by Jackie Calmes Lucky for the Republicans who run the House, few Americans are paying attention to their antics of late, given the focus on the presidential […]
Tag: government shutdown
Will Freedom Caucus let Mike Johnson get away with his proposed budget?
by Jonah Goldberg The House Freedom Caucus is largely right about debt and deficits. Some members might be staggering hypocrites, given that they had little problem with […]
Congress didn’t solve the big issues
by Carl P. Leubsdorf The new House speaker, Mike Johnson, gave federal workers, U.S. troops and the American people a Thanksgiving and Christmas present: no government shutdown […]
GOP shutdown drama costs us plenty, even when Congress averts a stoppage
by Jackie Calmes Tired of Congress’ repeated partisan standoffs every time a big fiscal deadline approaches, like last week’s? Weary of the breathless cable coverage of looming […]
Johnson has nothing as shutdown looms
by Jackie Calmes House Speaker Mike Johnson, the obscure former backbencher vaulted out of the far-right field to Congress’ highest-ranking job just over two weeks ago, told […]
Discussion must start in shared reality
U.S. Rep. Alex Mooney is well within his rights to defend his vote against the continuing resolution that prevented the government shutdown on Sept. 30. In fact, […]
Guest essay: Mooney explains ‘no’ vote on stopgap funding bill
by Alex Mooney On Oct. 5, The Dominion Post ran an editorial criticizing my votes for fiscal responsibility and accountability. I have been fighting to pass government […]
Mooney chose politics over W.Va.
This past weekend, U.S. Representative Alex Mooney proudly voted to shut down the federal government — once on Friday and again on Saturday — which would have […]
Joke MCCARTHY Shutdown Act raises valid points
Why should Congress get paid for shutting down the government? Maybe Minnesota Rep. Angie Craig was trolling House Speaker Kevin McCarthy when she introduced the My Constituents […]
House GOP’s shutdown politics dumb
by Jackie Calmes For years, I stalked the Capitol halls amid Congress’ fiscal-year-end follies, waiting with other reporters for a breakthrough to end the latest faux crisis. […]
