Stories by Daniel Newhauser:
July 18, 2012
The House overwhelmingly passed a bill to require President Barack Obama’s administration to outline the effects of a scheduled $1.2 trillion across-the-board cut to defense and discretionary spending.
July 18, 2012
The Levin brothers are lashing out at a fellow son of Michigan, drawing attention to Mitt Romney’s tax returns, which have become a favorite Democratic talking point against the presumptive GOP presidential nominee. In the process, the two Michigan Democrats are highlighting their long crusade against offshore tax havens.
July 17, 2012
Both Democrats and Republicans believe their message on the extension of the Bush-era tax cuts is a winner, and with just weeks to go before August recess, neither party is likely to back down.
July 17, 2012
Former Vice President Dick Cheney took to Capitol Hill today to warn of the dangers of allowing sequestration cuts to defense to take effect.
July 16, 2012
House Republican leaders hope to focus this week on defense, an issue they feel the GOP is strongly suited for, while forcing President Barack Obama to take responsibility for deep and impending cuts to the Pentagon.
July 14, 2012
The House Republican freshman class is a bunch of bomb-throwing conservatives intent on stymying leadership, shunning bipartisanship and shutting down the government, right?
July 11, 2012
The House voted today to repeal President Barack Obama’s health care law, sending yet another rebuke to the president after the Supreme Court upheld the law last month.
July 11, 2012
The House voted to great fanfare, again, on Wednesday to repeal President Barack Obama’s health care law. And although the vote might have political implications for some Members, the process seemed like a drag to others.
July 10, 2012
Without even a committee markup, the House farm bill has caused intraparty tensions to flare up among both Democrats and Republicans, who are primarily squabbling over how much money should be allotted for food stamps.
July 10, 2012
David Axelrod and two other senior advisers to President Barack Obama briefed the House Democratic Caucus today, outlining the president’s nine-state campaign strategy and showing the group political ads, according to sources in the meeting.
July 10, 2012
A day after President Barack Obama relit the partisan war over the Bush tax cuts, the president’s team deployed to Capitol Hill to reassure Democrats about the president’s re-election and messaging strategy.
July 9, 2012
We’ve seen this movie before, but then again, it could be the sequel. In a speech Monday, President Barack Obama stated his position on the Bush-era tax cuts once again — that they should be extended for those making less than $250,000 annually.
July 8, 2012
President Barack Obama’s health care reform law will be center stage again this week, as Republicans look to put coordinated bicameral pressure on Senate Democrats to take up a full repeal of the controversial law.
July 5, 2012
Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. will receive in-patient treatment after an unknown condition that caused him to take a leave of absence last month is believed to be worse than previously expected, according to a statement from his office.
June 28, 2012
The Capitol is rarely a lonely place. Even on the most ordinary legislative days, busy staffers bustle in the building’s bowels; maybe a lone protester waves a picket sign at Members near the West Front.
June 27, 2012
The White House and Capitol Hill have in place their messaging machinery for the Supreme Court’s ruling today on President Barack Obama’s signature health care overhaul — affirming it, relegating it to the dustbin of history or somewhere in between.
June 27, 2012
Speaker John Boehner said this morning that a highway bill agreement will likely include a one-year extension of current student loan interest rates, a measure the two chambers have been separately working to reconcile.
June 26, 2012
House Republican leaders are facing a minefield in moving a farm bill this year, as fundamental policy disagreements on both sides of the aisle might render the agriculture overhaul even more difficult to pass than the transportation bill.
June 24, 2012
The “Fast and Furious” investigation knocked House Republicans off their jobs message last week, and a series of detours ensures the party will have trouble re-centering its election-year economic message for at least one more week.
June 20, 2012
Presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney dispatched two health care advisers to Capitol Hill this week and House GOP leaders met with their rank and file behind closed doors for a final time to promote a unified front ahead of Monday’s anticipated Supreme Court decision on President Barack Obama’s health care law.
June 18, 2012
In the long and drawn-out Republican presidential nominating contest, Mitt Romney has been slow to embrace an unpopular Congress in his bid for the White House — and vice versa. Now, that all looks like a thing of the past.
June 15, 2012
Entering a crucial stretch for the student loan debate and transportation reauthorization conference committee, House negotiators will continue churning away this week while the floor debate will be dominated by election-year energy messaging.
June 14, 2012
House Democratic leaders today took the presidential election into their own hands to present a unified front against Mitt Romney and Congressional Republicans.
June 13, 2012
In a bleak sign for the highway bill conference committee, House Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman John Mica (R-Fla.) today released a statement expressing disappointment that Senate negotiators have yet to take up House proposals.
June 8, 2012
For Congressional Democrats anticipating the Supreme Court’s health care decision, the question is this: Why rush?
