As could be expected, there were plenty of Tea Party Republicans available to the media these last few days to threaten another government shutdown in response to President Obama’s stick in

Explosive leaks and rumors of the White House weighing an executive order on immigration are stirring up renewed partisan passions on Capitol Hill, putting the leadership abilities of the Republican

There is no way to overstate just how stunning the Republican sweep was across the electoral map last night. The GOP won every single closely contested Senate race but one,

With the US mid-term elections barely five days away, all the momentum and polling across the key battleground states are pointing to the Republican Party winning back control of the Senate

With less than 40 days remaining before the November mid-term elections, the balance of the Senate remains uncertain with almost every one of the key Senate races too close to call.

This Labor Day weekend just past opens the political homestretch to the U.S. November mid-term elections. With the House certain to stay firmly in Republican hands, the focus is naturally on

The election of a party’s Whip would not ordinarily command much attention, but in the wake of Eric Cantor’s shock defeat in a Virginia primary last week, tomorrow’s House Republican

Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s surprise defeat yesterday in the Virginia 7th District GOP primary was nothing less than stunning.  There is now a 4pm special meeting scheduled of

The Senate put off a final vote on the bill to extend benefits for the long-term unemployed until debate resumes late Monday next week. That lack of enthusiasm to stay in

Assuming the Senate and House soon reconcile their differences over the Ukraine assistance package this week, Majority Leader Harry Reid has promised to turn the Senate’s attention to S.2148, the

So quipped House Speaker John Boehner when asked about the prospects for House passage of “The Temporary Debt Limit Extension Act” that included two conditions to reverse a cut in

House members are returning to the capital this afternoon with crucial Republican House conference meetings tonight and tomorrow morning that will determine the fate and timing of the bill to

This morning’s Nonfarm Payroll was not a great one — again — but as much as it was the less than stellar numbers themselves, it was probably more because it

It was only with the Federal Open Market Committee statement out of the way this afternoon, that we started to think about the President’s State of the Union address last

Going to the well again of offsetting spending this year by promising not to spend the same amount on Medicare ten years from now was a political non-starter as soon

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