By
Amanda Becker
| July 8, 2011, 4:38 p.m.
A staffer in the Flagstaff office of Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) who used his Twitter account to trumpet the downfall of former Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) resigned Friday after Roll Call discovered violent messages he tweeted.
By
John Stanton, Jessica Brady
| July 8, 2011, 2:39 p.m.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on Friday returned to the Capitol from a one-on-one meeting with President Barack Obama and reiterated her position that Medicare and Social Security are out of bounds as part of any deal to raise the nation’s debt limit.
By
Neda Semnani
| July 8, 2011, 12:44 p.m.
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (Wash.), vice chairwoman of the House Republican Conference, on Thursday announced the winners of the House GOP New Media Challenge.
By
Jessica Brady
| July 8, 2011, 10:58 a.m.
Speaker John Boehner maintained Friday that the two parties are still arms-length apart on reaching a debt ceiling deal. The Ohio Republican said “there is no agreement in private or in public.” He added, “It’s not like there’s some imminent deal that’s about to happen.”
By
Jessica Brady
| July 8, 2011, 10:55 a.m.
The House scrapped its plans to recess the week of July 18 as Members on both sides of the Capitol continue to work through debt and budget matters.
By
Steven T. Dennis
| July 7, 2011, 6:47 p.m.
Senate Budget Chairman Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) won’t unveil his budget to the public this week after all, aides said Thursday.
By
Jessica Brady
| July 7, 2011, 4:41 p.m.
The House narrowly voted Thursday to ban financial assistance to rebel leaders in Libya, marking the first time the chamber has voted to impose any funding limitations on the U.S. military effort in the North African nation.
By
Jessica Brady
| July 7, 2011, 3:50 p.m.
House Democrats continued to dig in their heels against cuts to Social Security and other entitlement programs Thursday as Congressional leaders and the White House continued to search for a bipartisan deal to increase the debt limit.
By
Meredith Shiner, Steven T. Dennis
| July 7, 2011, 1:35 p.m.
President Barack Obama told a bipartisan group of Congressional leaders Thursday that he will only sign into law a budget deal that extends the debt limit past the 2012 elections.
By
Neda Semnani
| July 7, 2011, 12:52 p.m.
Hey everyone! Adorable baby Republicans are running for Congress!
By
Meredith Shiner
| July 7, 2011, 12:22 p.m.
Senate Democrats, already divided on how to deal with Social Security, were caught off guard Thursday by a new push from the White House to include the senior safety net in a larger debt and deficit reduction deal.
By
Jessica Brady
| July 7, 2011, 10 a.m.
Members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, betting that their votes will be needed to pass a debt ceiling deal, attempted to insert themselves into the debate Thursday by outlining a host of demands.
By
Neda Semnani
| July 7, 2011, Midnight
A very important press release was sent Wednesday to let the world know that the U.S. Manufacturing Technology Consumption report will now be known as the U.S. Manufacturing Technology Orders report.
By
Neda Semnani
| July 7, 2011, Midnight
President Bill Clinton spoke at the Campus Progress National Conference on Wednesday, and he was kind of a firework.
By
Neda Semnani
| July 7, 2011, Midnight
Rachel Campos-Duffy, of “The Real World: San Francisco” fame and wife to Rep. Sean Duffy (R-Wis.), really wishes Casey Anthony’s parents were more like her own — and she is pretty adamant about it.
By
Neda Semnani
| July 7, 2011, Midnight
“Politicians, get in shape for your next scandalous photo.”
By
Meredith Shiner
| July 7, 2011, Midnight
Senate Republicans on Wednesday openly mocked a Democratic nonbinding resolution on the deficit, deriding it as “cynical,” “political” and even “meaningless.” But behind closed doors, rank-and-file Members plotted to support open debate of the bill in order to play much the same game.
By
Steven T. Dennis, Anna Palmer
| July 7, 2011, Midnight
Key players in debt ceiling talks spent the day before a White House meeting on the topic discussing tax proposals that wouldn’t reduce the deficit, shooting down plans from their colleagues, releasing far-afield budget blueprints and trading tweets.
By
Meredith Shiner
| July 6, 2011, 6:35 p.m.
In a return to his “maverick” style, Sen. John McCain took to the Senate floor Wednesday to join the growing GOP chorus calling for revenue reform in the ongoing deficit reduction and debt ceiling debate.
By
Anna Palmer, Jessica Brady
| July 6, 2011, 2:28 p.m.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor pushed back Wednesday against President Barack Obama’s assertion that bipartisan negotiations on the debt limit broke down over tax loopholes and special tax breaks for industry, insisting that House Republicans would be willing to discuss the issue.
