Mitch McConnell
No budging at the budget-cuts deadline
Gridlocked once more, President Barack Obama and Republican congressional leaders refused to budge in their budget standoff Friday as $85 billion in across-the-board... Read more »
Odds against him, President Obama still betting on big sequestration deal
A fiscal deadline all but blown, President Barack Obama says he once again wants to seek a big fiscal deal that would raise taxes and trim billions from expensive and... Read more »
Senate Dems' sequestration replacement plan raises deficit by billions, then lowers it
White House-backed legislation in the Senate to replace $85 billion in across-the-board spending cuts would raise the deficit through the end of the budget year by... Read more »
As cuts loom, is shutdown next?
With big, automatic budget cuts about to kick in, House Republicans are turning to mapping strategy for the next showdown just a month away, when a government shutdown... Read more »
President Obama sets meeting with top lawmakers on the same day budget cuts kick in
The White House conceded Wednesday that efforts to avoid automatic budget cuts are unlikely to succeed before they kick in and is initiating new talks with... Read more »
U.S. legislators come to Hobby Lobby's defense in contraception lawsuit
A group of U.S. senators and representatives came to the defense of Hobby Lobby this week, accusing the Obama administration of violating a federal law the legislators... Read more »
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