Topic: U.S. House Of Representatives
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican congressional leaders on Wednesday declined to say whether they will participate in budget talks led by the White House to overcome a bitter partisan divide on federal spending.House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell told ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives will likely issue its own defense of a federal law abandoned by the White House that defines marriage as being between a man and a woman, House Speaker John Boehner said on Monday.President Barack Obama ...
The White House warned a looming US government shutdown "would be bad for the economy" as it urged feuding lawmakers to reach a spending compromise by a March 4 deadline."All of us agree that a government shutdown would be bad for the ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican leaders in the House of Representatives on Friday proposed to avoid a looming government shutdown with a two-week extension of funding that includes $4 billion in spending cuts.Democrats want any stopgap measure, needed to avert a shutdown by ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The risk of a government shutdown appeared to ease on Tuesday after a top Republican backed passing a stopgap measure to keep programs running, although at a reduced level, and the White House said it expected a shutdown to ...
A grueling and already angry US Congress battle over painful spending cuts escalated Friday amid growing concerns that the world's richest country hurtled towards a government shutdown.The US House of Representatives' Republican leaders aimed to wrap up the fight and vote late ...
The US House of Representatives was on track to approve slashing 61 billion dollars in government spending in a measure that makes deep cuts to global US aid in the name of austerity.Lawmakers in the Republican-led chamber have been at work since ...
The US House of Representatives on Thursday was on track to approve slashing 61 billion dollars in government spending in a measure that makes deep cuts to global US aid in the name of austerity.Lawmakers in the Republican-led chamber have been at ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A married congressman abruptly quit Congress on Wednesday after revelations that he had sent flirtatious messages and a bare-chested photograph of himself to another woman on a prominent Internet site.Republican Representative Chris Lee, 46, issued a statement apologizing for ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A married congressman abruptly quit Congress Wednesday after revelations that he had sent flirtatious messages and a bare-chested photograph of himself to another woman on a prominent Internet site.Republican Representative Chris Lee, 46, issued a statement apologizing for his ...
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