A shutdown last happened in 2018. Could it happen again?
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Lawmakers have given themselves a virtually impossible task – and the stakes are high.
That’s a lot of potential voters behind Swift at her Denver concert on July 14, 2023.
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Pittsburgh’s mayor renamed the city ‘Swiftsburgh’ when the singer’s tour hit town. He’s not the only politician who has publicly fawned over the star.
Members of the House Freedom Caucus speak to reporters on July 14, 2023, hours before the House passed its version of the National Defense Authorization Act.
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The National Defense Authorization Act has long had bipartisan support in both houses of Congress. But that died in the House this year.
Biden speaks to reporters about the tentative accord.
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The deal would raise the ceiling for two years, cap some federal spending and impose new work requirements on certain federal benefits. It still needs the blessing of Congress.
With the House GOP and President Joe Biden locked in a struggle over the debt limit, it’s dark times in the U.S. Capitol.
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How will the House vote on the deal negotiated by the White House and GOP leaders? If they reject it, there are political as well as huge economic risks to debt standoffs in Congress.
Whether or not the U.S. defaults on its debt may depend on the leadership of Joe Biden and Kevin McCarthy.
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Research shows that leaders who can embrace competing demands and focus on the long term are more likely to succeed.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen doesn’t want to look back in anger over a debt deadline missed.
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If the US fails to increase its debt ceiling by June 1, it could be forced into an embarrassing – and hugely costly – default on its obligations.
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Republicans and Democrats may find it harder than ever to reach an agreement on how to tackle the enormous national debt before July.
Speaker Kevin McCarthy said the House would vote on a debt ceiling bill ‘within weeks.’
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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy agreed to raise the debt ceiling – and avoid an unprecedented US default – but only if Democrats agree to freeze spending and agree to several other demands.
A voter casts his ballot at an early voting location in Alexandria, Va., Sept. 26, 2022.
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A loud chorus of Democrats – and some Republicans, too – has for years claimed gerrymandering is costing their party seats in Congress. Is it true?
Speaker Kevin McCarthy at a news conference on Capitol Hill.
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The House of Representatives is breaking norms and establishing a new way for the body to do business.
Reinstituted rules in the U.S. House of Representatives allow members to fire federal staffers and cut programs.
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House Republicans have adopted a rule used periodically over the past 150 years that allows lawmakers to speed up and streamline votes to dismantle federal programs and fire federal employees.
The House GOP under new leader Kevin McCarthy, center in front of flag, adopted rules that included changes to operations of the office that conducts investigations of members.
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House lawmakers created an independent office to conduct ethics investigations. But new changes by the GOP to rules governing the office were just the latest attempt to defang it.
President Joe Biden gestures as he delivers his State of the Union address on February 07, 2023 in Washington, DC.
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How does a State of the Union speech get written? A former White House presidential speechwriter describes the many hands in this process.
Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene has been given a seat on an influential House committee.
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The breadth of the deals House speaker Kevin McCarthy did to gain the post are now becoming clear.
Kevin McCarthy addresses the media during one of his earliest news conferences as speaker of the House of Representatives.
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Despite all the limitations his concessions place on his speakership, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy still has a lot of power.
President Nixon urged the IRS to audit his perceived enemies; Donald Trump wanted to do the same.
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The House GOP is scrutinizing federal investigators for alleged abuses of power. But will they probe abuses that may have been committed by members of their own party?
More jaw-jaw needed to end the GOP speaker war, Mr. McCarthy?
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What happens if GOP holdouts continue to hold out on the speaker position? And what if they don’t?
Republican Kevin McCarthy has not managed to win enough votes to make him speaker of the House, so far.
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Breakaway Republicans are blocking the election of a new speaker of the US House of Representatives.
A Dec. 19, 2022 meeting of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, DC.
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The House Jan. 6 committee’s final report is the latest in a long series of congressional studies that have tried to answer hard questions about government failures and suggest ways to avoid them.