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Byline: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN and ROBERT PEAR WASHINGTON -- Republican and Democratic negotiators in the House have clinched a deal on a $1.1 trillion spending bill and a huge package [...]

WASHINGTON -- Congressional negotiators introduced a sweeping year-end spending and tax-break package Wednesday that bursts through previously agreed budget limits with $66 billion in new spending for 2016. It also [...]

WASHINGTON -- Republican and Democratic negotiators in the House clinched a deal late Tuesday on a $1.1 trillion spending bill and a huge package of tax breaks. Legislative drafters, racing [...]

WASHINGTON -- Congressional negotiators worked Monday night to complete a $1.1 trillion spending bill for 2016, and an accompanying package of up to $750 billion in tax breaks for businesses [...]

WASHINGTON -- With negotiators certain to blow a midnight deadline for a $1.1 trillion spending bill for 2016, Congress on Friday approved a stopgap measure to forestall a government shutdown [...]

WASHINGTON -- For months, Senator Lisa Murkowski, Republican of Alaska, and Senator Heidi Heitkamp, Democrat of North Dakota, formed a quiet, persistent alliance as they sought to convince their colleagues [...]

WASHINGTON -- Congressional negotiators are lurching toward a year-end deal that could combine a $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill with a slate of more than $750 billion in tax breaks [...]

WASHINGTON -- Senate Republicans have finally fulfilled their long quest to pass legislation repealing President Obama's landmark health care law, and Congress will soon send the measure to the White [...]

WASHINGTON -- Speaker Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin drew a striking contrast between Republicans and Democrats on Thursday and vowed to pursue legislation that would frame a stark choice for [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Senate approved legislation on Thursday night that would repeal President Obama's landmark health care law, a goal of Republicans since the law was adopted in March 2010. [...]

WASHINGTON -- Congressional negotiators clinched a deal on Tuesday for a five-year, roughly $300 billion transportation bill that would inject badly needed investments into the nation's deteriorated highways and other [...]

WASHINGTON -- Hours after President Obama pledged Tuesday in Paris that the United States would be in the vanguard of nations seeking a global response to climate change, Congress approved [...]

Byline: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN WASHINGTON -- Congress reconvened on Monday with leaders in a rush to close out a $1.1 trillion spending plan, but Republicans and Democrats were on a [...]

WASHINGTON -- Days after a gunman killed three people at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado, the House majority leader, Kevin McCarthy, said that Republicans were not planning to force [...]

Byline: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN and MICHAEL D. SHEAR WASHINGTON -- Seizing on the terrorist attacks in Paris, congressional Republicans on Tuesday demanded the suspension of a program to accept Syrian [...]

WASHINGTON -- Seizing on the terrorist attacks in Paris, congressional Republicans on Tuesday demanded the suspension of a program to accept Syrian refugees in the United States, but along with [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Senate on Tuesday approved an annual military policy bill, and the White House spokesman said President Obama would sign it despite provisions that will make it extremely [...]

WASHINGTON -- The House on Thursday overwhelmingly approved a multiyear highway bill that includes more than $300 billion in transportation and infrastructure programs to address the nation's deteriorating roads and [...]

WASHINGTON -- Representative Vicky Hartzler, Republican of Missouri, wanted an amendment that would prohibit the use of federal highway money for ''landscaping and beautification.'' ''We should spend our federal highway [...]

WASHINGTON -- The House on Tuesday debated and voted on dozens of amendments to an important highway bill as Paul D. Ryan sought to use his first week as speaker [...]

Byline: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN WASHINGTON -- The Senate approved a crucial bipartisan budget agreement early on Friday that would avert a government default and end nearly five years of pitched [...]

Byline: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN and EMMARIE HUETTEMAN WASHINGTON -- Paul D. Ryan, a son and grandson of Midwestern lawyers, ascended rapidly in American politics as a man with big plans: [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Senate approved a crucial bipartisan budget agreement early Friday that would avert a government default and end nearly five years of pitched battles between congressional Republicans and [...]

Byline: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN and JENNIFER STEINHAUER WASHINGTON -- Paul Davis Ryan, a son and grandson of Midwestern lawyers, rocketed to political stardom as a man with big plans: The [...]

WASHINGTON -- Paul D. Ryan, a son and grandson of Midwestern lawyers, ascended rapidly in American politics as a man with big plans: to overhaul the tax code, slash federal [...]

