Outside the Beltway

Some Members of Congress are talking about pushing a bill imposing new sanction on Iran despite the deal reached in Geneva yesterday.

Yesterday’s change to the filibuster rule is likely to have little impact outside the beltway and the political chattering class.

It wasn’t a Thermonuclear move, more like something the size of Hiroshima, but today the Senate took an historic move nonetheless.

After the GOP blocked a series of Obama judicial nominees, Democrats are again threatening to go nuclear on filibuster reform.

When it comes to the unfolding conflict inside the GOP, Mitch McConnell seems to have fired an opening shot.

The Employment Non-Discrimination Act passed the Senate yesterday but it’s unlikely to go much further.

A majority of Americans now disapprove of President Obama’s performance and a whopping 70 percent think the country is moving in the wrong direction.

Immigration reform may be the next big battle on Capitol Hill, but it’s going to be far different from the one that just concluded.

Would you trust the men and women in this building?

A plan finally starting to come together?

The House wasted a day yesterday, now it’s crunch time.

It looks like the House will be making its move before the Senate acts, but that may actually help resolve this faster.

The deal emerging out of the talks between Senator Reid and Senator McConnell is about what you’d expect, but it’s probably the best we can expect right now.

Are these four men our last, best hope for a deal that will end the shutdown and avoid breaching the debt ceiling?

Talks between the two Senate leaders haven’t exactly gone so well.

Harry and Mitch to the rescue?

The Whack-A-Pol Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

If one considers oneself to be conservative, ask if the the actions of the GOP at the moment conform to that term..

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

The Defense Department might open for business while the rest of government remains shut down.

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

Nick Gillespie advances the counterintuitive argument that President Obama is responsible for today’s government shutdown.

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.

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.

Nobody has moved a piece yet, but the outcome of the Obamacare battle in the Senate seems foreordained.

Ted Cruz becomes a little more honest about his plan to “defund” Obamacare.

With Congress coming back Monday, the prospective vote counts are decidedly against authorizing military force against Syria.

Not surprisingly, Congressional leaders on both sides of the aisle are lining up behind the President in the debate over Syria.