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December 20, 2015

House passes bill to cut bonuses at Dept. of Veterans Affairs

The VA currently pays $400 million in bonuses to its workers each year, but the bill caps total annual bonus payments at $345 million through fiscal year 2018.

December 20, 2015

Republican lobbying groups step up push on House to pass immigration reform

The issue has the potential to divide GOP lawmakers again after public in-party fighting over the recent budget negotiations.

December 20, 2015

Teachers' unions fight bill that would bar sex offenders from schools

The measure would require school systems to check state and federal criminal records for employees with unsupervised access to elementary and secondary school students, and for people seeking those jobs.聽

December 20, 2015

Speaker Boehner hopeful of immigration action this year

Speaker John Boehner expressed optimism on Wednesday about House action by year's end on stalled efforts to overhaul immigration as Republicans discussed possible limited steps to deal with the contentious issue.

December 20, 2015

Gabby Giffords attends first gun show since shooting

Former Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords has made her first visit to a gun show since surviving a 2011 assassination attempt.

December 20, 2015

Conservative activists turn up heat on Republicans in budget fight

Conservative activists gathered at the Values Voter Summit are calling on Republicans to embrace聽the Tea Party-backed refusal to support spending measures that fund ObamaCare, even as GOP lawmakers appeared to be scaling back some of their demands for ending the budget impasse.

December 20, 2015

The Hitchhiker鈥檚 Guide to where we stand with the government shutdown, debt ceiling

This is to put into context where things stand late Thursday and what went on in the White House meeting earlier in the afternoon between House Republicans and President Obama.

December 20, 2015

Democrats say House vote for back pay shows GOP wants government to stay closed

The Republican-led House passed a bill Saturday to give thousands of furloughed federal workers back pay when the government reopens, but Democrats promptly characterized it as a signal the GOP doesn鈥檛 want the partial shutdown to end.

December 20, 2015

Slimdown puts Syria, immigration, other key issues on back burners

The Capitol Hill budget debates to fund the federal government and end the partial shutdown has pushed aside other important work including immigration reform, imposing sanction on rogue nations and congressional investigations into the IRS scandal and the Benghazi terror attacks.

December 20, 2015

Republicans press Obama to back FEMA funding bill as storm nears

The budget showdown is about to collide with a major weather event.