Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is keeping senators in Washington for a rare Saturday session—and risking a government shutdown—after he went to extraordinary lengths to block Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) from forcing a vote to
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is keeping senators in Washington for a rare Saturday session–and risking a government shutdown–after he went to extraordinary lengths to block Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) from forcing a vote to
The final vote on Speaker John Boehner’s 1,603-page, more than $1 trillion omnibus spending bill is in jeopardy after members almost killed the bill on the rule. A total of 214 members voted for it, less than the majority of
Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-IN) says that House GOP leadership–he hasn’t identified anyone in particular–duped him into switching his vote on the procedural measure that set up the 1,774-page, $1.1 trillion cromnibus spending bill backed by House Speaker John Boehner and President Barack
President Barack Obama bailed out House Speaker John Boehner on Thursday night. After the House embarrassed Boehner by almost killing his 1,774-page $1.1 trillion cromnibus bill on a purely procedural vote earlier in the day, House Democrats pitched in to
House Republican leadership doesn’t seem to have the votes right now to pass Speaker John Boehner’s omnibus spending bill, and they just lost another major conservative with tons of influence in the House. As the leadership postponed the vote and
House Rules Committee ranking member Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY) says Speaker John Boehner isn’t going to get the Democratic votes–apparently at least 50–that he’d need to get his $1.1 trillion 1,774-page omnibus spending bill passed. “Rep Louise Slaughter: They tell
UPDATE: The omnibus spending bill has passed the House, 219 votes to 206. Speaker John Boehner will “roll the dice” and bring the 1,774-page $1.1 trillion cromnibus spending deal bill to the floor on Thursday night, and if it fails–as
It will be forever known as the Obama-Boehner cromnibus spending deal no matter what happens tonight. Speaker John Boehner, well more than four hours after GOP leadership sent the House of Representatives into recess subject to the call of the
President Barack Obama is trying to save the failing 1,603-page omnibus spending bill that almost died a procedural death in the House. “President Barack Obama supports the passage of the nine-month, $1.1 trillion spending bill roiling the House,” Politico says
Speaker John Boehner’s more than $1 trillion omnibus spending bill is actually getting longer — it grew an extra 171 pages last night. “With the adoption of the rule in the House, the CRomnibus grew from 1,603 pages to 1,774
Nancy Pelosi came out swinging against House Speaker John Boehner’s $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill, right after President Barack Obama urged Democrats in the House to vote for it. “I was so really heartbroken–I don’t think I’ve ever said that
Pages 958 and 959 of the 1,603-page omnibus spending bill from House Speaker John Boehner include a provision that gives Social Security benefits to illegal aliens under President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty. The seemingly wonky legislative language in that relevant
In testimony before the House Rules Committee, where he pushed Speaker John Boehner’s 1,603-page, $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill, House Appropriations Committee chairman Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY) made false claims about the bill’s budget calculations. “We abide by the Ryan-Murray
A new analysis from the Conservative Review finds that the omnibus spending bill backed by Speaker John Boehner and House Appropriations Committee chairman Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY) would bust through the spending caps set by a budget deal from House
In addition to Rules Committee chairman Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX), who is getting set to have his committee mark up the President Barack Obama executive amnesty-backing omnibus spending package Speaker John Boehner introduced late Tuesday, there are eight additional Republicans
There’s blood in the water on Capitol Hill. Teamsters Union president Jimmy Hoffa, Jr., is out in strong opposition to the omnibus spending bill as Democratic support–and Republican support–for it continues crumbling. “On behalf of the 1.4 million members of
You can’t make this stuff up. The 1,603-page omnibus spending bill–or at least part of it–was, according to one of Speaker John Boehner’s top allies, actually negotiated in a literal cigar smoke-filled backroom somewhere in Washington, D.C. “There’s no secrets
House Rules Committee ranking Democratic member Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY) admitted at the opening of the House Rules Committee hearing on Speaker John Boehner’s 1,603-page omnibus spending bill that nobody had actually read the bill before the hearing. “There’s some
House Majority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) is coming under fire in conservative circles for supporting the effort by House Speaker John Boehner, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Appropriations Committee chairman Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY) to reach a spending deal
If lawmakers in the House vote this week on a “CR-omnibus” spending package, House Speaker John Boehner will be doing exactly what he accused former Speaker Nancy Pelosi of doing on a similar bill in 2009: Ramming it down Americans’
The omnibus spending bill from House Speaker John Boehner and Appropriations Committee chairman Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY) contains a blatant handout to the travel–specifically casino–industry, something that benefits outgoing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. On page 217, Title VI of
Speaker John Boehner may be endangering RINOs, or Republicans-In-Name-Only, across Capitol Hill with this bill, but he’s going to extra lengths to use the 1,603-page omnibus spending bill from House Appropriations Committee chairman Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY) to protect real-life
House Speaker John Boehner has decided to give President Barack Obama $5.4 billion to fight Ebola around the world and at home. The 1,603-page omnibus spending bill Boehner’s House GOP leadership team introduced on Tuesday after 8 p.m. includes, according
The only person left who can stop the 1,603-page, $1.1 trillion Speaker John Boehner omnibus spending bill from getting to the floor for a vote is House Rules Committee chairman Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX). If Sessions doesn’t kill the bill
