Congress Prepares to Vote on Defunding ‘Sanctuary Cities’
The Senate is scheduled on Tuesday to vote on whether to take up a measure that would deny federal law enforcement funds to hundreds of communities where the authorities don’t automatically seek deportation of undocumented immigrants who come to their attention.
Today in Politics: Congress Returns From Break to Find a Vacuum, a Crisis and Clinton
Congress returns this week to warnings from the Treasury secretary, a leadership race that mirrors the will-he-or-won’t-he of Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s presidential deliberations, and infighting in the House committee investigating the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya.
Treasury’s Warning on Debt Limit Seen as Cudgel to Congress
In a letter to Speaker John A. Boehner, Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew warned that the government could run out of enough money to pay its obligations by Nov. 3 instead of Nov. 5, as previously predicted.
Congress Should Give the Government More Money for Wildfires
Pope Francis Skirts Environmental Tussles in Address to Congress
In addressing a polarized Congress, Pope Francis focuses on rights and needs more than resources and the environment.
