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Charles Babington

Budget deal may signal era of tiny achievements

WASHINGTON – People hoping for a government that works better can’t decide whether to cheer or lament a bipartisan budget bill that legislative leaders call a breakthrough even as they ackno...

DATE: Dec 16, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Governors’ Medicaid decisions vary across U.S.

Some Republican governors are not playing party politics

DATE: Dec 14, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Democrats reach breaking point on filibusters

WASHINGTON – As Democrats watched Senate Republicans use filibuster powers to thwart more and more of President Barack Obama’s agenda and nominees, they wondered how much worse it could get....

DATE: Nov 23, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

GOP infighting fierce even in western strongholds

MONTPELIER, Idaho – Republicans have made the Mountain West a stronghold, which is why brewing party brawls in Wyoming, Idaho and Utah are bedeviling loyalists who yearn for GOP unity. ...

DATE: Nov 16, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Health-care law’s troubles give GOP a boost

WASHINGTON – The health-care law’s seemingly endless problems are giving congressional Republicans a much-needed boost of energy, helping them to move past the government-shutdown debacle an...

DATE: Nov 9, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Talks complicated by district lines

WASHINGTON – The government shutdown could last for many days or even weeks because politically safe lawmakers in both parties feel little pressure to compromise. Heavily gerryman...

DATE: Oct 3, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

House members: Shutdown better than ‘Obamacare’

WASHINGTON – More than a third of House Republicans urged their leader Thursday to trigger a government shutdown rather than fund the implementation of the health care overhaul they call “Ob...

DATE: Aug 22, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

GOP strategy for ’16 looks unsettled

Party rebels with stance on immigration

DATE: Jun 22, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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