On his way out the door, then-Speaker Boehner did his best to “clean up the barn” for incoming Speaker Paul Ryan. Notably, he negotiated a budget deal with President Obama that, among other things, raised the top-line budget number for the FY 2016 appropriations process. The deal represented a compromise
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November 2015
This Week in Congress – November 2, 2015
By Kaitlyn McClure on
Posted in Congressional Action
After a tumultuous October, Congress returns to work in a new month under Standard Time and with a new Speaker of the House, Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, who has pledged: “We are wiping the slate clean.” And after last week’s historic events on Capitol Hill, this week will be…
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