Can The Democrats Retake The House Next Year?
Steve Israel's talking point is "problem solvers." He repeats it like a mantra. But there's something else interesting that he said in his interview ...
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3 Things Blocking Immigration Reform in the House
After a Senate committee passed the Gang of Eight immigration bill this week, audience members at the hearing chanted, "Sí se puede." That might not ...
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Gay rights advances not evident in immigration bill debate
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Three reasons Congress is broken
Why is Congress so helpless and so hopeless? We’ve heard all the fashionable explanations: partisan gridlock; special interests and the impact of ...
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After taking 5th, Lois Lerner could be called again to testify before the House on IRS
Lois Lerner, who was in charge of the Internal Revenue Service office that improperly subjected conservative organizations to additional scrutiny, ...
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Video: The House is letting banks write their own laws now
In May, the House Financial Service Committee passed a bill that would create a loophole to derivative regulation in Dodd-Frank.
Cokie Roberts’ Father Was A Giant In the House
Hale Boggs was a legend in Louisiana and in Washington. Not only was he Majority Leader of the House who tragically disappeared in a plane crash, but ...
The Cabal That Quietly Took Over the House
The Statue of Freedom atop the Capitol done is silhouetted by the rising sun on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 24, 2013.
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Greg Sargent: Why Dems haven't (completely) given up hope on GOP cooperation
In an interesting paradox, the most ostentatious display of Tea Party intransigence in quite some time is persuading Democrats not to (completely) ...
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Student Loan Bill Gains in the House, Faces Showdown in the Senate
NEW YORK (MainStreet)A bill to reset interest rates on federal student loans for some undergraduates gained in a House vote yesterday to let ...
The House GOP leadership is botching the Benghazi investigation
They oppose the creation of a select committee to investigate the attack, despite the overwhelming support for such a committee among ...
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