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  • President Obama arrives Tuesday at the Capitol to meet with the Senate Democratic Caucus.

    Congress will take the first steps toward an orderly budget process, beginning what both parties hope is a move away from quick fixes. But the plans will be miles apart ideologically.

  • Latest GOP Budget Is Ambitious, Unlikely to Pass Tuesday, 12 Mar 2013 | 1:28 PM ET
    Paul Ryan

    Rep. Paul Ryan called his third budget an "invitation" to President Barack Obama and Senate Democrats to begin bargaining toward a deal to balance the budget.

  • ARRRGH! Entrepreneurs Vent About Obamacare Costs Friday, 8 Mar 2013 | 10:31 AM ET

    A GOP-led panel has been listening to entrepreneurs vent about Obamacare. And boy do they have a lot to say.

  • Gridlock, Then and Now Friday, 8 Mar 2013 | 11:02 AM ET
    House Speaker John Boehner listens as President Obama gives his 2013 State of the Union address.

    Bitter partisanship, ideological clashes, and relentless obstruction have been woven through Washington from the beginning. What is new is the divisions fall along mutually reinforcing lines.

  • Can Partisanship Be Fixed? Friday, 8 Mar 2013 | 11:25 AM ET
    Members of each party sit mixed during President Barack Obama's State of the Union address to a joint session of the U.S. Congress.

    Solutions for overcoming the partisanship that produces political gridlock in Washington.

  • 11 Historic Fights Worse Than the Sequester Tuesday, 12 Mar 2013 | 12:05 PM ET

    We're tired of hearing about the sequester and its brutal budget cuts. But this is standard operating procedure in American politics, historians say.

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  • The IRS' Lois Lerner speaks before refusing to testify at a House hearing on May 22, 2013.

    Lois Lerner, the IRS official at the center of the alleged Tea Party targeting, has been placed on administrative leave.

  • House of Representatives on Thursday voted to switch federal student loan interest rates to a market-based system.

  • President Obama is giving a speech on counterterrorism in Washington, specifically addressing the use of drones, with CNBC's John Harwood.

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