Reports Tagged: US

October 16, 2013

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

October 15, 2013

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

October 15, 2013

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

October 14, 2013

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

October 11, 2013

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

October 10, 2013

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

October 10, 2013

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. ***

October 08, 2013

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

October 08, 2013

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

October 07, 2013

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

October 03, 2013

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

October 02, 2013

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

September 30, 2013

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

September 27, 2013

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

September 25, 2013

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

September 20, 2013

The next round in the budget brawl on Capitol Hill got underway today with the House voting 230 to 189 to adopt its Tea-Party-infused Continuing Resolution to keep the government