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President Obama is threatening to veto a House Republican plan to address the debt ceiling standoff, which includes a proposed balanced budget ...

Struggling to avert a government shutdown, Republicans and Democrats each said Wednesday the other would be to blame if compromise talks on the budget fail to produce an agreement.

Congress and the White House veered toward a fiscal collision on Tuesday as the Obama administration rejected a short-term House Republican demand to cut $12 billion now in exchange for keeping the government open for one more week. At the same time, the Republicans’ budget chairman set forth a longer-range blueprint defining a new era of profoundly smaller government and steep tax cuts for corporations and individuals.

Republicans now running the House are barely touching Congress' generous own budget even as they take a cleaver to many domestic agencies....

House Republicans plan to bring up a vote to repeal the health-care overhaul early in the new Congress that opens Wednesday, at least before President Obama delivers his State of the Union address later this month, a key Republican lawmaker said Sunday.

Another tea party-backed House member gunning for a key position in the next Congress is getting the cold shoulder from ...

During Thursday event, GOP will unveil set of proposals that party would look to enact if they gain control of Congress after midterm elections.