Congress

Budget Battles

  • Tea Party Pressures Boehner to Flip on Tax Cuts

    By Eric Pianin

    Late last week, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, seemingly supported a Senate-passed compromise to extend a payroll tax cut and unemployment insurance for two months, but that was before he got an...

  • Congress: New Ethics Violations Charged

    By LARRY MARGASAK, Associated Press

    Congressional investigators said Monday that four House members received VIP discounted loans from the former Countrywide Financial Corp., the lender whose subprime mortgages was largely responsible...

  • New Gov't Shutdown Averted with $1.1 Trillion Deal

    By Eric Pianin and Jennifer Depaul

    After weeks of intense haggling and yet another threat of a government shutdown, Congress finally agreed to a major $1.18 trillion spending measure to keep the government fully operating through the...

  • Federal Shutdown Averted

    By DAVID ESPO, Associated Press

    Congressional negotiators reached agreement Thursday on a compromise spending bill to avert a weekend federal shutdown. They also worked toward a deal renewing the payroll tax cut and unemployment...

  • Agreement Close on $1 Trillion Spending Bill

    By Andrew Taylor

    Bipartisan agreement is near on a massive $1 trillion-plus year-end spending package and should be reached in time avert a possible government shutdown this weekend, Senate leaders said Thursday. The...