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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (left) and House Speaker John A. Boehner lead the Republican-controlled Congress, but they have found themselves at a standstill over provisions attached to a Homeland Security spending bill aimed at blocking President Obama's executive actions on immigration. Republican strategists warn that the White House has a bigger "microphone." (Associated Press)

Homeland Security funding threat wrong Republican message, strategists say

The deck is stacked against the Republican-run Congress in a showdown with President Obama over Homeland Security Department funding, and the party's congressional leaders likely will be forced to back down if they don't quickly shift tactics, a GOP strategist warned Monday.

February 16, 2015
Rep. Peter T. King, New York Republican, said that his hearings on homegrown Muslim terrorism in 2011 have been vindicated in the ensuing years after many American Muslims have traveled overseas to join the Islamic State organization's ongoing campaign of terror. (associated press)

Peter T. King says Islamic State terror justifies 2011 Muslim House hearings

Rep. Peter T. King's series of hearings on the threat of homegrown Islamic terrorists in 2011 had Democratic lawmakers and Muslim-American groups screaming "witch hunt" and "Islamophobia," but the rising body count in attacks by radicalized Muslims who turn on their own countrymen has all but silenced the critics as a House committee takes up the issue again Wednesday.

February 10, 2015
President Obama is pushing Congress to grant him fast-track trade authority, which would allow him to independently negotiate trade deals and then bring them to Congress for an up-or-down vote without amendments or filibuster. (Associated Press)

Obama Asia trade deal, Trans-Pacific Partnership, in jeopardy amid bipartisan opposition

The trade agreement that is the linchpin of President Obama's Asia policy is in jeopardy of breaking apart because of a lack of trust on Capitol Hill on both sides of the partisan aisle, with opposition mounting from tea party Republicans and rank-and-file Democrats who don't have faith in the president's ability to negotiate a good deal.

February 9, 2015

Obama trade policy riles Democrats representing middle class

The political jabs hurled Thursday at President Obama sounded like the sorts of attacks he usually launches at Republicans, but it was a faction of House Democrats slamming the president for pursuing trade policies they say are hurting the same people he is trying to help with his "middle-class economics" pitch.

February 5, 2015
"The president has always shown a penchant for increasing the size of government and increasing the reach of government," said House Committee on the Budget Chairman Tom Price, Georgia Republican. "It's hard to have a government that isn't as regulatory and prescriptive as the president wants without having more people." (Associated Press)

Obama budget calls for largest federal civilian workforce since Cold War

The federal civilian workforce will reach its highest level since the end of the Cold War under the budget President Obama submitted to Congress on Monday, surging by more than 100,000 employees over the next two years as he tries to restock agencies he says have been decimated by GOP-led cuts.

February 2, 2015
Rep. Steve Israel, New York Democrat (Associated Press) **FILE**

Steve Israel dances around ‘redistribution’ in Democrats’ tax plan

The House Democrats' message guru touted plans to push rhetoric about championing the middle class and malign Republicans for siding with wealthy elite, but avoided using the word "redistribution" to characterize the party's plan to increase taxes on the rich to pay for tax breaks and other benefits for the middle class.

January 29, 2015
Rep. Steve Israel of New York, who headed up House Democrats' campaign operation last year and now runs the Policy and Communications Committee, said Tuesday that his party had quickly regained its footing after taking a beating in the November elections. (Associated Press)

House Democrats, emboldened by Republican stumbles, rally around populist tax agenda

House Democrats are feeling emboldened as they head to their annual issues conference and a pep talk from President Obama in Philadelphia this week, relishing a series of stumbles by the Republican majorities in Congress and rallying around a populist tax-the-rich agenda that they are convinced will score points with voters.

January 27, 2015