This is not the headline you see this weekend. More typical is “House Republicans pass deep cuts in food stamps” like the New York Times. It is not until deep in the article you realize the “deep...

During the Obama administration the names of Saul Alinsky, Richard Cloward and Frances Piven often surface as forces that shape Obama and the Democratic Party. With the upcoming battle on the continuing resolution and debt ceiling it may be time...

The word around Capitol Hill is that a House vote on a Continuing Resolution which would fund all of Government except ObamaCare could be voted on as soon as Friday.This is an important vote, but without a concerted effort...

In what is seen as a major turn around, House Speaker, John Boehner has announced that the House will move to defund Obamacare, while providing funding for the rest of the government, at least on a temporary basis.  This...

When members of Congress return to Washington after Labor Day, they will have a full plate.  One of the issues they will hopefully tackle is the defunding of Obamacare, the president's signature legislation.  Richard Manning, vice...

 Around the edges of Congress and among the leaders, there are signs that government seeks a new equilibrium, a place at which it can become functional again. This propensity for becoming functionally normal is a result of several factors...

Utah Republican U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch, selected by the Tea Party to be defeated for a seventh term in 2012, is playing politics by withholding $1 billion in Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) funding to rebuild American...

The funding bill has not yet passed, so is a shutdown possible? Will Congress go to the brink again?  Yes, it is possible.Thursday night, the House, on its second try, passed a short-term Resolution to continue funding...

This has not be a year of statesmanship; first we sat through months of political bickering over a government shutdown cause the Pelosi House and Reid Senate had failed to pass a budget for last 3 years followed by short...

Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA-05) released the following statement about the growing likelihood that the federal government would experience a partial shutdown at midnight tonight.“The American people have a right to expect that their elected leaders will...

It’s been more than a year since lawmakers have proposed and approved an operational budget. Instead under Democratic leadership the budget process has been continued six times and still Congress in no closer to passing a spending plan...