Tag: john boehner

It was a powerful image of the shutdown theater at its most absurd: The Capitol Police government officers protecting the people who closed down the government for no good reason.

We're sticking with shutdown news as the House GOP sticks with the shutdown -- unless we blink, because we don't want to watch it. Because who can watch it? But we have to watch it. Because we can't look away!

Latest Washington game: Get your bets down now on when the madness of the government shutdown ends. It could be a while.

Three years of squabbling, name-calling, obstruction, rank bitterness and lost elections later, the Tea Party has finally brought its government shutdown to the people.

Here comes the shutdown. How did John Boehner get himself (and us) into this mess?

This is a difficult period for many Democrats. They don't know quite what to do.

A Republican-controlled congressional body this week used a controversial new parenting study to argue that the Defense of Marriage Act is constitutional.

Chevron is giving up its experimental oil shale lease in Western Colorado. The company is one of only three companies holding a federal lease to research oil shale development in Colorado but officials say they would rather pursue other projects.

A bill designed to encourage oil shale development cruised through the House on Thursday evening. But a wind production tax credit didn't fly, and now layoffs and abandoned projects loom.

Asked why he was Colorado's lone congressional holdout in calling for the extension of the wind tax credit, U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn answered his "preference is to help industry grow by reducing federal regulations and mandates as opposed to carving out special interests in the tax code.”