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The bipartisan deal to avert a government default this week featured modest cuts to a relatively small corner of the...
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Speaker Kevin McCarthy said that while there were still “outstanding issues,” Republicans were making progress toward a deal with the...
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Funding for the military has emerged as a key sticking point in reaching an agreement to raise the nation’s borrowing limit...
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What can you say about a week in American politics when the major breakthrough was that the two parties agreed...
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As a debt limit crisis loomed in 2011, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. described early negotiations with Republicans as...
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The discharge petition process can be time-consuming and complicated, so Democrats who devised the strategy started early and carefully crafted...