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A dozen Republican Senators joined a united Democrat caucus to invoke cloture on the Ryan-Murray budget deal on Tuesday. The cloture vote was 67-33. The vote, which cuts off a possible filibuster, puts the deal on a clear path to

(AP) Budget bill moves toward final passage in SenateBy ANDREW TAYLORAssociated PressWASHINGTONA bipartisan budget bill that would ease some but not all of painful budget cuts that would otherwise slam the Pentagon and domestic agencies has passed a pivotal test

Democrats in New Jersey are accusing Governor Chris Christie (R-NJ) of using traffic patterns to punish political opponents. According to state Democrats, Christie appointees at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey ordered access lanes from Fort Lee

(AP) Can this marriage be saved? GOP, hard-right groupsBy DONNA CASSATAAssociated PressWASHINGTONRepublican leaders and several hard-right groups are displaying the classic signs of a political divorce, including bitter name-calling and reprisals against one another. The recent eagerness of House Speaker

(AP) Snowden: NSA’s indiscriminate spying ‘collapsing’By BRADLEY BROOKSAssociated PressRIO DE JANEIRONational Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden wrote in a lengthy “open letter to the people of Brazil” that he’s been inspired by the global debate ignited by his release of

Paul Broun, the Georgia congressman who is running in the GOP primary for the Senate seat to be vacated by the retiring Saxby Chambliss, speaks loudly about his commitment to halting illegal immigration. However, his record suggests he is anything

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said that if comprehensive immigration reform is going to pass in this Congress, it will happen before June of 2014.  “Well, I think if it’s going to happen, it will happen before June,” she

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 (UPI) — The Senate voted by a wide margin Monday to make Jeh Johnson the next secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. The vote was 78-16, ABC News reported. Johnson will succeed Janet Napolitano, who is

The budget deal that Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) brokered last week and passed in the House will make it easier for four vulnerable Senate Democrats from red states to get re-elected. According to The Hill,

The budget deal that House Budget Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) cut with Senate Budget Committee chairwoman Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) is set to clear the Senate, The New York Times reports. “Senator Orrin G. Hatch, Republican of Utah,

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said he thinks that House Budget Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) is presidential material because of his work on the spending deal he cut with Senate Budget Committee chairwoman Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA). “From my

The budget deal that House Budget Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) made with Senate Budget Committee chairwoman Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) cuts military pensions to pay for immediate spending increases, CNN Money’s Jennifer Liberto reports. The bill raises spending

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), the ranking GOP member of the Senate Budget Committee, is warning his fellow Republican Senators against voting for the spending deal that House Budget Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) reached with Senate Budget Committee chairwoman

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, has released a section-by-section analysis of the spending deal House Budget Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) cut with Senate Budget Committee chairwoman Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA). “The

House Budget Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) argued that caving on the budget to pass the legislative deal he cut with Senate Budget Committee chairwoman Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) should be done so that the GOP can focus on

Alabama Senate President Pro Tem Del Marsh (R-Anniston) told the state he will not make any effort to repeal the controversial education program Common Core. Governor Robert Bentley (R) and Speaker of the House Mike Hubbard (R-AL) support the repeal,

Lobbyists are reportedly “pumping their fists” over House Speaker John Boehner’s declaration of war against the Tea Party last week. According to The Hill, lobbyists were “pleasantly surprised by” Boehner’s “strident remarks” last week in which he said Tea Party

As the investigation into the shooting at Arapahoe High School continues, law enforcement officials stress that the presence of an armed guard in the school “was the key factor in preventing more deaths and injuries.” On December 13th, 18-year-old Karl

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is the third most influential person in the world behind Pope Francis and President Barack Obama, according to a new poll. When asked who they thought was the most influential figure in the world, 23% of

Democratic Senators, upset with the White House’s botched rollout of Obamacare, are apparently overjoyed at President Obama’s injection of former Clinton experts into the administration. Last week, the White House announced that John Podesta of the Center for American Progress

Police say the 18-year old who wounded one student, then killed himself at a Colorado high school on December 13th purchased his gun “legally” at “a Denver-area gun store.” According to ABC News, Karl Halverson Pierson walked into Arapahoe High

House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) misled his colleagues in the House of Representatives about several major areas of the budget deal he cut with Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), Breitbart News has learned. Misrepresentations

Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) is leading his 2014 primary challenger, Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX), by 46 percentage points according to a poll conducted after Stockman entered the race this week.  According to a Wilson Perkins Allen Opinion Research poll that Politico obtained,

On Tuesday, the Senate will hold its first procedural vote on the Ryan-Murray budget deal. The odds of the deal passing increased significantly late Friday as GOP Sens. John McCain (AZ), Susan Collins (ME), Jeff Flake (AZ) and Richard Burr