Topic: John Boehner
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congressional leaders have struck a deal to extend key anti-terrorism surveillance tactics for four years, a senior Democratic aide said on Thursday, a move that would avoid a potentially contentious fight over the tactics.The three tactics, initially approved by ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congressional leaders gathered on Tuesday to witness the dedication of a statue of the late former president Gerald Ford in the Capitol Rotunda.The statue is the state of Michigan's placement for the National Statuary Hall Collection in the Capitol."Now ...
US House Speaker John Boehner, on a visit to Baghdad, hailed Iraq's march toward self-governance by year's end, praising it as "a different country" from the violence-ridden recent past."Just four years ago, a terrorist insurgency was killing innocent civilians and wreaking havoc ...
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki insisted Iraqi forces were capable of maintaining security in the country during talks with US House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner in Baghdad on Saturday.Maliki's evening meeting with Boehner and other US officials came around a week after ...
The US Congress on Thursday sent President Barack Obama a bill cutting some $40 billion from domestic programs and foreign aid, a skirmish in a broader war over the cash-strapped government's finances.The Senate voted 81-19 to pass the measure after the House ...
Moving forward, the nation can't afford the GOP's plans for the futureCongress is scheduled to vote later this week on the deal struck late Friday that averted a government shutdown. The proposal, which would cut $38.5 billion in spending from the fiscal ...
A last-gasp deal slashing spending prevented a US government shutdown set for Saturday, ending -- at least for now -- a rancorous budget row between President Barack Obama and his newly empowered Republican foes.Party leaders clinched the agreement, including some $38.5 billion ...
Budget deal avoids shutdownWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The last-minute budget deal President Barack Obama and congressional leaders struck to avert a government shutdown paves the way for what Republicans promised on Saturday will be more spending fights to come. With just over an ...
A dramatic 11th-hour deal slashing spending has staved off a US government shutdown, ending a rancorous budget row between President Barack Obama and his newly empowered Republican foes.Party leaders clinched the agreement, including some $38.5 billion dollars of extra spending cuts, after ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner said on Friday that a deal had been struck on funding the federal government for the rest of the fiscal year that ends on September 30, ending fears of a government shutdown."I am ...
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