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Two days before the U.S. reaches its debt ceiling, Congresswoman Virginia Foxx announced today House Republicans are working to pass a bipartisan solution to end the shutdown and raise the federal borrowing limit. Read more »

Speaker Boehner has kept the majority of his conference intact by refusing to acquiesce to either the Senate or the White House. The President on Thursday rejected the Speaker’s plan to raise the debt ceiling for six weeks to engage in broader budget negotiations. Read more »

The House on Friday voted to go to conference with the Senate on a farm bill, advancing a long-stalled bill that had to be split in two pieces in order to pass the House this year. Read more »

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., joined by fellow Republicans, speaks to reporters following a closed-door GOP meeting at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2013. Read more »

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Steel Bridge Team was invited to participate inAmerican Iron and Steel Institute's "Steel Day" event, held on October 4, 2013 in Washington, D.C. at AISI's downtown headquarters. Read more »

Congresswoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) voted today to direct the Department of Defense to immediately issue survivor benefits to families of fallen military service personnel. The Honoring Families of Fallen Soldiers Act (H.J.Res. 91) passed unanimously from the House of Representatives. Read more »

The essay, published Oct. 9, is featured in a series in which women reveal the women they most admire, part of a larger effort by POLITICO, Google and The Tory Burch Foundation exploring how women are leading change in politics, policy and their communities. Read more »

President Obama earlier today invited the entire House GOP conference to the White House for a meeting tomorrow, according to House Speaker John Boehner’s (R-Ohio) office. House GOP leaders have opted to send a much smaller contingent. Read more »

The White House had invited the full Republican caucus to participate in a meeting with the president, but the Speaker opted to send a smaller delegation, including leadership members and committee chairmen, a Boehner aide said earlier Wednesday. Read more »

President Barack Obama will meet with a delegation of 18 Republicans at the White House Thursday, in what will be the most significant meeting between the two parties in the ongoing debates on funding the government and raising the nation's debt ceiling. Read more »