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Day 10: Lots of meetings, guide to debt limit problem

President Obama (and Vice President Biden) Thursday will meet with the Senate Democratic Caucus in the State Dining Room. After that, they will meet with House Republican leaders and certain House GOP committee chairs in the Roosevelt Room. Republicans have more or less dropped their Obamacare demands that shut down the government and have pivoted  

Slide show: More popular than Congress? Lice, cockroaches, root canals — even France

According to a recent poll conducted by Public Policy Polling, Americans have higher opinion on head lice and colonoscopies than of our lawmakers.

Poll: Americans tell GOP leaders to take a hike off the fiscal cliff

It’s worse than Republicans thought. The first national poll conducted after the fiscal cliff deal finds that Americans overwhelmingly believe President Obama won the game of political chicken along the ledge of the “fiscal cliff.” Then there’s the bad news for the GOP. Just 19 percent of Americans approve of the way Republicans handled the […]

Did California legislators vote their pocket book on raising taxes for the wealthy? Check their net worths

CA Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Vista, a multi-millionaire who has repeatedly been ranked as one of the wealthiest lawmakers on Capitol Hill, is under attack for slamming the fiscal cliff tax bill — and failing to note his own personal tax stake in the measure. Media Matters took up the charge against Issa today, arguing that the […]

Mitch McConnell: “very, very close” and tax part done

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the chief negotiator with Vice President Joe Biden, said a deal on the fiscal cliff is “very, very close,” with an agreement on the main issue, taxes, in hand. McConnell said the spending cuts in the sequester can wait, and urged everyone to take the deal on taxes, […]

Rep. Sam Farr: House hijacked

The House is still waiting for the Senate to come up with a deal on the fiscal cliff, now down to negotiations between Republican leader Mitch McConnell and Vice President Joe Biden. Obama is set to deliver remarks at 1:30 Eastern, 10:30 Pacific. Rep. Sam Farr, D-Monterey, attributed the breakdown in the House to a […]

Nancy Pelosi to John Boehner: “figure it out”

At a press conference Wednesday, House minority leader Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, provided intriguing insight on her approach to leadership. Here it is verbatim: Q: Madam Leader, Speaker Boehner, this week, is being squeezed on the left and on the right on this deal. As a former Speaker, do you think that he can – […]

Impassioned Nancy Pelosi: Do I detect a smirk?

House minority leader Nancy Pelosi ripped Republicans for a second day on the House floor, accusing them Wednesday in an extemporaneous speech of fiddling like Nero. Tuesday she indicated Democrats would staunchly oppose raising the eligibility age for Medicare from 65 to 67. Medicare will not be used to “underwrite and subsidize tax cuts for […]

Poll: Public far more likely to side with Obama than Boehner on “fiscal cliff”

Boehner’s troubles might stem from the fact that 26 percent of those polled didn’t know enough to say whether they approved or disapproved of his handling of the negotiations.

Van Hollen: Boehner stringing out ‘fiscal cliff’ talks because of GOP politics

Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland, said Speaker of the House John Boehner might have to bring a plan to the table that could pass without majority support from the Republican caucus, but he expressed concern as to whether Boehner would make such a move before the official vote for Speaker on Jan. 3