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"If the Senate Democrats choose to filibuster [a short-term spending bill], then they will have chosen to shut down the government down," said House Speaker Paul D. Ryan. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Democrats want immigration fix in spending bill

Bumping up against another shutdown deadline, Congress will have to pass a short-term spending bill next week and push big decisions into next year, lawmakers said Thursday — though Democrats said they may still force a shutdown fight over new rights for illegal immigrants.

November 30, 2017
House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., speaks during a meeting with President Donald Trump in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2017, along with Republican congressional leaders. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) ** FILE **

Paul Ryan says Dems blew DACA negotiations by skipping Trump meeting

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan said Thursday that Democrats squandered their ability to demand a so-called "DACA fix" as part of the year-end spending bill when their leaders refused to show up for a meeting with President Trump this week to conduct negotiations.

November 30, 2017
In this file photo from Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2017, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., right, and other top House Democrats, speak at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Pelosi said Thursday, Nov. 30, 2017, that Conyers should resign, saying the accusations are "very credible." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, file)

Nancy Pelosi tells John Conyers to resign

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi turned against Rep. John Conyers Jr. on Thursday and told him to quit Congress immediately, as sexual harassment allegations continued to build against the chamber's longest-serving member.

November 30, 2017
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., center, standing with Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., left, and Rep. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., right, speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Mr. Nunes wants to know if the FBI knew the dossier was funded by the Democratic Party in the summer and fall of 2016, when the bureau opened a Trump-Russia counterintelligence probe. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Bill would reauthorize FISA Section 702 for 4 years

The House intelligence committee announced a bill Wednesday to renew the government's chief foreign intelligence snooping program with some moderate changes, cutting a middle ground between civil liberties advocates who want major changes and surveillance hawks who say it's fine as-is.

November 29, 2017
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi defended Rep. John Conyers Jr. but on Wednesday put some serious distance between herself and the congressman. (Associated Press/File)

House passes rule requiring anti-harassment training for Congress

The House voted Wednesday to force its members and employees to take anti-harassment training, but all sides said there must be more bloodletting -- including full disclosure of the secret ways lawmakers have used taxpayer money to hush up complaints of bad behavior.

November 29, 2017
Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., looks to Don Willett, center, and James Ho, left, during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on nominations on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2017. Willett and Ho have been nominated to be United States Circuit Judges For The Fifth Circuit. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Trump’s judge picks spur internal battle within GOP

Conservative activists mounted a full-scale assault Wednesday on Sen. John Kennedy, a Louisiana Republican, after he expressed concerns over some of President Trump's judicial nominees and hinted he might not be able to vote for one of them.

November 29, 2017