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The White House said Friday the government shutdown is harming the Treasury Department's ability to administrate sanctions against Iran.
House Republicans' attempt to narrow the government shutdown by funding some U.S. agencies failed Tuesday when Democrats refused to go along.
The clock counting down to some potentially nasty fiscal realities has been ticking for a while but will sound a little louder and more urgent once Congress returns to Washington next week.
At least 93 members of Congress signed a letter urging U.S. President Barack Obama to consult with Congress before taking any military action against Syria.
The deadline for the sequester came and went. An automatic $85 billion, across-the-board cuts in spending for U.S. defense and domestic programs went into effect March 1 and – so far – calamity has been avoided.
Republicans in Congress are debating whether and how much to raise the age at which changes in the U.S. Medicare system would kick in.
U.S. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said Wednesday President Barack Obama was "trying to make it tough" on Congress by canceling White House tours.
Six members of the U.S. House panel investigating the ethics case against Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., quit Friday to avoid "an appearance of unfairness."
The U.S. Department of Energy hasn't generated much success in managing the national energy sector, a lawmaker on an appropriations committee said.
A woman was arrested in the U.S. House gallery Thursday after shouting she believed President Obama wasn't a natural-born U.S. citizen.
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