Pelosi condemns House measure defunding Obamacare

"This place is a mess," House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said, warning that the House is inviting a government shutdown

• Sep 20, 2013
• 05:12

Official who led Benghazi probe defends decision to not interview Clinton

Thomas Pickering, the ambassador who led a State Department probe of last year's Benghazi, Libya, attack says the review was not a whitewash

• Sep 20, 2013
• 02:44

Obamacare takes center stage in budget standoff

Republicans want to gut the healthcare law, but Democrats aren't having it, and a government shutdown looms if they can't bridge the divide

• Sep 19, 2013
• 01:18

Cruz: "Yes," I will filibuster to defund Obamacare if necessary

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, says he will do "everything necessary and anything possible to defund Obamacare"

• Sep 19, 2013
• 01:30

Reid: "Any bill that defunds Obamacare is dead"

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says Republicans' drive to defund Obamacare during the budget fight is a "waste of time"

• Sep 19, 2013
• 01:26

Boehner: Obamacare repeal in Senate's hands

House Speaker John Boehner pushes Senate Republicans to stand firm against Obamacare, again rules out debt ceiling hike without spending cuts

• Sep 19, 2013
• 02:56

W.H.: Obama "has twisted arms" to secure budget deal

White House spokesman Jay Carney defends President Obama's approach to budget negotations

• Sep 18, 2013
• 02:08

Kennedy: Despite Benghazi reforms, diplomats "will face attacks again"

Under Secretary of State Patrick Kennedy says the State Department can mitigate - but not eliminate - the dangers faced by diplomats serving abroad

• Sep 18, 2013
• 03:13

Why somebody has to blink on the budget standoff

Both parties insist they don't want to shut down the government over budget fights, but Democrats won't accept Republican demands to defund Obamacare

• Sep 18, 2013
• 07:03

Carney: GOP, not White House, threatening debt default

White House press secretary notes that only Congress has the authority to raise the government's borrowing authority

• Sep 18, 2013
• 02:10

Engel: Obama no more responsible for Benghazi than Bush was for 9/11

Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., says Republicans should stop "pointing fingers" about the September 2012 attack on a U.S. outpost in Benghazi, Libya

• Sep 18, 2013
• 02:25

Royce: State Dept. was "asleep" during Benghazi

Rep. Ed Royce, R-Calif., criticizes the "troubling lack of accountability" within the State Department over the September 2012 attack in Benghazi

• Sep 18, 2013
• 03:28

Obama: GOP using budget, debt limit fights to "extort"

President Obama says Republicans are irresponsibly threatening a shutdown - or a default on U.S. debt - if they don't get their way on repealing Obamacare

• Sep 18, 2013
• 03:58

Boehner: "No interest" in a government shutdown

House Speaker John Boehner says Republicans will try to use budget fights to defund Obamacare, but they aren't angling for a government shutdown

• Sep 18, 2013
• 01:27

Reid: Willing to try "anything" to move gun control legislation

Following the shooting at Washington Navy Yard, Senate majority leader says he's willing to emphasize mental health issues if it brings the GOP on board with gun control

• Sep 17, 2013
• 01:18

Obama warns "extreme" Republicans against letting economy "tank"

Five years after the 2008 financial crisis, President Obama warns Republicans against sending the economy into another tailspin by holding up looming budget issues in Congress

• Sep 16, 2013
• 01:22

Luntz: Federal debt limit sours debate national conversation again

Republicans and Democrats in Washington are arguing over the federal debt limit again

• Sep 16, 2013
• 04:30

GOP warns of "fraud and abuse" with Obamacare subsidies

Rep. Diane Black, R-Tenn., says the government should verify income eligibility before subsidizing insurance

• Sep 14, 2013
• 03:13

Biden: "Neanderthal" GOP slowed domestic abuse legislation

Vice President Biden expresses amazement that some in the Republican caucus threatened the renewal of the Violence Against Women Act

• Sep 13, 2013
• 02:43

Could GOP hostility to Obamacare force a government shutdown?

As Republicans seek a way forward on the budget, some in their ranks insist on a deal that unravels the president's health care law

• Sep 13, 2013
• 03:41

W.H. "will not accept" Obamacare delay in budget negotiations

White House spokesman Jay Carney says Congress should pass a budget without any politically motivated attachments

• Sep 12, 2013
• 01:46

Reid: GOP playing "juvenile political games" on budget

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says Republicans will do anything to undermine the government's ability to function: "The anarchists are winning"

• Sep 12, 2013
• 02:43

McConnell: Organized labor turning against Obamacare

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., claims the AFL-CIO came "very close" to calling for the "outright repeal" of Obamacare

• Sep 12, 2013
• 01:03

Syria debate scrambles traditional party divisions

Democrats and Republicans are divided among themselves on the president's call for military action in response to a Syrian chemical attack

• Sep 6, 2013
• 03:39

Paul: If W.H. defies Congress vote on Syria, "you're making a joke of us"

GOP senator challenges Secretary of State John Kerry to pledge that if Congress votes down the resolution to strike Syria, the president won't "go ahead and do the bombing anyway"

• Sep 3, 2013
• 02:42

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