Washington — Congress approved key portions of President Barack Obama's jobs plan Friday when they voted to extend a payroll tax cut and jobless benefits until the end of the year. The House passed the bill 293-132 after Democrats and Republicans struck

Washington— Congress passed a bill Friday to extend a payroll tax cut and jobless benefits until the end of the year after Democrats and Republicans struck a compromise deal this week. The House passed the bill 293-132, and the Senate by a 60-36 margin,

Posted on Feb 16, 2012 AP / Manuel Balce Ceneta House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis. , at podium, gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on Dec. 7, 2011, announcing a “comprehensive reform effort aimed to repair

Rep. Tom Price said today that he thought any deal to extend the payroll tax holiday without paying for it would lose significant Republican support even, potentially, his. Top negotiators today have a tentative deal to extend the payroll tax cut, unemp

Before President Obama came out with the 'compromise that wasn't' Friday afternoon on the HHS mandate his administration is forcing religious institutions to accept despite conscientious objections, Townhall spoke with Rep. Tom Price, the House GOP Polic

Heritage: Obama’s Contraception ‘Accommodation’ is ‘All Rhetoric’ Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) insisted that the president’s supposed walk-back of the contraception mandate “is all rhetoric” and does not address either the constitutional problems with the manda

WASHINGTON, DC — Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) shed his usual placid demeanor when discussing birth control for low-income women on Friday, telling ThinkProgress that “not one” woman doesn’t have access to contraception in the United States. Price, who serves as

The Obama White House has little interest in reaching a real compromise on the controversial rule mandating religious organizations provide birth control coverage to employees because it believes it has the to power to trample on religious freedom, Rep.

A day after Rick Santorum swept to three victories in the Republican race for the White House, the Obama Administration was staying focused on GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney, jabbing at him over a dispute on new rules under the Obama health law. "I mean thi

WASHINGTON Several bills designed to improve federal budgeting are making the rounds on Capitol Hill. There’s the Pro-Growth Budgeting Act, the Honest Budget Act, the Baseline Reform Act, and the Biennial Budgeting and Appropriations Act, to name a few.

The House on Thursday voted to take a "dynamic scoring" approach to assessing how legislation affects the economy, a budgetary method that Republicans say will help lawmakers make good decisions but Democrats say is a gimmick aimed at justifying tax cuts

President Obama stopped by the Washington Auto Show the other day, and seemed quite pleased to declare, "The U.S. auto industry is back." The president added, "[I]t's good to remember that the fact that there were some folks who were willing to let this

In a dramatic show of unity, AAFP leaders joined with their colleagues from other physician specialty organizations in pressing House and Senate members for a permanent Medicare payment solution during a series of Jan. 31 meetings on Capitol Hill. AAFP B

Republican Policy Committee Chairman Tom Price and other House conservatives said they hoped their retreat would re-energize Members before a tumultuous year. PHILADELPHIA – House Republican conservatives huddled here for the annual Heritage Foundation M

Chuck Todd really should have just stuck to being a pollster, because ever since Tim Russert brought him on at MSNBC, he really has gone from someone who used to be pretty good at analysis of voter trends and elections for Roll Call and with his regular

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President Barack Obama delivered an election-year broadside to Republicans: Game on. The GOP, from Congress to the campaign trail, signaled it's ready for the fight. In his third State of the Union address, Obama issued a populist call for income equalit

Saul Loeb-Pool/Getty ImagesPresident Obama renewed his pitch for economic equality during Tuesday night's State of the Union address, calling for increased taxes on the wealthy WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama delivered an election-year broadside to R

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama delivered an election-year broadside to Republicans: Game on. The GOP, from Congress to the campaign trail, signaled it's ready for the fight. In his third State of the Union address, Obama issued a populist call for i