Partisans quibble over right stocks bill
Even though the Senate reached a bipartisan deal Thursday about an ethics bill regulating the personal financial activities of lawmakers, that didn't stop House leaders from arguing over how to proceed...
View ArticleObama orders new sanctions against Iran
President Obama signed an executive order Monday morning freezing all U.S.-held assets of the Iranian government, including its Central Bank, even as he continued to try to ease fears that Israel is...
View ArticleEstranged bedfellows: Liberals, conservatives also split on sex, romance
If you've ever wondered whether America's near-tribal political polarization extends to romance — whether an Ann Coulter-Keith Olbermann wedding would, in fact, be weirder than a Herman Cain campaign...
View ArticleObama frets over super PAC spending
President Obama predicted an onslaught of negative campaigning by "super PACs" during the general election, although he did not disavow his own fundraising machine or the outside groups backing him for...
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PALPABLE DECENCY Is another surprise surge for Rick Santorum percolating at the polls? Voters like him personally, and they admire his tenacity and decorum on the campaign trail. "Again, why not...
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SENATE Top lawmakers question Pentagon move on jet The leaders of the Senate Armed Services Committee are suggesting that Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta rushed a decision to develop the Marine Corps...
View ArticleCongress approves long-term FAA funding bill
After more than four years of delays and almost two-dozen stopgap extensions, Congress on Monday approved a long-term Federal Aviation Administration funding bill that will lead to major upgrades of...
View ArticleJudge nixes Texas remapping plan after latest deal
SAN ANTONIO — A federal judge swiftly rejected a proposed temporary fix to Texas' months-long fight over redistricting on Monday, ordering all sides to keep talking just hours after a compromise was...
View ArticleBusiness group states case against health care mandate
President Obama can't expand health care coverage and then mandate every American purchase coverage to subsidize the added costs, a group suing to block Mr. Obama's health care law said Monday as it...
View ArticleSantorum pursues surge in Colorado, Minnesota
DENVER — The Republican presidential race could be headed for another reshuffle Tuesday as Rick Santorum, who has lagged behind since his surprise Iowa victory, is once again challenging the dominance...
View ArticleSettlement nears on making banks reduce loans
California and New York, the key holdouts in a long-awaited settlement over foreclosure abuses, moved closer Monday to backing a deal that would force the five largest mortgage lenders to reduce loans...
View ArticleKaptur, Kucinich face off in Ohio
They have served a combined 46 years in the House of Representatives, ethnic Catholic liberals born four months apart representing districts along their state's northern border. But now, redistricting...
View ArticleGingrich shunned lobbying but hired lobbyists
Newt Gingrich says his consulting group never lobbied for clients. But his business hired state and federal lobbyists to work with clients, and some staff left to take lobbying jobs, according to...
View ArticleObama to seek more Alzheimer's research money
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration wants to spend just over half a billion dollars on Alzheimer's research next year, hoping to battle back against what could become the defining disease of the...
View ArticleAxelrod defends Obama administration birth control rule
WASHINGTON — A political adviser to President Barack Obama said Tuesday the administration didn't intend to "abridge anyone's religious freedom" with its regulation requiring church-affiliated...
View ArticleClint Eastwood: 'I am certainly not affiliated with Obama'
Clint Eastwood is setting the record straight on the Chrysler Super Bowl ad and claims in the liberal blogosphere and elsewhere that it was an implicit endorsement of President Obama and his decision...
View ArticleHouse GOP introduces its insider trading bill
WASHINGTON — House Republicans have introduced their version of a bill to ban insider trading by thousands of federal officials, and have added provisions to bar lawmakers convicted of a felony from...
View ArticleU.S. searches for strategy to halt Syria violence
WASHINGTON — The United States appears to be out of answers on what to do with Syria. The Obama administration says it is not considering invading Syria or arming its rebels to remove President Bashar...
View ArticleObama edges ahead of Romney in Va. in new poll
President Obama has moved ahead of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in Virginia for the first time in Quinnipiac University's polling, according to a survey released Wednesday. Mr. Obama...
View ArticleCongress tries to give Obama line-item veto
WASHINGTON — The Republican-led House is trying Wednesday to give President Barack Obama the line-item veto, a constitutionally questionable power over the purse that has been sought by both Republican...
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