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Senators Chris Coons (D-DE) and Jeff Flake (R-AZ) talked about the negotiations between a group of bipartisan senators that led to a deal to end the government shutdown.

Senators Susan Collins (R-ME), Jeff Flake (R-AZ), and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) spoke to reporters outside of Senator Collins' office on the third day of the government shutdown. The senators we…

Energy Secretary Rick Perry testified before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on his department’s fiscal year 2018 budget request. Topics included proposed cuts to the budge…

Thomas Tidwell testified at a hearing on the Forest Service’s fiscal year 2017 budget proposal. Many of the committee members' questions focused on the Forest Service’s increasing expenditur…

Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz testified on his department’s $32.5 billion budget request for fiscal year 2017.

Secretary of State John Kerry testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on his department’s fiscal year 2017 budget request and foreign policy challenges facing the U.S. Topics…

The Senate continued debate on its fiscal year 2016 budget resolution. The Senate voted on a continuous “vote-a-rama” procedure on amendments to S. Con. Res 11, the chamber’s budget resoluti…

Secretary of State John Kerry testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on his department’s fiscal year 2016 budget. Topics discussed included the aid being given to help Ukrai…

The U.S. Senate convenes to resume consideration of S Con Res 8, the budget resolution for fiscal 2014, offered by Budget Committee Chairman Senator Patty Murray (D-WA).

Representative Jeff Flake (R-AZ) gave the Republican Party’s weekly address. He criticized the Obama administration for the current budget deficit which he claimed affected home values, the …

Congressional leaders spoke to reporters and answered questions about wasteful government spending programs. The news conference coincided with the release of the Congressional 2012 “Pig Boo…

House Republican leaders unveiled their fiscal year 2013 budget proposal and answered questions from reporters about the plan.

Representative Jeff Flake talked about raising the federal debt ceiling, budget cuts, and proposed deficit reduction plans. He also responded to telephone calls and electronic communications…

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa P. Jackson spoke on her agency’s fiscal year 2012 budget request. In her testimony she urged Congress not to cut her agency’s budget …

Representative Jeff Flake talked about Republican efforts to end congressional earmarks, and he responded to telephone calls and electronic communications. He is a longtime opponent of earma…

Tom Schatz talked about congressional earmarks. Members of the 110th Congress allocated more than 7 billion dollars to earmarks in the 2008 spending bills enacted during the week, with a tot…

Rep. Flake talked about the earmark events during this current appropriations process and his long history of challenging earmarks. He responded to telephone calls and electronic mail.

The Federal Financial Management, Government Information, and International Security Subcommittee of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held a hearing on legisla…

Mr. Schatz and Senators McCain and DeMint and Representative Flake spoke to reporters about an annual report on government spending programs contained in the Congressional “Pig Book.” Follow…

Conservative organizations held a press conference at the Capitol to call on Congress to remove “pork” and excess spending form the supplemental appropriations. One of the projects that they…