At about 10:30 pm Friday evening, Boehner and Reid reached an agreement to avert a government shutdown. Here is the reaction from Americans for Limited Government (ALG) President Bill Wilson , who praised House Speaker John Boehner for getting $38.5 billion in more cuts to the 2011 […]

Should negotiations collapse between Speaker Boehner and Senate Democrats, the House is prepared to drop a bill which would keep the military funded in the event of a government shutdown. Per Dave Weigel at Slate: Because the Senate won’t pass the House’s one-week continuing resolution, which cuts $12 billion of […]

Discussions are continuing behind closed doors on Capitol Hill, but at this point, it appears that no deal will be reached before midnight tonight. The latest from Speaker Boehner is this : “We just met with all of our Members to try to bring them as up to speed as we can, […]

Fellow NRD contributor Rick Manning created a “Top 10” list of reasons that Harry Reid wants a “shutdown” over at The Hill’s Pundits Blog . Here are his top 10: Top 10 Reasons Why Harry Reid Wants a Federal Government Shutdown (with apologies to a certain over-the-hill late-night talk-show host) 10: […]

House Speaker John Boehner blamed Democrats’ unwillingness to cut spending for the impending “shutdown” of government. If the Senate fails to take action on the troop funding measure that sits before them today, the government will shut down at midnight tonight. Speaker Boehner spoke earlier […]

Courtesy of Mark Tapscott at the Washington Examiner , here is a brief timeline of how we have arrived at the impending shutdown: Here’s what’s happened in the intervening months, according to Don Seymour, a senior aide to Boehner: · April 15, 2010 – The Democrat-run Congress misses the deadline under […]

Earlier this week, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) spoke on this website about the failed leadership from the White Hous e . Now, Hatch is going after the Senate Democrats as well for refusing to pay the military in the event of a government shutdown . Hatch said the following late yesterday about the Democrats refusing to fund the military : “Because the Democrats in this chamber will not accept the modest spending reductions in H.R. 1, the House […]

By Victor Morawski – Many Conservatives over the past year — myself among them — have viewed former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty as a credible option for the 2012 Republican Nomination. Some of the faith of his possible supporters has been shaken recently by the […]

By Kevin Mooney — Thanks to the ingenuity and vision of key activists who are going local rather than fixating on Washington, D.C., the Tea Party is in position to challenge the power and influence of state level green groups. For decades, well-funded environmental activists […]

UPDATE: The troop funding bill just passed in the House —> 247-181. More detail on this legislation can be found here . It now appears that a “shutdown” is going to happen. And the fault of the “shutdown” will be on the shoulders of Harry Reid and Barack Obama . Why? Because Obama is threatening to veto the only piece of legislation that has been proposed to keep it open . Why is Obama vetoing? Simply put, the legislation would defund Planned […]