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Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Appropriations Committee ranking member, assessed the status of appropriations legislation in Congress, two weeks before continuing resolution was set to expire…

Senate Appropriations Committee Vice Chair Patrick Leahy (D-VT) talked about the $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill approved by Congress that week and signed by President Trump. He also tal…

Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) talked by remote video from Baton Rouge about flooding in Louisiana, including federal and state response efforts, and his past record on disaster relief funding.…

House Budget Committee Chair Tom Price (R-GA) talked about a range of topics, including the budget, federal spending, the new Republican leadership under Speaker Paul Ryan, the U.S. response…

Representative Tom Price (R-GA), incoming chair of the Budget Committee, talked about the budget process, the government funding bill passed by Congress, and how budget negotiations could ch…

House Appropriations Committee Chair Hal Rogers (R-KY) talked about federal spending and appropriations process and his effort to return Congress to passing 12 appropriations bills without a…

Representative Chis Van Hollen (D-MD), the ranking member of the House Budget Committee, talked about the agenda of the 29-member conference committee that would try to reach an agreement on…

Andrew Taylor talked via Skype about the work in Congress on the transportation and Housing and Urban Development Department appropriation bills.

House Appropriations Committee Chair Harold Rogers (R-KY), talked about his continuing resolution to fund the federal government. He argued that his plan extends the current continuing resol…

Andrew Taylor spoke via Skype about the debt ceiling and “fiscal cliff” negotiations. “Fiscal cliff” referred to impending tax increases and budget cuts at the end of 2012 if Congress failed…

Andrew Taylor talked by phone about the House canceling an upcoming recess in order to debate a proposal for a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution.

Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) talked about the federal budget and national debt. Senator Coburn recently dropped out of the “Gang of Six” senators group working to reach agreement on the budget.…

Andrew Taylor spoke by phone about the latest news on efforts to reach an agreement on a continuing resolution to fund the government through the remainder of fiscal year 2011, and the poten…

Representative Norm Dicks talked about how to get a spending bill that Democrats and Republicans can agree on. The current short-term CR expires next Friday, April 8, 2011.

Andy Taylor spoke by phone about the politics behind Senate deliberations on extension of unemployment benefits. The House passed a bill on May 28, but about 2 million jobless lost benefits …

Majority Whip Dick Durbin talked about Senate Democratic efforts to pass financial reform legislation and the Democrats' record on legislation this session as they head into the 2010 midterm…

Andrew Taylor talked about the status of the Iraq Supplemental Spending Bill.

Andrew Taylor talked about the passage of the omnibus spending bill. He said that it was passed in a two step fashion, with the passage of the funding for Cabinet positions occurring separat…

Andrew Taylor talked about the Omnibus Spending Bill that had been negotiated in Congress.

Associated Press reporter Andy Taylor was interviewed by telephone about the state of the spending legislation being considered by Congress during the week.