Capstone National Partners and Husch Blackwell announce that they have forged a strategic relationship to provide clients with even greater advocacy and public policy expertise in the defense and national security arena. Capstone National Partners, a boutique governmental lobbying firm, and Husch Blackwell, a full-service law firm with 600 attorneys,...
The ducks, they teeter/ Off the long-awaited cliff / Lame! it's just a hill. #FiscalCliffHaikus
With time running short to work out a deal to avert a year-end fiscal crisis, President Obama called Speaker John A. Boehner to the White House on Thursday evening to try to move talks forward even as pessimism mounted that a broad deal could be struck that bridges the substantial...
Democrats look at the political landscape and see a win whether a deal gets cut now or after the country goes over the fiscal cliff. In the worst-case scenario, they say, the House will approve legislation the Senate passed in July extending Bush-era tax cuts for everyone but the rich,...
According to the latest national survey by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, 55% of adults say President Obama is making a serious effort to work with Republicans on a budget and tax deal, while 32% say Republicans are serious, Other national polls have found similar...
As the deadline to avert the fiscal cliff moves closer, a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll shows that 65% of Americans want Congress and the White House to compromise and find a solution that reduces the budget deficit. In order to reach the middle ground, the poll suggests Democrats...