Pete Kasperowicz

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The national debt is approaching the size of U.S. GDP and some worry the country will face a Greek tragedy: We have a debt crisis, can't fund programs that millions depend on, and sink forever in a sea of IOUs that strangles growth for generations. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call) (CQ Roll Call via AP Images)

Beltway Confidential

The era of big government has arrived

Pete Kasperowicz · February 9, 2018 3:00 pm

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., likened a potential partnership with Russia to cooperating with Syrian President Bashar Assad to reduce chemical weapons. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Marco Rubio encourages military coup in Venezuela

Pete Kasperowicz · February 9, 2018 2:35 pm

The Senate passed legislation shortly before 2 a.m. Friday, and the House followed up with a 5:30 a.m. vote to keep the government open. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump signs spending bill to end 8-hour shutdown

Pete Kasperowicz · February 9, 2018 1:45 pm

Nancy Pelosi and dozens of her colleagues voted against a short-term spending bill early Friday morning to protest the lack of any plan to hold a vote on immigration. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais

Nancy Pelosi: Paul Ryan lacks ‘courage’ to help Dreamers

Pete Kasperowicz · February 9, 2018 12:27 pm

A spokesman for Rand Paul said the senator was seeking a vote to restore the budget caps that members of both parties are looking to ignore in order to boost spending and nondefense spending in an omnibus spending bill they want to pass next month. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Rand Paul delaying Senate vote to avoid shutdown to protest budget deal

Pete Kasperowicz · February 8, 2018 9:20 pm

Republican leaders said Wednesday they support the deal as a way to ensure more defense spending, and note it would also create a bipartisan committee that will try to recommend new budgeting reforms. (iStock photo)

Conservatives accuse GOP of ditching fiscal restraint with new spending deal

Pete Kasperowicz · February 8, 2018 12:54 pm

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., is shown on television as she speaks from the House floor on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2018, as a news conference that she was supposed to attend goes on in the background. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Pelosi has ‘no intention’ of surrendering the House floor

Pete Kasperowicz · February 7, 2018 9:14 pm

Nancy Pelosi was protesting pending plans by Republicans to pass a government spending bill that doesn't include any language to help younger immigrants who came to the country illegally as children. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Nancy Pelosi launches House filibuster to demand vote on Dreamers

Pete Kasperowicz · February 7, 2018 4:10 pm

Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said, "I wish every American could spend some time with [President Trump], and you would see how much he loves our men and women in uniform, how much he loves this great country, how much he loves our military." (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

National Security

Jim Jordan: Trump wants a parade because ‘he loves our military’

Pete Kasperowicz · February 7, 2018 1:42 pm

Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., said the House Freedom Caucus has lost some leverage in this fight because it decided to back the short-term bill in the House, which also funded the military for the rest of the fiscal year. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Mark Meadows fears Congress is about to pass a ‘Christmas tree of spending’

Pete Kasperowicz · February 7, 2018 1:06 pm

"One who levels such a charge knows neither the meaning of treason nor the power that the words of a president carry," said Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Jeff Flake: ‘Treason is not a punchline, Mr. President’

Pete Kasperowicz · February 6, 2018 8:22 pm

"For years, members of Congress have gotten away with truly egregious behavior," said Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., left. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House passes anti-sexual harassment bills inspired by the #MeToo movement

Pete Kasperowicz · February 6, 2018 7:05 pm