Mitch McConnell said he wouldn't block the bipartisan immigration overhaul on Tuesday, and Patrik Leahy said he will hold off — "with a heavy heart" — on a controversial amendment to green cards to spouses of gay couples. But the path to passage is surprisingly clear, even amidst the Obama administration's scandals.
For every sign that Republicans and conservative voters are finally embracing Mitt Romney as their presidential nominee, there's another that shows he still hasn't satisfied them.
A bipartisan Senate approved a two-month extension of the current payroll tax cut on Saturday, but House Speaker John Boehner says the House won't go along.
While his office was full of protesters, Sen. Mitch McConnell led Republicans in a vote on Thursday that blocked the $60 billion infrastructure component of President Barack Obama's jobs plan.
Today in sports: The World Series is rained out, the University of Louisville has complicated West Virginia's plans to join the Big 12, and the NFL's smartest quarterback also has a pretty good arm.
President Obama hasn't been able to put enough pressure on House Republicans to get them to pass his jobs bill -- or to pass pieces of his jobs bill -- so his next step in his anti-"do-nothing Congress" campaign is to use the executive order.
Here's something that might cheer up fatalistic liberals who think all the blame for inaction on jobs will fall on the president: conservatives fear Obama's tax-the-rich message is working.
Pundits say the the President's latest deficit speech dropped the milquetoast schtick
John Boehner and Mitch McConnell have made their picks for the debt deal committee
Cool cats in Congress celebrate raising the debt ceiling
McConnell wanted to protect Boehner as he and Biden worked out a plan
Mitch McConnell tells Congress, "U.S.A. will not default."
Four days until debt deadline and the Senate needs at least three days to pass a bill
The only bill that can pass the House will be so conservative it'll scare off some Republican senators
The House votes on his debt plan Thursday but the Senate promises to reject it
Their fear of helping Obama is weighing against their fear of economic catastrophe
As senators congratulate themselves on a debt deal, the House remains skeptical
Cites "progress" made in the "11th hour" of debt negotiations
Republicans don't want to vote for a debt ceiling plan that has a chance of passing
At the end of a tense day, two debt-reduction plans are on the table
Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell are working to avoid default
Cantor makes a bad negotiating partner but a great enemy for Democrats
Why it became the day's most popular oxymoron
In the debt ceiling talks, House Republicans are like a mooching party guest
The plan is being called "an escape hatch" for Republicans
Don't worry about party crashers when James Taylor's the only celebrity guest
Four Republican senators now oppose plan to privatize Medicare
Kathy Hochul won a special election with 47 percent of the vote
Mitch McConnell acknowledges that the vote is "the point of maximum leverage"
Partisan maneuvering focuses on voting on budgets no one expects to pass
GOP lawmakers increasingly vocal about the need to "move on"
All 31 GOP committee members also voted to say they don't believe in global warming
A budget deal must be made by March 18 to avoid a government shutdown
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