It’s a day of setting agendas in Washington. An assortment of CEOs and pack of progressives will descend on the White House for separate meetings with President Barack Obama, as he lays out his agenda for the economy and issues...
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Marissa Mayer, chief executive officer of Yahoo! Inc., in Davos, Switzerland.
Washington Daybook: Agenda-Setting
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House Majority Leader Eric Cantor on Captiol Hill.
Cantor Calls Tax Code Confusing — So Confusing, W-2 Talk Needs WD-40
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor says the tax code is confusing. It’s apparently so confusing that he flubbed it. In excerpts of a speech he’ll give tomorrow that his office circulated, Cantor plans to say: “Just filling out a W-2...
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House Speaker John Boehner, right, wore the president's color today at the inauguration.
Blue-Tied Republicans Bless Obama
House Speaker John Boehner, wearing a blue tie, spoke of renewing “the appeal to better angels” in the handing of the flag to President Barack Obama at the Capitol luncheon celebrating his second inauguration. “In the spirit of harmony,” he...
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House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, among the coffee guests.
Cantor at White House: ‘Lovely Wives’
This is a day of new beginnings. On the morning that President Barack Obama stands to deliver the inaugural address for his second term, he has some guests in at the White House this morning: Rep. Eric Cantor of Virginia...
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Speaker of the House John Boehner heads into a closed-door strategy session with GOP members at the Capitol.
New House Fiscal Year: Three Months
Updated at 2:25 pm EST The fiscal year in Washington is yielding, it appears, to the political quarter. House Republicans plan a vote next week on a three-month extension of U.S. borrowing authority, in an attempt to force the Democratic-run...
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A copy of the U.S. Constitution on Capitol Hill in Washington.
Constitution Read: 2nd Amendment — and more, from Republican House
Before Sandy aid came the Constitution. Members of the House of Representatives today continued a ritual begun two years ago after Republicans took control of the chamber by reading from the full text of the U.S. Constitution. Lawmakers of both parties...
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President Barack Obama and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie talk with people who are recovering from Hurricane Sandy, while surveying storm damage in Brigantine, N.J., on Oct. 31, 2012.
Christie Slams House for Delaying Sandy Aid Due to ‘Palace Intrigue’
Memo from Chris Christie to Congress: The American people hate you. New Jersey’s outspoken governor was fired up today after House Speaker John Boehner delayed a vote on Hurricane Sandy relief funding. “Disaster relief was something you didn’t play games...
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Destroyed homes in the Breezy Point neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York.
Sandy Saga: Republicans `Writing Off New York, New Jersey,’ King Says
Updated at 4:43 pm Rep. Peter King, a New York Republican, says any campaign contributors from his state or neighboring New Jersey who support House Republicans “should have their head examined.” King made his comments today on “CNN Newsroom” after Speaker...
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House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and Speaker of the House John Boehner walk to a meeting of the House Republican Caucus to discuss the Senate's legislation that is supposed to blunt the effects of the "fiscal cliff" during a rare New Year's Day session Jan. 1, 2013 in Washington.
Republican Opposition to Tax Deal Yielding to Late-Night House Vote
Updated at 9 pm EST The word from the House’s Republicans today carried three messages: – The Senate-passed tax bill negotiated by the White House and the Senate’s Republican leader wouldn’t fly in its current form. – It’d probably return...
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Quarterback Robert Griffin III of the Washington Redskins holds an American flag for Military appreciation before being introduced at FedEx Field on November 18, 2012 in Landover, Maryland.
Hail to the Redskins? Heck No, Say House Republicans
The Washington metropolitan area is famously a place where vast numbers of the citizenry come from somewhere else, drawn to the community by its cottage industry — the federal government. It is also a locale where coordinated action on key civic concerns such as housing and transportation is...
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