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Russell Berman talked by video link from Capitol Hill about the resignation of Representative Eric Cantor (R-VA) as House majority leader. The day after losing his House primary race, Repres…

Russell Berman spoke by phone about the decision by House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) to create a select committee to investigate the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi…

Russell Berman previewed the week in Congress. He was interviewed by phone.

On the day of the deadline to sign up for health insurance through the Affordable Care Act’s Healthcare.gov, telephone lines were open for viewer comments on their experiences using the Web …

Russell Berman talked about House Speaker John Boehner’s decision to allow a vote to raise the debt ceiling in a “clean” bill, i.e., containing no policy attachments. The House approved the …

Russell Berman reported on the Republican Party’s immigration agenda.

Russell Berman was interviewed via Skype about the Senate vote to extend emergency unemployment benefits.

Russell Berman was interviewed by Skype about a House Republican legislative plan to tie together the continuing resolution to fund the federal government past September 30, 2013, with a bil…

Telephone lines were open for viewer comments on the 113th Congress. Russell Berman talked about House Republicans pulling the Transportation and HUD funding bill off the docket for floor fo…

Representative Steve Scalise (R-LA), the new chair of the Republican Study Committee (RSC), discussed congressional debate over spending and taxes and other topics, including energy policy a…

Russell Berman was interviewed via Skype about the “fiscal cliff.” “Fiscal cliff” referred to the impending tax increases and sequestration budget cuts at the end of 2012 if Congress failed…

Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, discussed the “fiscal cliff,” the impending tax increases and budget cuts at the end of 2012 if Congress fails to agree on a new budge…

Russell Berman was interviewed by phone about the House vote later in the morning to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress. He also talked about congressional work on stu…

Representative Tom Price (R-GA), a surgeon and the Republican Policy Committee chair, talked about his party’s perspective on the 2010 health care law. He also discussed tax policy and budge…

Russell Berman spoke about a luncheon meeting between the president and congressional leaders in which they discussed the federal budget proposal without reaching any agreement.

Russell Berman was interviewed by phone about the House Republican alternative budget plan (H.R. 4966) to the 2011 Budget Control Act. H.R. 4966 would replace defense cuts included in the 20…

Republican Study Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) talked about the reasons he supports House Budget Committee Chair Paul Ryan’s fiscal year 2013 budget plan, which was passed by the House e…

Russell Berman talked bout the legislative agenda in the House, which included consideration of several measures to continue federal spending for the near future.

Russell Berman spoke by phone about the previous day House vote on a continuing resolution to fund the government through November 12. The bill, which was tied to disaster aid funding, faile…

Telephone lines were open for comments on the approaches being considered by congressional leaders to raising the debt ceiling and reducing the long term budget deficit . Russell Berman talk…