• Boehner: 'I'm not threatening default' May 16, 2012
  House Speaker John Boehner denied he was threatening default when he called for equal or greater spending cuts to accompany a future increase in the debt ceiling.
• Debt-ceiling showdown returns to Washington May 16, 2012
  First Read: Speaker Boehner lays down markers for the next debt-ceiling fight that include deep spending cuts and no tax increases.
• Boehner lays down markers on year-end 'fiscal cliff' May 15, 2012
  Boehner said that the House would vote this fall "before the election" to extend the Bush-era tax cuts, and vowed to extract additional spending cuts in exchange for again raising the debt limit.
• Dems, GOP using popular bills to hurt other party May 14, 2012
  Congress is producing little this election year that will become law, yet both parties are churning out bills designed to make the other side look bad.
• Is America in fiscal austerity yet? May 11, 2012
  The short-term importance of the budget bill which the House approved this week is that Democrats now have another vote which they can use against Republicans running in tough races this fall.
• Campaigns taken off script in wild week May 11, 2012
  First Read: Obama’s decision to endorse same-sex marriage and story of Romney’s high school “pranks” knock campaigns off their messages.
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• GOP plan cuts social programs to protect Pentagon May 10, 2012
  Moving to protect the Pentagon, Republicans controlling the House are pressing cuts to food stamps, health care and pensions for federal workers as an alternative to an automatic 10 percent cut to the military come January.
• Bachmann drops Swiss citizenship, says proud to be American May 10, 2012
  Michele Bachmann doesn’t want to be Swiss after all. On Thursday, the Minnesota senator and former GOP presidential candidate said she had sent the Swiss consulate a letter to withdraw her citizenship.
• Voters deliver clear messages May 9, 2012
  First Read: Tuesday’s results were largely expected but the margins in Indiana, North Carolina and even West Virginia were surprising.
• Lugar defeated in Indiana primary May 9, 2012
  NBC News has declared Richard Mourdock as the projected winner in the Indiana Senate primary. Mourdock defeated Republican foreign policy elder statesman Sen. Richard Lugar.
• GOP blocks Senate debate on Dem student loan bill May 8, 2012
  Republicans have blocked the Senate from debating a Democratic bill keeping interest rates on college loans from doubling this summer for 7.4 million students.
• Obama's 'to do' list for Congress: jobs, mortgages May 8, 2012
  Pressuring Congress, President Barack Obama is laying out an election year "to do" list Tuesday that urges lawmakers to take another look at economic proposals to promote job creation and help families refinance their mortgages.
• Obama drives his message, pushed limits April 27, 2012
  First Read: President’s week-long push on student loan rates pays off but the White House pushed the campaign limits in the process.
• Democrats, Republicans put stock in new generation of combat vets seeking public office April 27, 2012
  A new generation of political leaders, forged by tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, are poised to possibly join the ranks of Congress next year.
• House GOP set to curb college student loan costs April 27, 2012
  Republican leaders are ready to try pushing legislation through the House holding down interest rates on federal loans to millions of college students.
• Battle for control of Congress tightens considerably April 26, 2012
  The battle for control of Congress this fall will be more closely-fought than many Republicans had predicted in the heady days following their 2010 midterm landslide victories says campaign insiders.
• Probe: Scant evidence 'torture' aided war on terror April 27, 2012
  A nearly three-year-long investigation by Senate Intelligence Committee Democrats is expected to find there is little evidence the harsh "enhanced interrogation techniques" the CIA used on high-value prisoners produced counter-terrorism breakthroughs.

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