by Carl P. Leubsdorf In announcing their compromise agreement to extend the debt ceiling and avert a potential economic catastrophe, both President Joe Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy claimed victory. But Biden’s triumph is likely to prove more significant because the deal ...
MORGANTOWN – Sen. Shelley Moore Capito told West Virginia reporters on Thursday that she believes the debt ceiling bill would pass the Senate. And work on the Mountain Valley Pipeline could begin by July 1. “We are not going to default on our national debt,” she said. The Fiscal ...
MORGANTOWN – The U.S. House of Representatives passed the debt ceiling bill Wednesday evening and sent it across the Capitol to the Senate. The Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 suspends the debt ceiling for two years, imposes some spending limits and enables completion of the Mountain ...
MORGANTOWN – Sens. Joe Manchin and Shelley Moore Capito are pleased that the MVP pipleline has been included in the debt ceiling deal expected to pass both houses of Congress this week. “I applaud both sides,” Manchin said during a Tuesday press conference with West Virginia ...
Decision for new trash bins a garbage plan Let’s talk trash. Or, more specifically, trash bins. We recently had delivered to our driveway a huge Republic trash bin with instructions to place it four feet from parked cars, fire hydrants or recycling bins. By my ...
by Jackie Calmes Whether you’re for the demand by House Republicans for deep spending cuts as a condition for raising the nation’s debt ceiling or you’re against it, there are some things you should know in assessing their gambit. Perhaps the single most important fact ...