Outside the Beltway

No wonder they wrote it in secret and want to move quickly to a vote…

In addition to everything else on its plate, Congress will have to revisit raising the debt ceiling again sometime this summer.

The polls are looking worse and worse for Donald Trump.

Greg Gianforte assaulted a reporter. Now he’s going to Congress, but the outcome of the election really shouldn’t be a surprise.

The latest CBO score for the American Health Care Act is bad news for Republicans.

The Republican candidate in today’s Special Election in Montana has been charged with assaulting a reporter.

A new poll shows that a majority of Americans oppose the American Health Care Act.

Republicans are finding that their constituents aren’t very happy about the passage of the American Health Care Act.

The American Health Care Act may have sailed through the House, but the Senate is another story.

As usual, an attempt to explain congressional behavior brings us back to the issue of our basic institutions. The way we elect congress matters.

By the barest of margins, the House passed its bill repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, but the future of that bill is highly uncertain.

After failing twice in a month, House Republicans apparently think they have the votes to pass their bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

House Republicans are making yet another push to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, but they once again may not have the votes.

An assessment of the 45th President’s first 100 days.

Once again, the GOP punts on ‘repeal and replace’ because they don’t have the votes.

The Freedom Caucus may be mollified, but moderate Republicans and the Senate aren’t. Meaning that repeal and replacement of Obamacare is becoming less likely.

The Trump Administration is out with a tax plan, but it’s seriously lacking in details.

Donald Trump has basically declared war on the people who blocked the AHCA from passing last week.

Republicans are saying that repealing the PPACA isn’t off the table, but practically speaking it probably is.

The failure of the AHCA shows that Donald Trump doesn’t know the slightest thing about leadership or how to be President.

A major legislative defeat for Paul Ryan, the House GOP, and President Trump.

The Trump Administration has issued an ultimatum, but the fate of the American Health Care Act is still very much up in the air.

With a vote tentatively scheduled for this evening, House Republicans appear to lack the votes to pass the American Health Care Act.

Part Two in a series of observations about health care and health insurance in light of the introduction of the House GOP’s health care plan. This post examines several ideas advanced by conservatives, and the reasons they aren’t complete answers to the problems we face.

The Congressional Budget Office delivered some bad news yesterday to House Republicans on their replacement for Obamacare.

Health care policy analysts seem united in their assessment of the House GOP’s replacement for the Affordable Care Act, and it’s overwhelmingly negative.

Whether you call it TrumpCare, RyanCare, or GOPCare, the Republican replacement for the PPACA isn’t very impressive.

Can the GOP govern? Do they want to or know how to? (Does it matter?).

One month in, some Trump supporters are starting to wonder if he will actually deliver on what he promised.

On the eve of the 115th Congress, House Republicans voted to gut a key office charged with investigating Congressional ethics.

Get ready for more hearings if Hillary Clinton becomes President.

Paul Ryan is abandoning the Trump campaign.

House Republicans are vowing to continue their investigations even if Hillary Clinton wins the White House.

As with each previous committee that investigated the 2012 attack on the U.S outpost in Benghazi, the House Select Committee finds that mistakes were made but no evidence of wrongdoing or cover-ups.

A small group of Republican delegates is apparently discussing yet another quixotic effort to deny Donald Trump the nomination.

The man who was brought in to clean up the I.R.S. after the alleged targeting scandal became public is facing censure and possible impeachment. Proving that there really is such a thing as a thankless job.

A Federal Court has ruled that the Administration violated the law when it spent funds allocated under the PPACA for purposes other than those authorized by Congress.

Paul Ryan is declining to back Donald Trump for the time being, but other Republicans are making their own choices.

Five months after becoming Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan seems to be running into some of the same difficulties that John Boehner did.

If Donald Trump is the Republican nominee, the GOP may have more to worry about than losing the White House and the Senate.

The final spending bill for the 2016 Fiscal Year sailed through Congress today, marking the end of a very successful first two months in office for Speaker Paul Ryan

A Colorado Republican Congressman has introduced a resolution meant to involve our nation’s representatives in the non-existent ‘War On Christmas.’

Much more so than in the past, the race for the Republican Presidential race has become a battle to define what it means to be a ‘conservative.’ Especially on issues like immigration and national security, one side seems to be winning the battle.

Virginia Democrats tried to capture control of the Virginia State Senate by, in part, emphasizing gun control issues. The fact that they failed is instructive.

More good news for Hillary Clinton, and a sign that the race for the Democratic nomination, to the extent there really is a race at this point, is close to being over.

Paul Ryan’s admission that immigration reform will not happen as long as Barack Obama is President simply reflects the reality of immigration politics in Congress.

As expected, the Senate easily passed the two-year budget deal early this morning.