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Boehner floats six-month transport funding extension

August 23, 2021 at 8:55 a.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Signaling that hopes for a deal on a transportation construction bill may be fading, U.S. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner on Thursday floated the idea of...

Boehner floats six-month transport funding extension

May 23, 2019 at 3:58 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Signaling that hopes for a deal on a transportation construction bill may be fading, U.S. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner on Thursday floated the idea of...

Unchanged tax, health policies to explode U.S. debt: CBO

August 23, 2021 at 8:50 a.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. public debt would balloon to twice the size of the nation's economy in 25 years if current tax and spending policies are extended, Congress' budget referee...

Unchanged tax, health policies to explode U.S. debt: CBO

December 24, 2018 at 6:08 a.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. public debt would balloon to twice the size of the nation's economy in 25 years if current tax and spending policies are extended, Congress' budget referee...

U.S. House rejects sex-selection abortion ban

August 23, 2021 at 8:23 a.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday rejected Republican legislation banning abortions based on the sex of the fetus in a vote that keeps the election-year spotlight...

Boehner holds firm on no tax-hike pledge

August 23, 2021 at 8:26 a.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner on Thursday dismissed suggestions that Republicans were warming to raising revenue as a part of a plan to cut the...

Boehner holds firm on no tax-hike pledge

December 24, 2018 at 5:37 a.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner on Thursday dismissed suggestions that Republicans were warming to raising revenue as a part of a plan to cut the...

Obama, Republicans clash over U.S. debt limit increase

August 23, 2021 at 6:53 a.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - If Republican and Democratic leaders want to avoid a reprise of last year's nasty showdown over raising the federal debt limit, they are not off to a...

House Speaker Boehner reopens debt limit brawl

May 23, 2019 at 3:56 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner drew an election-year battle line over the U.S. borrowing limit on Tuesday, saying he would back another increase at year-end only...

Old feud appears to sink Obama’s Fed nominees

December 24, 2018 at 2:38 a.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's two nominees to the Federal Reserve appear likely to fall victim to a long-running political feud, which would leave the central bank short-handed as...

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