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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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
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Byron Jennings, Joseph Cross, Hal Holbrook, Daniel Day-Lewis as President Abraham Lincoln, David Strathairn, Jeremy Strong, and David Costabile in 'Lincoln.'
Spielberg’s `Lincoln’: Cinematic Treat Best Served with Lame-Duck
Lame-duck sessions of Congress can be larger than life. That’s the way the lame-duck session of the winter of 1864 was portrayed in the film, “Lincoln,” the tale about President Abraham Lincoln’s winning of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution...
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Daniel Day-Lewis as President Abraham Lincoln, center, in the film "Lincoln."
Republicans Rallying for `Lincoln’ — Majority Whip’s `Movie-Night’ Out
Kevin McCarthy is big on the big screen. Last year, during the debt debate on Capitol Hill, the Republican congressman from California and House majority whip showed his troops a clip from the film “The Town,” the Ben Affleck-directed film...
Read more »Washington Daybook: Who Are You
In honor of today’s appearance by rock legends Roger Daltrey and Pete Townsend at the National Press Club, here’s a list of events today in Washington, as performed by The Who: Going Mobile: Federal workers have the day off as...
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House Majority Whip Rep. Kevin McCarthy, left, and House Majority Leader Rep. Eric Cantor during a news conference on Capitol Hill.
Romney Surrogate Goes Global in Race for Cash
A senior House Republican is willing to go halfway across the world to help out Mitt Romney. Representative Kevin McCarthy, the third-ranked House Republican, hopped on the 13-hour flight to Hong Kong from San Francisco yesterday to raise cash for...
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Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan waves to supporters in Westlake, Ohio.
Ryan to Take Break from Campaigning to Return to House, McCarthy Says
Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan will return to Capitol Hill this week to take part in the House debate over a six-month stopgap spending measure, House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, a California Republican, said today. “We’ll see Paul this...
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Ryan’s Nod: Loses Grill of Dreams
Did Mitt Romney cost Paul Ryan the barbecue of his dreams? That just may be the case, according to one of Ryan’s House colleagues. Representative Kevin McCarthy, one-third of the House Republican “Young Guns” — a trio that includes Ryan...
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Speaker of the House John Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor in Washington.
Republican Leaders, Super-PACs Shape North Carolina House Runoff
A runoff election for a House seat today between two North Carolina Republicans is unusual for the intervention of party leaders and outside groups. Richard Hudson, a former chief of staff to three House members, is the preferred candidate of...
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Protesting against the Affordable Care Act in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on June 28, 2012.
McCarthy: Health-care Bottom Line
With politicians of the highest rank and interest groups of the most obscure weighing in with reaction to and assessments of today’s U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding the core of President Barack Obama’s health-care overhaul, the award for the pithiest...
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