PRUDEN: Taking aim at the easy target — guns
ANALYSIS/OPINION:"What we must have is a national debate about guns." So goes the media cliche of the moment. Everybody on the left is saying it, but nobody there means a word of it. All these wayward...
View ArticleSenate approves $60.4 billion Sandy aid bill
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Friday approved a $60.4 billion emergency spending aid package for victims of Hurricane Sandy that had been backed by Senate Democrats.Democrats had to turn back...
View ArticleFormer President George H.W. Bush moved out of intensive care
HOUSTON (AP) — Former President George H.W. Bush's condition continued to improve Saturday, prompting doctors to move him out of intensive care, a spokesman said."President Bush's condition has...
View ArticleBudget struggle raising anxiety for health care
WASHINGTON (AP) — Confused about the federal budget struggle? So are doctors, hospital administrators and other medical professionals who serve the 100 million Americans covered by Medicare and...
View ArticleSides trade blame on 'fiscal cliff' as talks proceed
The two Senate leaders were trying Saturday to hash out a tax-and-spending deal to avert this "fiscal cliff," even as both sides took to the airwaves to try to assure voters they want to get something...
View ArticleGOP backs off Social Security income change
Republicans on Sunday conceded on their demand that any "fiscal cliff" deal trim Social Security cost-of-living increases, signaling the end — for now — of their push to reform entitlements in exchange...
View ArticleCongressional leaders find agreement on farm bill
The top leaders in both parties on the House and Senate Agriculture committees have agreed to a one-year extension of the 2008 farm bill that expired in October, a move that would head off a possible...
View ArticleHillary Rodham Clinton hospitalized with blood clot
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was admitted to a New York hospital Sunday after the discovery of a blood clot stemming from the concussion she sustained earlier this month.Clinton's doctors...
View ArticleInside Politics: Obama downplays comparison he has made with Lincoln
Faced with an inability to reach a deal with congressional Republicans on the "fiscal cliff," President Obama is downplaying his own comparisons of himself to Abraham Lincoln, a president often...
View ArticleObama signs act allowing spying on terrorists
President Obama has agreed to renew a controversial spy measure over objections from critics — including many in his own party — who say it seriously threatens Americans' privacy and constitutional...
View ArticleObama wants ban on assault weapons
The national debate over gun control may have been pushed to the back burner in favor of the "fiscal cliff" battle, but President Obama remains committed to confronting the issue no matter the...
View ArticleWatch Night tradition reaches 150th year
As New Year's Day approached 150 years ago, all eyes were on President Lincoln in expectation of what he warned 100 days earlier would be coming — his final proclamation declaring all slaves in states...
View ArticleIllinois pensions reaching critical mass
CHICAGO — Illinois, a state with a reputation for political wheeling and dealing, backroom handshakes and 11th-hour bargains, is dragging its feet on the one deal needed to solve its biggest crisis in...
View ArticleUSDA agency’s largesse grows crop insurance
Most Americans have never heard of the Risk Management Agency, but the obscure Agriculture Department office spreads good cheer and millions of dollars in grants each year to industry trade groups and...
View ArticleSandy-hit agencies get no free ride for new cars
The Senate passed a massive Superstorm Sandy relief bill late last week but not before lawmakers took a stab at some accountability — including insisting that the FBI, Secret Service and other law...
View ArticleZOGBY: President Obama's weekly report card (Dec. 24-30)
Pollster John Zogby grades the president's week and how its events affect him and his agenda.Grade: C- (because he won)"When is a victory not really a victory? As of this writing, it looks like there...
View ArticleOffers fly, but still no 'fiscal cliff' agreement
With hours to go, President Obama and Congress barreled toward the New Year's Day "fiscal cliff," trading last-minute offers and narrowing the range of options Sunday, but reaching no deal."There's...
View ArticleObama takes to airwaves to blame Republicans for impasse over 'fiscal cliff'
President Obama used a rare appearance on a Sunday talk show to accuse Republican lawmakers of protecting only the wealthiest taxpayers in negotiations to avoid the "fiscal cliff," even as some in the...
View ArticleObama says immigration reform will be priority
President Obama says immigration is his major second-term priority, on par with his push for health care in his first term, according to an interview aired Sunday that continues to boost the issue to...
View ArticleBarrasso: 'Monumental failure of presidential leadership'
Sen. John Barrasso said Sunday that President Obama is "outsourcing" negotiations to avert the "fiscal cliff" — the automatic spending cuts and tax increases that will take effect in 2013 unless...
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