Congress Returns to Unfinished Business
Washington — Congress returns on Tuesday with a critical need for a characteristic rarely evident through a contentious spring and summer: cooperation between Republicans and President Obama. Lawmakers face a weighty list of unfinished business and looming deadlines, including a stopgap spending bill to keep the government open beyond Sept. 30. The most intractable issues — a solution to a yearlong battle over agency budgets and a...
House Votes to Kill Medical Device Tax
Washington — The House defied a White House veto threat and voted Thursday to abolish a tax on medical device makers as a group of Democrats uncharacteristically joined Republicans in moving to kill part of President Obama’s health care law. Thursday’s 280-140 House vote was exactly the two-thirds margin that supporters would need to override a presidential veto. The real suspense will come in the Senate, which voted overwhelmingly to...
