Congress

Budget Battles

  • Debt Panel Members Prompt Doubts

    By ALAN FRAM

    WASHINGTON (AP) — A conservative Texas Republican congressman has been chosen by House Speaker John Boehner to co-chair a powerful new committee tasked to find a bipartisan plan to slash the federal...

  • Boehner Names GOP Members to 'Super' Debt Panel

    By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER

    WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker John Boehner has named GOP Rep. Jeb Hensarling of Texas to co-chair a powerful new committee that will try to come up with a bipartisan plan this fall to reduce the...

  • Jobs Bills Languish in 'Do-Nothing' Congress

    By JIM ABRAMS

    When Congress gets back to work after Labor Day it will have the chance to achieve something that has largely eluded it for the entire year, passing legislation that might actually create jobs.

  • Former Approps Leader Mark Hatfield Dies

    By Emma Brown, The Washington Post

    Former senator Mark O. Hatfield of Oregon, whose liberal Republican politics during five terms in Congress made him an increasingly rare breed within his party, and who used his chairmanship of the...

  • Origins of a Debt Shutdown

    By This article was reported by Lori Montgomery and PAUL KANE and Brady Dennis and ALEC MacGILLIS and David Fahrenthold and Rosalind Helderman and FELICIA SONMEZ and Dan Balz. It was written by Dennis and MacGillis

    In mid-January, newly installed as the GOP House majority leader, Virginia’s Eric Cantor rose to the podium inside a spacious hotel ballroom to deliver a message to his troops, including the 87...