House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s double negative in asserting “we don’t want nothing” on a vote to increase the federal debt ceiling issue was a grammatically awkward but emphatic

Confident after this morning that they have at least 180 Republican votes in favor of last night’s “Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013,” House Speaker John Boehner and the Republican leadership

Despite the optimistic headlines that a budget conference committee agreement will be unveiled some time today, we would urge caution in assuming a deal will indeed come together. And we

It has often seemed that Budget Conference Committee co-chairs Paul Ryan and Patty Murray were working as hard to lower expectations as they were laboriously working towards a budget deal

The first meeting of the 29 member House-Senate Budget Conference Committee is set, appropriately enough, for October 30, the same day the Federal Open Market Committee issues its October meeting

It would be difficult to downplay what a damaging if not devastating debacle took place in the House last night. For Speaker John Boehner to be forced to pull the

We are getting a flood of incoming calls asking whether House Speaker John Boehner has the necessary 217 minimum number of votes needed to pass the combined Continuing Resolution and

No small amount of optimism dominated the headlines this morning after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid took to the wires last night to reassure that he and Senate Minority Leader

Looking over their shoulders at the debris left in the House after the Tea Party had shredded whatever remaining leverage House Speaker John Boehner had, Senate Republicans spent most of

This morning, that Irish joke keeps coming to mind about asking for directions and being told well, I wouldn’t start from here. *** It will not be pretty to get

Just a quick update to put into context the move this morning by House Speaker John Boehner to put a clean bill to extend the debt ceiling to November 22

Things seem to be moving steadily forward in the direction we outlined earlier in the week (SGH 10/7/13, “US Fiscal: This Week’s Plan”), giving grounds for an ever cautious optimism. ***

We believe there is a very good chance House Speaker John Boehner will use his press conference slated for 4:30 today to make a “counter offer” to President Obama’s overture

This morning has been dominated by meetings by both parties on both sides of Capitol Hill, with each side plotting next moves and working to keep its ranks unified. On

In the first week of the partial government shutdown, embattled House Speaker John Boehner mostly maneuvered to buy time to keep his House GOP conference unified while exhausting the mutiny

For most of this morning President Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid have followed through on last night’s mostly unproductive White House meeting to pound away at House Speaker

Two quick points to make as the Congressional leadership heads down from the Hill to their 5:30 meeting with President Obama at the White House. First, news is spreading across

There has been no small amount of speculation in the media and market commentary that the now almost inevitable shutdown of the government tonight may alter the political dynamics enough

The Senate is moving quickly, surprisingly so, to pass its amended Continuing Resolution H.JR. 59 as early as this afternoon. It does, however, face an unforeseen need to win Republican

If anything else, you have to give Texas Senator Ted Cruz credit for stamina and good theater. By the time we will be getting this report out, he will have