Look for the Senate to toil late into the evening and possibly into the early morning hours to finish work on its fiscal 2014 budget blueprint. When back-to-back roll calls on amendments end, the chamber will finally be ready for...
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Senate Budget Committee members Sen. Pat Toomey, center, and Sen. Ron Johnson, right, make brief statements to the news media before the second day of markup hearings in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on March 14, 2013 in Washington The Republican senators were unified in their criticism of the federal budget proposed by the majority Democrats on the committee.
Washington Daybook: All-Nighter
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Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas and President Barack Obama shake hands during a joint press conference following meetings at the Muqata, the Palestinian Authority headquarters, in the West Bank city of Ramallah on March 21, 2013.
Washington Daybook: Future Tense
President Barack Obama delivers an address to the Israeli people in Jerusalem today. He met earlier with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah on the future of the peace process and said the Palestinian people “deserve a state of...
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The Washington Monument stands behind cherry trees blossoming in Washington on March 19, 2012.
Washington Daybook: Awaiting Cherries
President Barack Obama arrived in Tel Aviv this morning on his first visit to Israel as president. The three-day trip includes meetings and news conferences with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who disagrees with Obama on how to handle Iran’s...
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Enda Kenny, Ireland's prime minister
Washington Daybook: ‘Tis Never Too Late
Look for lots of green ties at the Capitol, with President Barack Obama and Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny scheduled to attend a belated St. Patrick’s Day lunch on Capitol Hill, hosted by House Speaker John Boehner. The Senate Banking...
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Rep. Paul Ryan, center, Chairman of the House Budget Committee, joins with other members of the committee as he arrives for a press conference at the Capitol where he unveiled his budget plan on March 12, 2013 in Washington.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: $4.6 Trillion
That’s how much House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan would cut out of federal spending over the next 10 years. Ryan, a Wisconsin Republican who was his party’s vice presidential nominee in 2012, introduced a proposal yesterday that he said...
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The nomination of Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau is up before the Senate Banking Committee.
Washington Daybook: Charm School
President Barack Obama travels to Capitol Hill today to meet with Senate Democrats during their weekly caucus, the firstof a series of meetings the president plans to hold with lawmakers. Next up: visits with the House Republican conference tomorrow and...
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Representative Paul Ryan, a Republican from Wisconsin, holds a copy of the Fiscal Year 2013 Budget while chairing a House Budget Committee hearing in Washington in this Feb. 16, 2012 file photo.
Washington Daybook: Ryan’s Savings
The Treasury Department will update the size and scope of the federal budget problem when it reports on February’s deficit, with economists surveyed by Bloomberg saying it could be more than $200 billion. House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, a...
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Employees install furniture and wiring in pontoon boats in Elkhart, Indiana.
Washington Daybook: 7.7 Percent
HBO has “Game of Thrones.” In Washington, it’s a game of numbers. Employers added 236,000 workers to payrolls in February after 157,000 a month earlier, showing progress in the labor market that could help President Barack Obama’s approval numbers. The...
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Rep. Paul Ryan in front of the USS Wisconsin in Norfolk, Virginia, in this file photo.
Washington Daybook: Ryan at 1600
Rand Paul’s quixotic filibuster against John Brennan’s nomination as CIA director in which he droned on about the issue of, well, drones, lasted a respectable 12 hours, 52 minutes. That places him between Strom Thurmond’s 24 hour rant against the...
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Workers remove a heavy mixture of snow and ice from the west front of the U.S. Supreme Court on March 6, 2013 in Washington.
Washington Daybook: Snow Shutters
Federal offices are closed today as a nameless storm is expected to drop as much as 10 inches of snow on Washington. Most schools, courts and military bases are also shuttered. While executive-branch offices are closed, Congress plans to do...
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