Congress: Republicans

Republicans: The huge election-year legislation preserves the downward trajectory on government spending demanded by Republicans. Yet the bipartisan measure steaming through Congress also preserves President Barack Obamas health care overhaul and stricter regulation of financial markets and deflects the most significant attempts by Republicans to rewrite environmental rules and force other changes, according to 660 News. The average American looking at this, it looks pretty dysfunctional for the last couple of years, said Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla. We need to rack up some achievements here not just for Republicans but for incumbents in general and for the institution and WASHINGTON A chastened Congress is putting aside the crisis-driven budget battles of the past three years, embracing a $1.1 trillion spending bill that restores or smooths the sharpest edges of the automatic cuts imposed as a result of its own dysfunction. Lawmakers hope the compromise will show disgruntled voters before next falls midterm election that Washington especially its unpopular Congress can perform its most basic function of responsibly funding the government. The bravado that prompted tea party Republicans to force a government shutdown in hopes of derailing Obamacare is long gone, replaced by an election-year desire to focus attention on the administrations troubled rollout of the health care law instead of lurching from crisis to crisis. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.