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With three days to go before the U.S. is forced to take drastic action to avoid default on its debt obligations, you’d think congressional negotiators would be frantically looking for a way to avoid disaster. Apparently not. Senate leaders at the center of the negotiations are not speaking. For much of past week, Senate Majority [...]
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell are not chatty men by nature. Notoriously monosyllabic, either man could probably compete for a world record in shortest average phone conversation. But that doesn’t mean they’re not talking now. Although not fast friends, Reid and McConnell have one of the most functional professional relationships [...]
House Republicans passed Speaker John Boehner’s debt bill 218-210 on Friday, eking out little more than a symbolic victory in the heated debt-ceiling debate by sending the measure to the Democratic Senate, where it was hastily tabled in a 59-41 vote. Friday night’s are a precursor to a frenzied weekend of negotiations in Washington as [...]
Politico flags another sign of the fissures within the House GOP: Republican Study Commission member Tom Rooney, a two-term congressman from Florida, has written a letter blasting Jim Jordan, the group’s chairman and a voluble critic of the Boehner debt bill, just days after an RSC staffer was nabbed sending emails that urged conservative advocacy [...]
When Republicans showed up to their pivotal powwow in the Capitol basement on Friday morning, it was no surprise to see the freshmen of the South Carolina delegation arrive together. Of the five GOP members from the Palmetto State, four — Jeff Duncan, Trey Gowdy, Mick Mulvaney and Tim Scott — are rookie representatives. Since [...]
House Republican leaders have sweetened Speaker John Boehner’s debt-ceiling plan to make it more palatable to conservative holdouts, and rank-and-file members said the tweaks would likely be enough to give Boehner enough votes to pass his bill later on Friday. A night after a dramatic rebuke to Boehner’s stewardship of the House, House Republican leaders [...]
House Speaker John Boehner failed to muster enough GOP votes to pass his plan to raise the debt limit on Thursday night, throwing into question the fate of Boehner’s proposal as well as that of his speakership. Republican leaders must now rewrite the legislation in order to attract more conservatives as they try to pass [...]
House Republican leaders came up short Thursday night in their effort to find enough votes to pass Speaker John Boehner’s bill to raise the debt ceiling, delaying consideration of the doomed bill until Friday and laying bare the deep divisions within the balkanized GOP conference. After hours of debate on Boehner’s bill, known as the Budget [...]
Updated, 10:00 PM House Republican leaders have delayed a pivotal vote on Speaker John Boehner’s proposal to cut the deficit and raise the federal debt ceiling, suggesting they may still be scrambling for votes after three days of whipping wavering members. Laena Fallon, a spokeswoman for House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, said the vote will [...]
If it weren’t for the late-night jokes and the prime-time press conferences and the cable networks’ ticking countdown clocks to Debt Armageddon, you wouldn’t have thought the name of a post office was at stake in Congress on Thursday, let alone the full faith and credit of the United States. House Speaker John Boehner was [...]
