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Analysts say this year’s defense bill contains a few of the most significant reforms to the Department of Defense in decades, including measures to cut the Pentagon bureaucracy and modify retirement benefits. Carter later signed Congress’s second proposal, which did...

King is hoping the candidates for speaker explain tonight how they plan to restore the power of the legislative branch.

Cruz yielded the floor but not before he was able to take one more shot at Republican leadership.

“Given that reality, uniting behind a candidate that can get to the 218 votes necessary to win the Speakership is critically important”. “That doesn’t signal change”. Chaffetz said many Republican lawmakers wanted a change in leadership.

Conservative Republicans are very much against the spending bill’s inclusion of federal dollars for Planned Parenthood, and News 3’s Noelle Bellow has reaction form one local health group.

“The deplorable practices at Planned Parenthood have been exposed to Americans, and I have chose to stop any association with the organization in Alabama”, Bentley said at the time.

In the Senate, Hatch voted for the spending bill, while Sen.

McCarthy was elected to Congress in 2006, and was quickly put into the job of chief deputy whip and majority whip.

Last Friday, House Speaker John Boehner walked up to a podium in the Capitol dome singing.

McCarthy’s “candid admission”, he writes, exposes the true aim of the Benghazi committee – “exploiting the death of four Americans for partisan political gain”. But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee.

Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards answered questions before a hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on September 29, as congressional efforts to end taxpayer funding of the nation’s largest abortion provider continue.

The controversial bill, appropriately titled the Defund Planned Parenthood Act of 2015, passed the U.S. House of Representatives by a margin of 54 votes. The battle has been rejoined just in time for the 2016 election campaign and next week’s historic address to Congress by...

The push to defund Planned Parenthood has also been championed by Cruz, although he has deflected the idea that he and other Republican lawmakers would be shutting down the government if they refused to pass legislation that didn’t strip funding from the organization. But a...

Orrin Hatch went off on far-right conservatives who would shut down the federal government over funding for Planned Parenthood, an approach he called “downright stupid”.

A temporary funding measure that would keep the government open past a midnight deadline should make its way to President Barack Obama on Wednesday with time to spare.