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Senate Republicans are delaying at least two Cabinet-level nominations with potential effects on industries, complicating President Barack Obama’s second-term agenda.
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The U.S. House has a message for voters who want to cut spending: It passed a bill repealing a long-term health care program that the Obama administration had already dropped, and would bar welfare recipients from spending their benefits in strip clubs and casinos.
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President Barack Obama defended the tax-cut deal he reached with Republican leaders as a pragmatic compromise grounded in the realities of families who otherwise could have seen their taxes rise or jobless benefits halted.
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U.S. lawmakers are using this week’s debate over each party’s fiscal priorities to generate fodder for 2014 congressional election attacks.
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The U.S. Postal Service, demonstrating the depth of its financial abyss, set up a possible showdown with Congress by saying it will stop mail service on Saturdays regardless of whether lawmakers approve.
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The U.S. Postal Service, demonstrating the depth of its financial abyss, set up a possible showdown with Congress by saying it will stop mail service on Saturdays regardless of whether lawmakers approve.
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Sarah Palin ended a lengthy and attention-grabbing political guessing game yesterday with her announcement that she won’t seek the Republican presidential nomination.
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When U.S. House Republican leaders in 2003 were short of votes to pass a $395 billion Medicare prescription drug benefit, they recruited former House Speaker Newt Gingrich for help.
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Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan is returning to the U.S. Congress today to cast a vote that goes against what he has sought as House budget chairman since 2011.
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Republicans and Democrats are squaring off over freezing student-loan interest rates in a partisan fight that resembles lawmakers’ recent confrontation over extending the payroll tax cut.
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