By
Emma Dumain
| July 31, 2013, 12:59 p.m.
President Barack Obama gave a “full throated defense of Larry Summers” at a meeting with the House Democratic Caucus on Wednesday morning.
By
Hannah Hess
| July 30, 2013, 6:39 p.m.
The House is stepping up its cybersecurity as members prepare for the August recess.
By
Meredith Shiner
| July 30, 2013, 6:26 p.m.
Lawmakers regarded President Barack Obama’s latest attempt to engage them on an economic proposal as largely irrelevant Tuesday, with neither Democrats nor Republicans viewing it as an actual step forward toward breaking their ongoing budget impasse.
By
Steven T. Dennis
| July 30, 2013, 4:22 p.m.
1. It’s not particularly grand. Nor is it necessarily a bargain. Or even new. It’s mostly a repackaged offer of proposals the president has offered before.
By
Emma Dumain
| July 30, 2013, 4:17 p.m.
House Democrats and Republicans appear to be taking the same message home for August: Washington is broken.
By
Rebecca Gale, Jason Dick
| July 30, 2013, 2:44 p.m.
Robert Getzoff, a longtime Capitol Hill staffer with deep community ties, died July 15, and the tributes to him offer an insider’s view of how closely people work together on the Hill, as well as how important humor can be in forging workplace bonds.
By
JM Rieger
| July 30, 2013, 1:10 p.m.
Former Virginia Sen. Harry F. Byrd Jr. died Tuesday morning in his hometown of Winchester, Va. The 98-year-old, whose death was first reported by The Winchester Star, served in the U.S. Senate from 1965 to 1983 and previously worked in the state Senate from 1948 to 1965.
By
Hannah Hess
| July 29, 2013, 4:41 p.m.
The Capitol community is bidding a low-key farewell to former Rep. Lindy Boggs, D-La., a women’s rights champion who died of natural causes on July 27 at her Chevy Chase, Md., home. She was 97.
By
Diana Oberoi
| July 29, 2013, 2:21 p.m.
Valerie Nelson, most recently director of member services for House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., is embarking on what she calls a new adventure at Dentons as senior managing director of the firm’s public policy and regulation practice.
By
JM Rieger
| July 29, 2013, 2:19 p.m.
Caterpillar Inc. will have a new face in Washington this week.
By
Emma Dumain
| July 26, 2013, 3:54 p.m.
An enterprising computer hacker or foreign intelligence agent would have little problem hacking into the House of Representatives’ information technology systems, an unauthorized review of the chamber’s cybersecurity found.
Maria Teresa Kumar
| July 26, 2013, 1:03 p.m.
Recent news about Speaker John A. Boehner paints a picture of a man in a dreadful position. The speaker is in a conundrum. A dire situation, political analysts say.
By
Steven T. Dennis
| July 24, 2013, 3:59 p.m.
President Barack Obama’s latest pivot-to-the-economy speech at Knox College in Illinois struck familiar themes pointing to a popular-if-thwarted middle-class agenda while challenging Republicans not to shut down the government or spark another default crisis.
By
Alan K. Ota
| July 24, 2013, 2:56 p.m.
Sen. Orrin G. Hatch of Utah seemed to be trying to spark interest in an issue that was thoroughly on the back burner when he introduced a bill, with no co-sponsors, early this month addressing troubled public pension funds.
By
Steven T. Dennis
| July 23, 2013, 6:39 p.m.
Budget brinkmanship is on tap again this fall, if this week’s renewed finger-pointing over a potential government shutdown is any guide.
By
Steven T. Dennis
| July 22, 2013, 3:48 p.m.
President Barack Obama’s vision for a middle-class economic agenda has been knocked off stride in the first six months of his second term, and he’ll try to fix that starting this week and heading into the big budget fights this fall.
By
JM Rieger
| July 22, 2013, 1:47 p.m.
Located only a few hundred yards from former Rep. Elton Gallegly’s home in Simi Valley, Calif., the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Library, which is already a significant regional destination, might soon play an even greater role.
By
Paul M. Krawzak
| July 19, 2013, 1:25 p.m.
Although he is relatively new to the Senate and to politics, Wisconsin Republican Ron Johnson is making waves on budget issues. Over recent months, the tea-party-backed conservative has emerged as the numbers point man for a group of GOP senators who are holding private deficit reduction talks with White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough and other administration officials.
By
Lauren Gardner, Emma Dumain
| July 18, 2013, 7:30 p.m.
Peter A. DeFazio of Oregon won the contest Thursday to become ranking Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee, after Arizona Democrat Raúl M. Grijalva surprised colleagues with his decision to withdraw from consideration.
By
Lauren Gardner, Emma Dumain
| July 17, 2013, 4:14 p.m.
Peter A. DeFazio of Oregon bested Raúl M. Grijalva of Arizona in a hard-fought contest for the Democratic Steering and Policy Committee’s endorsement for the job of ranking member on the House Natural Resources Committee, setting up a final showdown before the full caucus on Thursday.
