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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has won a showdown vote in the GOP-controlled House to kill a costly alternative engine for the Pentagon’s next-generation fighter jet. (more)

House Democrats made their case for continuing taxpayer funding of public media outlets such as NPR and PBS with a little help from Arthur the PBS cartoon character, who visited the Capitol Wednesday morning. (more)

Maryland Rep. Steny Hoyer, the second-ranking House Democrat, said Wednesday that if the parties cannot find a compromise on how to fund the government by the March 4 deadline that a government shutdown would be “possible.” (more)

Congressional staffers are bracing themselves for a marathon workweek, as the House debates a plan to fund the government through the next fiscal year. Republican leadership is using an “open rule” process that allows any of the 433 House members to submit, within certain boundaries, as many amendments as they want. (more)

Facing an outcry from the party’s conservative caucus over allegedly backtracking on spending cuts, House Speaker John Boehner announced Thursday that when the House releases its budget proposal next week, the cuts Republicans propose will add up to even more than what they promised last year. (more)

For the second time in as many days, the House has rejected a measure brought to the floor, a sign that the new Republican leadership is still learning the ropes when it comes to counting — and keeping — vote counts on the floor. (more)

Members of the House have been given the all-clear for spending their allowance on beefing up security in their home district offices. House Administration Committee Chairman Dan Lungren (R-Calif.) told his colleagues in a letter that they need no prior approval for expenditures up to $10,000. (more)

After nary a peep from House Republicans while the Senate blocked hundreds of Democratic proposals during the past few years, Republicans are now expressing frustration with the upper chamber for letting their bills die too. (more)

BALTIMORE — House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy voiced support for a Democrat-led proposal to integrate party members at this year’s State of the Union Address in response to the shooting in Arizona that left House colleague Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords severely injured. (more)

An aide to Rep. Dan Burton (R-Ind.) tells CBS News that the Indiana Republican plans to introduce legislation next week that would encase the House Gallery in “a transparent and substantial material” such as Plexiglas that would keep members of the public from being able to throw explosives or make other attacks on members on the House floor. (more)

Rep. Peter King, a Republican from New York, is planning to introduce legislation that would make it illegal to bring a gun within 1,000 feet of a government official, according to a person familiar with the congressman’s intentions. (more)

Next week, the House of Representatives will vote on H.R. 2, a measure to repeal Obamacare in its entirety. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) today released a report stating that repealing the health care law would increase the deficit by $145 billion between 2012 and 2019. (more)

A member of the public who doesn’t believe President Barack Obama was born in the United States and therefore eligible to be president briefly interrupted the reading of the Constitution by House members Thursday. (more)

WASHINGTON — The incoming Republican majority in the House is moving to make good on its promise to cut $100 billion from domestic spending this year, a goal eagerly backed by conservatives but one carrying substantial political and economic risks. (more)

The House late Thursday gave final approval, 277-148, to a temporary extension of the George W. Bush-era tax rates, delivering a significant but politically bruising victory to President Obama. (more)

1.) Romney joins growing chorus of anti-something-something conservatives — The number of conservatives who are opposed to the tax cut deal is growing. On Monday, Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney joined radio host Hugh Hewitt, the Washington Post’s Charles Krauthammer, and Senators Tom Coburn and Jim DeMint in opposing the bill on the grounds that “the temporary nature of the taxrate extension would limit the positive economic impact and correspondingly make the deficit worse,” writes The Daily Caller’s Jon Ward. Romney, like the others mentioned above, has also raised red flags about unfunded spending contained in the bill. Coincidentally, you could say the same thing about Romneycare. (more)

House lawmakers on Wednesday passed legislation allowing illegal immigrant students to remain permanently and legally in the United States. (more)

Rep. Maxine Waters plans to bring a privileged resolution to the floor that calls for an independent investigation of the House ethics committee. (more)

Washington (CNN) – The college football bowl season is weeks away from crowning a new national champion, but there will be no congratulatory votes for the winner on the House floor. That’s because Republicans are planning to ban most official Congressional commemorations when they take over the chamber in January. (more)

South Carolina Rep.-elect Tim Scott, the first black Republican from the South since Reconstruction, said Wednesday that he will not join the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC). (more)