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House GOP Obamacare Replacement Plan Has Major Gaps in Cost and Coverage

By Eric Pianin

House Republicans Monday night unveiled their long-anticipated plan to repeal much of the Affordable Care Act and replace it with a conservative, market-based approach that House Speaker Paul Ryan (R...
Why Trump Won’t Touch Entitlement Reform…Yet

By Edward Morrissey

Trump needs a lot of money to pay for his grand plans. But tinkering with Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security before the midterm elections next year is playing with fire.
Obamacare RIP: Republicans Finally Have a Plan

By Edward Morrissey

Two days after the election, President-elect Donald Trump met with outgoing president Barack Obama to start planning the transition. Until then, the Republican successor to the White House had...
Trump Can’t Make America Great If He Kicks the Medicare Can Down the Road

By Edward Morrissey

Republicans in Washington face a tough question after unexpectedly winning the presidency and controlling the Senate in the 2016 elections. They have regained single-party governance for the first...
GOP Leaders’ Tepid Praise Spells Trouble If Trump Wins

By Rob Garver

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The two most powerful Republicans in Congress last night presided over the formal nomination of Donald Trump as the GOP’s presidential candidate for the 2016 election, and of...

House GOP Leaders and Trump Find Common Ground on New Tax Proposals

By Eric Pianin

Although Congress has put off any serious consideration of comprehensive tax reform until next year, House Republican leaders on Friday unveiled a far ranging wish list of measures designed to spur...
This Is Exactly Why Paul Ryan Didn't Want to Be Speaker of the House

By Rob Garver

Paul Ryan never wanted to be speaker of the House, and Wednesday was a perfect example of why. The guy who made his reputation as the Republicans’ wonk-in-chief as chairman of the Budget Committee...
Republicans Get Their Pound of Flesh by Censuring the Head of the IRS

By Charles Clark, Government Executive

In the latest in their bid to impeach the Internal Revenue Commissioner, Republicans on the House Oversight panel on Wednesday used a business meeting to approve a resolution 23-15 “condemning and...
After Endorsing Trump, Paul Ryan Decries ‘Anger’ and ‘Division’ in Politics

By Rob Garver

In this through-the-looking-glass period in U.S. politics, where cognitive dissonance has become more normal than remarkable, there shouldn’t be much left that surprises us. The Republican National...
One Place the Trump Train Isn’t Stopping: Paul Ryan’s Backyard

By Martin Matishak

In a year in which an outsider candidate seized the reins of one of the country’s two major political parties, there’s one place where folks haven’t gotten the anti-establishment message: House...

First Sharknado. Now “Congress-nado.”

By Eric Pianin and David Francis

Last night the ridiculous Sharknado movie had twitter abuzz. As Harry Reid threatens to go nuclear, we imagine a similarly ridiculous scenario here in the nation’s capitol
Two Immigration Plans, Two Worlds Apart

By Eric Pianin

As the battle over immigration reform shifts to the House, the Republicans are quickly dividing into two distinctive warring camps, with House Speaker John Boehner once again caught in the middle.
Congress’ Triumph: Beating 2012’s ‘Do Nothing’ Record

By Eric Pianin and Brianna Ehley

After a remarkably slow start this year, the 113th Congress returns to work today from a July 4th holiday with many challenges and a long way to go in tackling some of the most pressing national...
The Two Insider Rules That Control Congress

By Josh Boak, The Fiscal Times

Rules are the most obscure aspect of legislating on Capitol Hill, and yet they usually make the difference between success and failure in most hard-fought battles.
The Republican War on Data

By Bruce Bartlett, The Fiscal Times

On Wednesday, the House Budget Committee voted to force the Congressional Budget Office to produce deceptive budget data. It is part of a longstanding Republican effort to prevent the government from...

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