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13 December 2013, 10:28 am by: Kasie Hunt and Carrie Dann
The House passed a year-end budget compromise Thursday night with overwhelming bipartisan support, but the bill faces a surprisingly uncertain path in the United States Senate.
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12 December 2013, 7:26 pm by: Carrie Dann, NBC News
The House has passed the National Defense Authorization Act, the major funding measure for the United States military for fiscal year 2014.The vote was TK-TK. It now goes to the Senate, although the upper chamber is currently tangled in debate over executive…
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12 December 2013, 6:42 pm by: Michael O’Brien, Political Reporter, NBC News
The House of Representatives approved a modest budget agreement that would essentially forestall the threat of a government shutdown through late 2015 in a Thursday evening vote.
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12 December 2013, 5:18 pm by: NBC Politics
Fact-checking organization Politifact has named their “Lie of the Year,” and it’s bad news for the White House and the Affordable Care Act.
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12 December 2013, 2:55 pm by: Carrie Dann
While you were sleeping last night, the Senate was working – ish. The Senate held an overnight session Wednesday as it continued to plod through a drawn-out fight over presidential nominations, confirming just two of 10 currently pending nominees by…
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12 December 2013, 2:19 pm by: Michael O’Brien, Political Reporter, NBC News
The House of Representatives appears poised to pass a modest budget agreement that would essentially forestall the threat of a government shutdown through late 2015 in a Thursday evening vote.
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12 December 2013, 12:25 pm by: Carrie Dann
House Speaker John Boehner is not sorry about his criticism of outside conservative groups.
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11 December 2013, 6:08 pm by: Carrie Dann
The Senate is set to spend Wednesday night debating executive nominees as Republicans protest Democratic attempts to force Obama administration nominations through in the wake of last month's change in the filibuster rules.An aide to Sen.
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11 December 2013, 5:56 pm by: Tom Curry, National Affairs Writer, NBC News
Budget fights in Washington are rarely simple or without rancor. Some conservative groups have already begun attacking the compromise deal announced Tuesday, lobbing complaints Republican House Speaker John Boehner dismissed as “ridiculous.
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11 December 2013, 11:47 am by: Michael O'Brien
Republican leaders defended a modest budget deal that would maintain government operations through 2015 amid conservative opposition that could scuttle the legislation in the House.
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11 December 2013, 11:22 am by: Carrie Dann
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Wednesday pledged a “relentless” push to continue improving the HealthCare.gov website and formally announced an inspector general review of the process that led to its botched rollout.“The initial…
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10 December 2013, 6:40 pm by: Michael O'Brien, Kasie Hunt and Frank Thorp
Bipartisan congressional negotiators unveiled a long-awaited budget framework to fund the government past mid-January and stabilize the government's finances into the near future.Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., and Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash.
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10 December 2013, 6:07 pm by: Michael O'Brien, Kasie Hunt and Frank Thorp
Bipartisan congressional negotiators have scheduled a 6 p.m. news conference to unveil a long-awaited budget framework to fund the government past mid-January and stabilize the government's finances into the near future.Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., and Sen. Patty…
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10 December 2013, 2:20 pm by: Carrie Dann
As the one year anniversary of the Newtown school shooting approaches, Vice President Joe Biden announced $100 million towards improving access to mental health services and facilities.
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10 December 2013, 2:02 pm by: Tom Curry
Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday sought to reassure nervous members of Congress about the interim agreement with Iran that’s designed to stop its progress toward building nuclear weapons.
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10 December 2013, 11:19 am by: Kasie Hunt and Carrie Dann
In the first confirmation vote since Democrats changed the Senate’s filibuster rules by invoking the “nuclear option,” the upper chamber has approved Patricia Millett's nomination to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.
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10 December 2013, 5:35 am by: Jeff Mason, Reuters
John Podesta, a former chief of staff to President Bill Clinton, is returning to the White House to advise President Barack Obama as he struggles to regain his footing after the flawed healthcare law rollout.Podesta steered Obama's transition team in 2008…
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9 December 2013, 6:38 pm by: Kasie Hunt and Carrie Dann
Just days before the anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, the Senate extended a ban on undetectable firearms but declined to tighten any of the law's restrictions.
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9 December 2013, 6:38 pm by: Carrie Dann and Kasie Hunt, NBC News
Lawmakers announced a sweeping agreement Monday to pass a long-awaited authorization bill for the Defense Department before the end of the year, but a proposed amendment to curb military sexual assault didn’t make the cut.Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y.
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9 December 2013, 6:27 pm by: Kasie Hunt and Carrie Dann
Just days before the anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, the Senate extended a ban on undetectable firearms but declined to tighten any of the law's restrictions.
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9 December 2013, 6:16 pm by: Kasie Hunt and Carrie Dann
Just days before the anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, the Senate has extended a ban on undetectable firearms without tightening any of the law's restrictions.
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9 December 2013, 2:40 pm by: Kasie Hunt and Carrie Dann
Just days before the anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, the Senate is expected to extend a ban on undetectable firearms without tightening any of the law's restrictions.
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9 December 2013, 4:25 am by: Jessica Taylor, Political Reporter, NBC News
Three years after President Barack Obama admitted that his party took a “shellacking” in the midterm elections, Republicans are setting their sights on another political wave in 2014. It’s a new battle, but the GOP is using the same weapon: public…
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8 December 2013, 11:35 am by: Tom Curry
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., a possible contender for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, said Sunday that his plan to spur job creation in high unemployment areas is the only politically viable plan to help depressed cities, with Detroit as the prime…
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6 December 2013, 5:07 pm by: Carrie Dann
Former President Bill Clinton praised the late Nelson Mandela Friday as a leader who sought to demonstrate not only the power of forgiveness, but a message of unity and cooperation.“He was a very, very effective president,” Clinton said in an interview…
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