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House to vote Wednesday on raise in debt limit
Tags: debt limit , Congress
House GOP may seek short-term debt limit extension
Tags: budget , debt ceiling , Congress , Paul Ryan
House bill blocks pay increase for feds
Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) introduced a bill that would block a 0.5 percent pay raise for federal workers slated to go into effect March 27. In an executive order issued late last month, President Barack Obama mandated a 0.5 percent pay increase.
Tags: Congress , pay raise , House Oversight and Government Reform Committee , Ron DeSantis , Darrell Issa
House rejects agency budget cuts in Sandy relief bill
The House soundly rejected an amendment to the Superstorm Sandy aid bill that would have required an across-the-board 1.63 percent cut to agency spending to offset the emergency funding. Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.) introduced the amendment last week along with a separate proposal to revoke a mass-transit subsidy for federal workers.
Tags: Congress , Mick Mulvaney , NTEU , Colleen Kelley , budget , Superstorm Sandy , Jack Moore
Boehner: GOP will pass 'responsible' debt bill
Speaker John Boehner says the GOP-controlled House will "do its job" and pass legislation to lift the nation's borrowing cap and keep the government running, but will insist that Democrats accept new spending controls.
Tags: Congress , budget , debt limit , John Boehner
More fiscal clashes loom as new Congress opens
Lawmakers 'committed' to postal reform in new Congress
Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said they were committed to working together to pass postal reform legislation in the new Congress. Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe renewed his call for congressional action, saying the agency faces an "unsustainable" financial path.
Tags: Congress , Senate , USPS , postal reform bill , Darrell Issa , Tom Carper , House Oversight and Government Reform Committee , Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee , Jack Moore
'Fiscal cliff' deal restores mass-transit subsidy
The bill to avert the "fiscal cliff" reinstates parity between the parking and mass-transit subsidies. The mass-transit subsidy was reduced in 2011 to $125 even as a similar subsidy for parking benefits was increased to $240 a month.
Tags: mass-transit subsidy , pay and benefits , NTEU , Colleen Kelley , Congress , Senate
Obama signs cliff deal to boost taxes on wealthy
Tags: budget , Dan Pfeiffer , fiscal cliff , tax cuts , Congress
Congress tightens belt, trims spy budget for 2013
House lawmakers voted Monday 373-29 in favor of a Senate-passed bill to slightly boost the president's $72 billion budget request for intelligence agencies, which is still less than last year's $80 billion budget.
Tags: Congress , CIA , al-Qaida , Mike Rogers , Dutch Ruppersberger , Senate , Diane Feinstein , House Intelligence Committee , Senate Intelligence Committee
