Outside the Beltway

Congress will get a temporary funding bill passed in time to avoid a shutdown on Thursday, but it may just be delaying the inevitable.

Big news out of Washington, D.C.

The pressure on Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz to expand the 2016 debate schedule is increasing.

Another poll confirms the fact that Americans of all political stripes continue to hold Congress is disdain.

The Iran nuclear deal will probably survive it’s test in Congress in the end, but Chuck Schumer just made the Administration’s job a little more difficult.

Recent polling has shown the American public to be highly skeptical, at beast, of the Iran Nuclear Deal. That may not be enough to kill it in Congress, though.

In the end, the odds that Congress can actually stop the new deal regarding Iran’s nuclear program are pretty low.

House Democrats defied President Obama on an important trade deal today, thus arguably marking the official beginning of his lame duck status.

Another lesson in incompetence in governing from House Republicans.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyhu’s speech to Congress is becoming even more partisan, much to the apparent chagrin of the Israelis.

Some Congressional Democrats are considering skipping a speech by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to a Joint Session Of Congress.

Despite opposition from both Republicans and Democrats, the compromise budget resolution passed narrowly last night, but not without some last minute drama

Today is a day for turkey and football, not a day for politics.

Some of his party’s leaders want the president to save them.

Outdated rules? It sure seems like it.

The GOP’s big wins last week seem to be just guaranteeing that this year’s battle between the Tea Party and the “establishment” will continue.

The GOP has a good chance of taking the Senate in 2014, but it will be by a narrow margin.

Republicans are dismissing talk of impeachment as a Democratic fundraising ploy, but it may be they are protesting just a bit too much.

A clash over Separation Of Power and the Imperial Presidency, coming soon to a Federal District Court in Washington, D.C.

In her upcoming book, Hillary Clinton strikes a defiant tone against conservative’s continued interest in the Benghazi attack.

Once again the Affordable Care Act meets the Law Of Unintended Consequences

Another day, another delay

More bad poll numbers for the President and his party.

A contrite President Obama offered a “fix” for one of the biggest problems that the PPACA has created.

Are these four men our last, best hope for a deal that will end the shutdown and avoid breaching the debt ceiling?

Being Speaker of the House has become much more of a difficult job than it used to be.

If one considers oneself to be conservative, ask if the the actions of the GOP at the moment conform to that term..

Things aren’t looking good for President Obama in the House of Representatives.

Not surprisingly, Congressional leaders on both sides of the aisle are lining up behind the President in the debate over Syria.

Marco Rubio has suffered a reversal of fortune among Republicans thanks to his role in the immigration reform debate.

It looks for all the world as if the House GOP Caucus isn’t really under the control of the leadership.

Looking at the data? Not very.

Resurrecting and old, and bad, idea.

Last night’s defeat of “Plan B” demonstrated yet again that John Boehner does not really control his caucus.

A outline of a deal both sides could live with.

With just about a month to go before we hit the “Fiscal Cliff.” things don’t look good at all.