Harry Reid Most Unpopular Congressional Leader
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[caption id="attachment_4177" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Senate Majority Leader
The House voted Friday to keep the government open through mid-December but only if Congress strips funding from ObamaCare. The vote was 230 to 189, and largely expected. A test vote on Thursday cleared the measure by 230 – 192, with a few more House members voting “yes” in the real vote.
So much for balance. In a classic argument for starving the beast in Washington, the United States ran another budget deficit in July, although government revenues increased from a year earlier due to tax hikes and tepid economic growth, a report from the Treasury showed on Monday.
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Monday, a bipartisan group of lawmakers sent a letter to Capitol Hill to advocate for reforms to the defense budget. The article Monday dove into the letter, as well as some of President’s Eisenhower’s warnings to the American people of the military-industrial complex.
