Loren Duggan

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Huge end-of-the-year deadlines looming in Congress

Congress is back from its Thanksgiving recess this week — with not very much time to go before several different impending deadlines. We’ve talked a lot…

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APTOPIX Congress Speaker

With no time to lose, Congress is functional again, more or less

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FILE - People walk outside the U.S Capitol building in Washington, June 9, 2022. The biggest investment ever in the U.S. to fight climate change. A hard-fought cap on out-of-pocket prescription drug costs for seniors in the Medicare program. A new corporate minimum tax to ensure big businesses pay their share. And billions leftover to pay down federal deficits. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

If you’re not surprised there’s not a shutdown, you’re prescient or a prevaricator

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(AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)The U.S. Capitol is seen in Washington, Tuesday, July 20, 2021. To enact President Joe Biden’s expansive domestic agenda this year, Democrats have mapped out a convoluted legislative maze. The party wants to push the new president's multitrillion-dollar plans for supercharging federal infrastructure, climate change and social programs through a Congress in which they have only paper-thin majorities. GOP opposition is certain to be solid. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Congress shoves that budget boulder uphill one inch at a time

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Debt Limit

All congressional eyes focus on the great question: CR or government shutdown?

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AP Poll Polarization

Both houses of Congress are churning out appropriations bills, believe it or not

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Debt Limit

Both the House and Senate have a lot to take care of and not that much time to do it

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Congress Debt Limit

Regular business, like your agency’s budget, is coming back to life in Congress

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Congress Debt Limit

Congress is twisted in debt ceiling knots, and it only gets worse this week

The looming debt ceiling will occupy the first order of business for Congress again this week. Yet budget hearings and other regular stuff will also go on.

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Loren Duggan Bloomberg Government

The Senate is alone on Capitol Hill this week, as the budget debate rolls on

The House is in recess this week, but the Senate will hear more budget testimony and deal with judicial nominees.  Federal Drive with Tom Temin got the…

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Congress Failed Banks

With Spring Break over, Capitol Hill should be hopping

The House and Senate are coming back to the Hill after a two-week spring hiatus.

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