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Just days before winning the race for speaker of the House last week, Representative Mike Johnson of Louisiana sent a letter to colleagues laying out a plan to complete the [...]

Like the president's previous budgets, his latest proposal made no mention of any tax or spending increases linked to the program, which he had promised to shore up during his [...]

CROYDON, N.H. -- The tiny New Hampshire town of Croydon fits the New England of the imagination, with its cozy general store, one-room schoolhouse and local museum open by appointment. [...]

The president's budget addresses the main attack lines that Republicans are using against him and his Democratic allies in Congress in the run-up to the midterm congressional elections. WASHINGTON -- [...]

Lawmakers want detailed estimates on the effects of the big Democratic bill, but that can take longer than they think, slowing the process. When Democratic House moderates raised their latest [...]

Budget experts say true cost of legislation could be $4 trillion as lawmakers rely on sleights of hand to bring down the price tag. WASHINGTON -- At an impromptu news [...]

Detailed estimates show the budget bill was even bigger than first thought, which makes getting it below $2 trillion that much tougher. As Democrats in Congress debate how to pare [...]

Americans of a certain age may remember J. Wellington Wimpy, a droll character from Popeye cartoons. ''I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today,'' Wimpy would periodically implore passers-by. [...]

The messages take aim at Democrats by name as part of a broad effort to undermine landmark climate legislation that now hangs in the balance in Congress. The ads appear [...]

At the heart of a budget bill is a powerful mechanism that would cut the country's greenhouse gas emissions, which are fueling climate change. WASHINGTON -- The coming weeks on [...]

With moderates balking, Speaker Nancy Pelosi was working to secure their support for the budget. Democrats ultimately scrapped tentative plans for a vote late Monday. WASHINGTON -- Democratic leaders worked [...]

The House returns to Washington on Monday to try to win passage of a measure needed to protect a $3.5 trillion social policy bill from a filibuster, but fractures in [...]

The letter from nine Democrats, enough to block passage, threatens their party's two-track plan to pass both a $3.5 trillion social policy budget blueprint and an infrastructure bill. WASHINGTON -- [...]

The blueprint, which would expand health care, provide free preschool and community college, and fund climate change programs, passed along party lines and faces an arduous path ahead. WASHINGTON -- [...]

Once again, the Senate will begin a marathon ''vote-a-rama,'' dealing with dozens of nonbinding amendments before the one vote that counts, passage of a $3.5 trillion budget blueprint. WASHINGTON -- [...]

Party leaders plan to include top priorities like immigration and labor policies in their budget plan in a bid to get them past Republican opposition. WASHINGTON -- Democrats in Congress [...]

WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson was subjected to a full day of rough, bipartisan criticism on Tuesday as senators from both parties denounced the Trump administration's plans [...]

WASHINGTON -- Hours before the deadline for another government shutdown on Thursday night, President Obama ducked out of the photo line at a White House holiday party to plead by [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Senate on Friday struggled to pass a $1.1 trillion spending package notable for its expansive spending on military and disease fighting abroad, as well as its scaling [...]

WASHINGTON -- The near collapse of a crucial government-wide funding bill that now faces a Senate test underscored a fundamental problem with Congress -- the lost art of compromise. With [...]

Many Senate hearings are mere theater, but one that took place on July 16, 2009, mattered. With Congress in the midst of writing the bill that became Obamacare, senators asked [...]

WASHINGTON -- Next year, House Republicans will try again to transform Medicare and Medicaid, repeal the Affordable Care Act, shrink domestic spending and substantially cut the highest tax rates through [...]

There is one unmistakably good piece of news on the budget deficit this election season, but self-proclaimed deficit hawks in the Republican Party have no grounds to boast about it: [...]

Even if Republicans take the Senate this year, gaining control of both houses of Congress, they won't gain much in conventional terms: They're already able to block legislation, and they [...]

WASHINGTON -- As President Obama nears a decision on taking broad executive action to reshape the nation's immigration system, Republicans are threatening to force a confrontation over what they describe [...]

WASHINGTON -- Representative Rodney Davis won his House seat in 2012 by barely a thousand votes, making him a leading candidate as Target No. 1 for Democrats who are eager [...]

The Republican budget for 2015, released Tuesday by Representative Paul Ryan, the chairman of the House Budget Committee, will never come close to being law, so it doesn't have to [...]

President Obama's 2015 budget won't survive the solid wall of Republican opposition in Congress, but that doesn't mean it's a useless document. Virtually every section is an important illustration of [...]

WASHINGTON -- President Obama sent Congress a $3.9 trillion budget request on Tuesday that stands as a platform for Democrats to run on in this election year, full of policies [...]

WASHINGTON -- When President Obama releases his proposed annual budget on Tuesday, he will grab his best opportunity of the year to show, in one comprehensive package of hard numbers [...]

The phony budget games finally came to an end this week. After years of trying to entice Republicans into serious negotiations over a fiscal deal -- years of instant rejection [...]

WASHINGTON -- It was a moment of real drama in a chamber known for its somnambulism. Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, counted votes on his hand, at [...]

WASHINGTON -- After the shutdown, the filibusters and years of stalled bills, it was the actual passage of legislation this week that revealed the true depth of congressional dysfunction. The [...]

WEST MIFFLIN, Pa. -- As President Obama took to the road on Wednesday to promote an ''opportunity agenda'' that he vowed to enact with or without Congress, lawmakers began sorting [...]

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, seeking to prod recalcitrant lawmakers to take action after a rash of embarrassing corruption scandals in Albany, plans to use his budget proposal this week to [...]

WASHINGTON -- With the next budget deadline just weeks away, top lawmakers said this week that they had made significant progress negotiating a huge government-wide spending bill that gives the [...]