By THE WASHINGTON POST What do you call two senators from different parties who plan to perform together at a concert? The Amateurs. Read more…
By FORBES Yesterday, Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) took time from their busy post-recess schedules (and football rivalries) to welcome the recommendations of the Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking (Commission or CEP) as it released a set…
By THE WASHINGTON POST Last week, the leader of the moderate Tuesday Group, House Republican Charlie Dent of Pennsylvania, announced that he’s calling it quits — just one day after Rep. Dave Reichert (R-Wash.) did the same, putting two swing…
By USA TODAY The House on Friday passed a $15.25 billion hurricane relief package that also increases the nation’s debt limit and funds the federal government for the next three months. Read more…
By CNN Senators may seek a bipartisan compromise next month on health care reform. President Trump hits the road to plug tax reform. And comments by a GOP elder may complicate Trump’s trip to Missouri. Read more…
By THE ATLANTIC Health-care hearings next month will mark the first effort at collaboration between the two parties, even as the Republican repeal push sees one last gasp. Read more…
By Nancy Ognanovich House Republican leaders may be planning to force action on a $1.1 trillion, 12-bill omnibus spending package in early September, but this year’s fiscal follies marking the budget process are expected to last weeks—if not months—before a…
By FOX BUSINESS President Donald Trump’s administration has continued to indicate they prefer to work out a bipartisan deal on tax reform and one of the groups they’ve turned to is the moderates within the Democratic Party, the Blue Dog…
By ROLL CALL President Barack Obama’s signature is now dry on the hard-fought Budget Control Act of 2011. So where’s the victory lap? Where are the pundits jockeying to take credit? Read more…
By The Washington Post The Trump administration and Congress face a daunting set of budget-related deadlines in the coming weeks. Blowing them could upend global financial markets and cause a partial government shutdown. Read more…
By CNN The sensational collapse of Republican efforts to repeal Obamacare in the Senate last week is fueling fresh optimism that lawmakers might finally work in a bipartisan fashion to fix the Affordable Care Act. Read more…
By POLITICO Blue Dogs are often dismissed as a dying breed of Democrat. Fiscally conservative, socially moderate and built from the ashes of former Dixiecrats, Blue Dogs have struggled in recent years to find a home in the Democratic Party….