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The House met for a legislative session. Later in the evening the House considered and voted to approve a federal budget agreement for fiscal year 2014. The measure passed on a vote of 332 t…

Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and other Republican leaders spoke to reporters about the Budget Conference Committee agreement and the House agenda for the remainder of the week. Speaker Boehne…

Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) and Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI), co-chairs of the Budget Conference Committee, held a news conference to introduce the compromise budget bill that the confere…

Legislation Considered Under Suspension of the Rules: 1) H.R. 3521 - The Department of Veterans Affairs Major Medical Facility Lease Authorization Act of 2013, as amended (Sponsored by Rep.…

Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI) spoke about budget negotiations between House and Senate conferees, immigration, deficit reduction and the 2016 presidential race. In his remarks he said ther…

Doug Elmendorf testified before the House and Senate budget Conference Committee. He told members that even a short term agreement on spending levels would be better than no deal at all.

Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI) spoke at a birthday party fundraiser for Governor Terry Brandstad (R-IA) held at Adventureland Park’s Palace Theater in Altoona, Iowa. He talked about the pro…

House and Senate negotiators held their first formal meeting on the 2014 federal budget. The conference committee was supposed to come up with a budget plan by mid December 2013, as called f…

Marilyn Tavenner testified about the problems with the release of the Healthcare.gov Web site for the federal health insurance exchange. Ms. Tavenner in her opening statement apologized to u…

The leaders of the House and Senate Budget Committees spoke with reporters briefly after having breakfast to discuss negotiations over a long-term federal budget deal.

The House convened to vote on measures to temporarily re-open the federal government and extend the debt ceiling.

The Family Research Council held its 8th annual Values Voter Summit at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C. Speakers during the first afternoon session included former Representative …

The House considered a rule and amendments to the farm bill allowing the House to go to conference with the Senate.

Douglas Elmendorf testified on the latest Congressional Budget Office report on the long-term federal budget outlook. According to the report, the budget deficit will shrink to $378 billion …

House Republicans who were appointed by Speaker Boehner to a continuing resolution conference committee spoke to reporters about the shutdown of the federal government.

Witnesses testified on the status of their agencies' implementation of the Affordable Care Act.

Mark Iwry testified on the Obama Administration’s decision to move the Affordable Care Act’s employer mandate deadline from 2014 to 2015 and the legal justification for the decision. Committ…

H.R. 2667 - Authority for Mandate Delay Act (Subject to a Rule) (Sponsored by Rep.*Tim Griffin / Ways and Means Committee) H.R. 2668 - Fairness for American Families Act (Subject to a Rule) …

Ethics policy experts and law academics testified on the Obama administration’s decision to delay the employer mandate and the employer information reporting requirements under the Affordabl…

Daniel Werfel testified on the status of the investigation into the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and its reported targeting of tax-exempt status applicants for more stringent review based …