18 Oct DC Update: Capitol Hill Fiscal Fights Won’t Fade With Deal
Congress, sharply divided and bruised by three weeks of battling over the partial government shutdown, now faces the task of coming up with a broad...
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10 Oct Government Shutdown, Debt Limit Battles Continue Amid Hints Of Short-Term Truce
President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner are increasing the pressure on each other to bend in their deadlock over the federal debt limit...
04 Oct FDRA Insight: Government Shutdown and Footwear
Barricades have been erected around the monuments in Washington and in some federal areas around the FDRA's office, which is strategically situated between the White...
03 Oct Government Shutdown Shows No Signs Of Ending As Congress Remains In Stalemate
The political stare-down on Capitol Hill shows no signs of easing, leaving federal government functions from informational websites, to national parks, to processing veterans' claims...
02 Oct U.S. Government Shuts Down in Budget Impasse
More than 800,000 federal workers across the country are bracing for an uncertain financial future in the days ahead as many government agencies prepared to...
27 Sep Postal Rate Hike Proposal Faces Senate Scrutiny
Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe's appearance Thursday before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee comes one day after the post office said it wanted...
19 Sep Government shutdown moves closer as House sets vote to defund Obamacare
House Republican leaders announced Wednesday morning that they would take a risky double-barreled attack on President Obama’s health-care law, making it the cornerstone fight over...
10 Sep Syria resolution could stall Congress’s work on divisive domestic issues
If the House and Senate can agree on a stopgap funding bill this week, the measure probably would last until Dec. 15 and clear up...
10 Sep Amazon lobbies heavily for Internet sales tax
One sign of the bill's priority for Amazon in this Congress is the company's visibly stepped-up presence on Capitol Hill. The company has spent $1.7...
27 Aug U.S. faces mid-October deadline to raise debt limit
The announcement, which comes at the early end of what many in Washington were anticipating, creates a new crisis point in the nation’s protracted fight...