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Key House chairman slams Senate immigration bill
A key House committee chairman on Wednesday sharply criticized a wide-ranging immigration bill just passed by a Senate committee, underscoring the difficulties ahead as the politically volatile measure moves forward in a divided Congress. Separately, a bipartisan House group that has been working behind the scenes to craft its own ...
Key senator to let Myanmar sanctions bill lapse
Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell, easing up on his long-held tough stance on Myanmar, said Tuesday he planned to allow key sanctions legislation against the Southeast Asian nation to lapse because of the country's progress toward democracy. McConnell, R-Ky., made the announcement after meeting with Myanmar President Thein Sein, who ...
After a decade, global AIDS program looks ahead
The decade-old law that transformed the battle against HIV and AIDS in developing countries is at a crossroads. The dream of future generations freed from the epidemic is running up against an era of economic recovery and harsh budget cuts. The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief grew out of ...
Obama agenda marches on despite controversies
Despite Democratic fears, predictions of the demise of President Barack Obama's agenda appear exaggerated after a week of cascading controversies, political triage by the administration and party leaders in Congress and lack of evidence to date of wrongdoing close to the Oval Office. "Absolutely not," Steven Miller, the recently resigned ...
Another round for the House on 'Obamacare'
One more time, with feeling! The Republican-led House voted yet again Thursday to repeal President Barack Obama's health care law, knowing full well that won't stop it. Only months away from the rollout of coverage for uninsured Americans, it was the 37th attempt in a little more than two years ...
Obama calls on Congress to fund embassy security
President Barack Obama on Thursday tried to turn the tables on Republicans who have criticized his administration's response to last year's deadly attack in Benghazi, Libya, calling on lawmakers to approve his request to increase funding for diplomatic security. Obama's call was the second step in as many days designed ...
Raising cash for Dems, Obama bemoans partisan jams
Huddling with A-list celebrities and top re-election donors, President Barack Obama bemoaned the partisan forces that have stymied compromise in Washington as he raised campaign cash for Democrats in New York. At a cozy suppertime fundraiser Monday, Obama said he had hoped his election in 2008 might "break the fever" ...
House Dems, Obama hash out to-do list over dinner
The top Democratic leaders in the House hashed out their to-do list Wednesday at a suppertime powwow with President Barack Obama. At an upscale hotel blocks from the White House, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and her deputies joined Obama for a meal that lasted about 2 1/2 hours. The ...
Mark Sanford renews career, must build reputation
Now that former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford has resurrected a once-promising political career by regaining his old House seat, he'll have to rebuild the reputation that once earned him praise as a possible presidential contender among colleagues. The Republican preached fiscal responsibility during his three terms in Congress in ...
From the Appalachian Trail back to Congress
Once again proving that political obituaries are sometimes written far too early, voters in South Carolina have sent a scandal scarred ex-Governor back to Congress, as Republican Mark Sanford easily won a seat in the U.S. House over Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch. While the polls had indicated an edge for ...
Pelosi, top House Dems to dine with Obama
The White House says President Barack Obama has invited House Democratic leaders to dinner Wednesday at a hotel near the White House. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California will attend the private dinner, along with the No. 2 and No. 3 Democrats in the House, congressmen Steny Hoyer of ...
CNN's Kurtz apologizes for errors in Collins story
Media critic Howard Kurtz used his CNN show on Sunday to point a finger at himself, apologizing for a story on gay basketball player Jason Collins that he said was riddled with errors and shouldn't have been written in the first place. The extraordinary edition of CNN's "Reliable Sources" contained ...
Ex-Gov. Sanford seeks 2nd chance in South Carolina
One congressional candidate is a former Republican governor seeking redemption after his career imploded in a public saga involving lies, the Appalachian Trail and an Argentine mistress. His Democratic opponent is a famous comedian's sister who's trying to benefit from her rival's damaged reputation. In a bizarre campaign that has ...
South Carolina center stage in early 2016 talk
Mere months after the 2012 election, South Carolina is a buzz of political activity with a slate of potential presidential candidates already looking ahead to the state's "first in the South" primary — still three years away. Vice President Joe Biden, a Democrat, and Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, ...
Kurtz leaves DailyBeast after retracted blog post
Columnist Howard Kurtz has left online news and commentary site The Daily Beast, a day after the website retracted one of his blog posts about the coming out of NBA player Jason Collins. Both Kurtz and Daily Beast editor-in-chief Tina Brown confirmed his departure over Twitter. Kurtz did not acknowledge ...
With 1 week to go, Sanford subject of attacks
Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford can't seem to escape attacks on the extramarital affair that derailed his political career, which he hopes to revive in the special congressional election that is now a week away. For months, his Democratic opponent, Elizabeth Colbert Busch, refused to criticize Sanford's affair — ...
Sanford, Colbert Busch trade jabs in SC debate
Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, trying to revive his political career, and Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch traded verbal jabs on his past indiscretions and her liberal political supporters during a spirited debate Monday night — their only scheduled meeting in the race for the state's vacant 1st Congressional District ...
Controllers to return; flight delays sway Congress
Furloughed air traffic controllers will soon be heading back to work, ending a week of coast-to-coast flight delays that left thousands of travelers frustrated and furious. Unable to ignore the travelers' anger, Congress overwhelmingly approved legislation Friday to allow the Federal Aviation Administration to withdraw the furloughs. But the vote ...
Here come the automatic cuts
Seventeen months after approving a debt limit deal which included across the board budget cuts as a last resort for deficit control, Congress adjourned for the weekend without taking any action on the sequester, as $85 billion in budget cuts will start going into effect on Friday night. "Americans know ...
Democrats move on automatic budget cuts
After months of finger pointing over who is to blame for billions of dollars in automatic budget cuts, Democrats in the House and Senate rolled out plans to avert cuts scheduled to hit on March 1, as House Republicans said they would not act on any budget measure until the ...
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