One of the biggest questions in the Senate is how the rules surrounding the filibuster will be changed. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Thursday invoked the "nuclear option" which gives him the option of changing filibuster rules by 51 votes (rather then 67), but this can be done only...
Congress cleared the first installment of disaster aid for victims today – authorizing $9.7 billion – in a 345-67 vote. Republican leaders rushed the legislation to the House floor on the new Congress’s second day after Boehner and House Republicans were pressured (ok, slammed) by NJ Gov Christie and other...
Congress may have just passed its last easy doc fix. The one-year payment patch was passed as part of the fiscal cliff package this week. It offset the $25 billion cost of freezing doctors’ pay rates through a series of small health program cuts. Those cuts have the hospitals grumbling....
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will return to work “for real this time” after being released from the hospital where she was being treated for a blood clot in her brain, Foreign Policy reported.
The battle to get Congress to renew the wind-energy production tax credit before year’s end strained relationships among utilities, splintered the industry’s biggest trade group and is setting up the industry — and its supporters on Capitol Hill — for an even more contentious 2013. Many utilities, environmental groups, and...
Conservative Democrats aligned with the National Rifle Association, shaken by the Newtown school massacre, are reconsidering their opposition to gun controls such as bans on certain assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, writes the National Journal. These Second-Amendment champions could be the key to passing new legislation this year, as could...
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