Byline: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN, JENNIFER STEINHAUER and CARL HULSE WASHINGTON -- House Republicans on Wednesday nominated Representative Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin to be the 62nd speaker of the House, [...]

WASHINGTON -- House Republicans on Wednesday nominated Representative Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin to be the 62nd speaker of the House, turning to the young chairman of the Ways and [...]

WASHINGTON -- Two days before the end of his quarter-century in Congress, Speaker John A. Boehner's barn is looking pretty clean. The House on Wednesday overwhelmingly adopted a crucial bipartisan [...]

Byline: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN WASHINGTON -- After five years of bitter clashes, Republican congressional leaders and President Obama appeared to settle their last budget fight by reaching a tentative deal [...]

WASHINGTON -- Congress and the White House spent September bracing for a disruptive government shutdown, and most of October fretting over a possible default on the federal debt. In between, [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDWASHINGTON -- After five years of bitter clashes, Republican congressional leaders and President Obama on Monday night appeared to settle their last budget fight by reaching a tentative deal [...]

WASHINGTON -- House Republicans on Friday adopted a budget reconciliation package that would repeal core components of the Affordable Care Act and cut off government funding of Planned Parenthood. The [...]

Byline: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN and EMMARIE HUETTEMAN A strong majority of anti-establishment conservatives in the House Freedom Caucus have voted to support Representative Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin for House [...]

Byline: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN and EMMARIE HUETTEMAN A strong majority of anti-establishment conservatives in the House Freedom Caucus have voted to support Representative Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin for speaker [...]

Byline: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN WASHINGTON -- For weeks, the hard-line conservatives in the House Freedom Caucus have said what they want most in Congress is a say in how the [...]

A strong majority of anti-establishment conservatives in the House Freedom Caucus voted on Wednesday night to support Representative Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin for House speaker, assuring that he will [...]

WASHINGTON -- With the potential for an unprecedented federal default two weeks away, House Republicans on Wednesday plan to pass legislation not to avert disaster, but rather to manage it, [...]

WASHINGTON -- First, it was called the Roadmap for America's Future. Later, it was the Path to Prosperity: Restoring America's Promise. The next installment was Path to Prosperity: A Blueprint [...]

WASHINGTON -- As tension built in the House of Representatives in recent weeks, it was sometimes hard to know whom hard-line conservatives were gunning for more: President Obama or their [...]

Byline: JENNIFER STEINHAUER and DAVID M. HERSZENHORN WASHINGTON -- Representative Kevin McCarthy of California abruptly withdrew from the race to succeed Speaker John A. Boehner, blindsiding his House Republican colleagues [...]

WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney called him. Speaker John A. Boehner pleaded with him. Representative Fred Upton said, ''He needs to do this for the team, that's what we are all [...]

Byline: JENNIFER STEINHAUER and DAVID M. HERSZENHORN WASHINGTON -- Representative Kevin McCarthy on Thursday abruptly took himself out of the race to succeed John A. Boehner as House speaker, leaving [...]

WASHINGTON -- Representative Daniel Webster, the little-known lawmaker endorsed for House speaker on Wednesday by hard-line conservatives, says he has a simple goal in seeking the post that is second [...]

WASHINGTON -- Representative Kevin McCarthy of California abruptly withdrew on Thursday from the race to succeed Speaker John A. Boehner, blindsiding his House Republican colleagues and throwing their already tumultuous [...]

Byline: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN WASHINGTON -- Representative Marlin Stutzman, a fourth-generation farmer from northeast Indiana, came to Washington on the Tea Party wave of 2010 intent on tackling his constituents' [...]

WASHINGTON -- Representative Marlin Stutzman, a fourth-generation farmer from northeast Indiana, came to Washington on the Tea Party wave of 2010 intent on tackling his constituents' many demands: cutting federal [...]

WASHINGTON -- Responding to the mass murder by a gunman at Umpqua Community College in Oregon, Democrats on Thursday will begin a new push for gun control legislation in the [...]

WASHINGTON -- As the government nears a potentially devastating default, the White House and congressional leaders have begun bipartisan talks aimed at reaching a two-year budget deal, seizing on what [...]

WASHINGTON -- With only hours to spare on the last day of the fiscal year, Congress averted a government shutdown on Wednesday by approving a temporary spending measure to keep [...]

Byline: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN WASHINGTON -- After a brief trading of angry recriminations, Senate Republicans and Democrats voted to advance a temporary spending measure that would avert a shutdown of [...]