Outside the Beltway

There’s a way for President Obama and Speaker Boehner to talk out a deal to resolve the current crisis, but they have to want to do it.

To borrow a phrase from Stephen Colbert, if you want to understand how Congress works, you better know a District.

Ted Cruz wants his fellow Republicans to follow him down the rabbit hole again.

Speaker Boehner sends a signal that there won’t be a quick resolution to the government shutdown crisis.

The outlines of a possible new GOP proposal are emerging. Can it go anywhere?

One of the dumber aspects of the current shutdown repeats itself.

The Pentagon is recalling up to 300,000 furloughed civilian employees on the same day that Congress voted to pay all furloughed employees when the government reopens.

The government shutdown is starting to have effects in the “real world.”

The Republican candidate for Governor of Virginia wants a quick end to the Government Shutdown.

Democrats in the House will attempt to use an obscure House procedure to force an end to the government shutdown. It’s success is by no means guaranteed.

The “Hastert Rule” isn’t the reason Speaker Boehner isn’t bringing a “clean” CR up for a vote, political survival is.

Speaker Boehner told his caucus members that he will not allow a default over the debt ceiling but don’t look for a change in strategy.

The first poll taken after the shutdown began has little good news for the Republican Party.

A comment from one Congressman sums up the attitude of the small group of Congressman and Senators who have placed us in this situation.

President Obama had some potentially market-moving news for Wall Street.

If you want to understand why Republicans in Congress are acting like they are, just look at the polls.

There’s no sign that the government shutdown will end any time soon.

Congress is still getting paid during the shutdown, and there’s nothing that can be done about that.

The news PPACA controversy appears to be based on a complete misunderstanding of one provision of the law.

With just hours to go, the Republicans on Capitol Hill seem prepared to take a big political risk.

The GOP seems perfectly fine with risking a shutdown, even though polling shows they’d pay the biggest price for it.

Republicans don’t seem willing to let go of the Obamacare issue just yet. But, how long will that actually last?

It’s now clear that, absent an unlikely miracle, there will be a government shutdown.

The House will reportedly vote on a new Continuing Resolution with conditions that would seem to make a shutdown inevitable.

Ted Cruz is going after the Speaker of the House.

Ted Cruz is holding the Senate floor “until I can no longer speak,” but he still won’t be able to stop the Senate from going forward.

If recent history is any guide, there won’t really be a government shutdown next week. But, the zealotry of the “defund Obamacare” caucus could change everything.