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No apologies: House Budget Committee member Tom Cole defends GOP spending by saying, "Republicans believe in low taxes and less regulation. I think that's why God made Republicans." (Associated Press)

House Republicans adding to debt as balanced budget commitment wavers

After initial success in cutting federal spending and reducing deficits, House Republicans have drifted into the red with a series of tax measures and spending bills that are not offset — either adding to the pile of debt or hiding the costs with accounting gimmicks.

August 5, 2014
White House press secretary Josh Earnest says that Congress should take the necessary steps to close the loopholes that American companies use to move their headquarters overseas as a way to avoid paying corporate taxes. (associated press)

Obama may use executive action on tax code

Under growing pressure from some Senate Democrats, the White House on Tuesday left open the possibility President Obama will use executive authority to reform the nation's tax code.

August 5, 2014
FILE - This June 25, 2014, file photo shows a group of immigrants from Honduras and El Salvador who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally are stopped in Granjeno, Texas. The influx at the border is largely families with children or by minors traveling alone. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

House Democrats hit GOP on border bill

House Democrats on Monday launched a Spanish-language web ad attacking Republicans for passing a border bills that it says ignores a humanitarian crisis on the border in favor of deporting children.

August 4, 2014
** FILE ** In this May 27, 2014, file photo, Donald Trump speaks at a National Press Club luncheon in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Donald Trump: Fight Ebola at the border

Billionaire celebrity Donald Trump on Monday called for the United States to seal itself off from a possible Ebola virus epidemic, denying Americans infected with the deadly disease and all travelers from West Africa entry into the United States.

August 4, 2014
Speaker of the House John Boehner of Ohio, walks past reporters following a closed-door meeting of House Republicans on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014, to discuss the border crisis. House Republicans expressed optimism that a revised, $694 million bill addressing the surge of immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border would win over reluctant conservatives and give a divided GOP a political win. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House GOP resurrects border bill, predicts successful Friday vote

House Republicans resurrected their border bill Friday morning and said they were on track to pass the rewritten measure later in the day — though with the Senate gone for the summer the vote will be more a political statement than a policy-making exercise.

August 1, 2014
A stuffed bear and children's book sit on a child's bed the Karnes County Residential Center in Karnes City, Texas on Thursday, July 31, 2014. Federal officials gave a tour of the South Texas immigration detention facility that has been retooled to house adults with children who have been apprehended at the border. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Congress leaves Obama holding the burden of border children

In a last gasp of futility, the House and Senate failed to get their border bills passed Thursday, and lawmakers heading into a five-week recess are leaving President Obama with no extra funding and no additional powers to grapple with a surge of children in the U.S. illegally.

July 31, 2014

Lawmakers rattled by Syria genocide horrors, call on Obama to act

A Syrian defector pleaded before a House panel Thursday for U.S. help fighting Syrian President Bashar Assad, as he presented gruesome photographs of emaciated and mutilated dead bodies that he said were victims of torture and murder in the regime's prisons.

July 31, 2014
Sen. John Thune, South Dakota Republican (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Sen. John Thune aims at union corruption

A top Senate Republican is introducing legislation Wednesday that would restore financial transparency rules for labor unions that President Obama nixed shortly after taking office in 2009, The Washington Times has learned.

July 30, 2014
FILE - This March 5, 2014 file photo shows former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) official Lois Lerner speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. A federal judge is ordering the IRS to explain _ under oath _ how it lost a trove of emails to and from a central figure in the agency's tea party controversy. U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan gave the tax agency a month to submit the explanation in writing. Sullivan issued the order Thursday as part of a freedom of information lawsuit by Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group. The IRS says it lost the emails in 2011 when Lois Lerner’s computer crashed. At the time, Lerner headed the IRS division that processes applications for tax-exempt status. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke, File)

Lois Lerner hated conservatives, new emails show

Newly released emails by Lois Lerner, the former IRS official at the center of the tea party targeting scandal, show "deep animus towards conservatives, which she refers to as '—holes,'" according to a House committee.

July 30, 2014
White House press secretary Josh Earnest said "not that I'm aware of," when asked Tuesday whether the administration had coordinated with Democratic fundraising groups to gin up impeachment scares. (associated press photographs)

Boehner says impeachment talk is Democratic fundraising ploy

House Speaker John A. Boehner on Tuesday flatly ruled out trying to impeach President Obama, but the mere possibility — floated by both conservative commentators and the White House itself — has already been a major boon to Democratic fundraising.

July 29, 2014
displaced: Detainees play while others sleep in a holding cell at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection processing facility in Brownsville, Texas. Such installations have handled more than 47,000 unaccompanied alien children. (Associated Press)

Obama mum on where illegal immigrant children are sheltered

The Obama administration is concealing key details about its response to the surge of unaccompanied children illegally crossing the southern border, including where the unaccompanied minors are being sheltered and the circumstances under which some are set free inside the U.S.

July 29, 2014

House GOP ready to move border bill

House Republican leaders decided to move forward with a vote next week on measure to address the border crisis, including a measure strongly opposed by Democrats that would repeal a 2008 law that delays immigration hearings for children from Central America.

July 25, 2014
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, meets with Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina (right) and Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez on Thursday. Mr. Hernandez said ambiguity in Washington's immigration debate has helped human smugglers convince Central Americans that they can stay in the U.S. if they make the long, illegal journey. (Associated Press)

Presidents of Honduras, Guatemala blame U.S. for border children crisis

A day before meeting with President Obama at the White House to discuss the border crisis, the presidents of Honduras and Guatemala blamed the wave of unaccompanied children inundating the U.S. on American foreign policy and on gridlock in Congress over immigration reform.

July 24, 2014