Continue reading
Oct 11 Positive signs but still no deal Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images Weeks of brinkmanship gave way Thursday to an offer from Republicans to raise the debt ceiling and a face-to-face meeting between President Barack Obama and 20 House GOP leaders. But with no firm deal… Continue reading
Oct 09 More tough talk in shutdown stalemate By Terence Burlij 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… Continue reading
Oct 08 Congress taking political fallout as shutdown continues By Terence Burlij 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… Continue reading
Oct 03 Shutdown talks end with more finger-pointing, no agreement By Terence Burlij 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… Continue reading