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Republicans block Obama nominee to appeals court
Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked the confirmation of federal appeals court nominee Caitlin Halligan for the second time, denying President ...
Obama to meet with GOP senators on Capitol Hill
President Barack Obama will meet with Senate Republicans on Capitol Hill next week. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's office says the president ...
Military leaders welcome House GOP budget bill
A massive House Republican measure to keep the government operating would ease some of the pain of automatic spending cuts slamming the Defense ...
Column: Our complex politics' short-hand problem
From an early age, Americans are conditioned to see the world in sharp lines — black-and-white labels in a society where the reality is many shades ...
Spending cuts seem here to stay
The spending cuts are here to stay if you believe the public posturing Sunday. The Senate's Republican leader Mitch McConnell called them modest.
McConnell takes on group for criticizing wife
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell lambasted a liberal group on Saturday for criticizing the Asian heritage of his wife, former Labor Secretary ...
Boehner after Obama meeting: No new taxes
House Speaker John Boehner, emerging Friday from a White House meeting with President Barack Obama and congressional leaders, declared that higher ...
Gridlock: No budging at the budget-cuts deadline
Gridlocked once more, President Barack Obama and Republican congressional leaders refused to budge in their budget standoff Friday as $85 billion in ...
Beam me up, Yoda: Obama flubs 'Star Trek' term
He's not a dictator and won't entertain the idea of a "Jedi mind-meld" with opponents. There's no "secret formula or special sauce" he can slip foes ...
Republican losses obscure US drift to right
Republican angst over presidential election losses obscures the fact that many conservative ideals have prospered for decades. Conservative efforts ...
Senate Dems' bill light on deficit cuts in 2013
White House-backed legislation in the Senate to replace $85 billion in across-the-board spending cuts would raise the deficit through the end of the ...
Obama rejects plan for more say in spending cuts
President Barack Obama brushed off a Republican plan Tuesday to give him flexibility to allocate $85 billion in looming spending cuts, wanting no part ...
All condemn pending budget cuts, spread blame
The White House and Republicans kept up the unrelenting mudslinging Sunday over who's to blame for roundly condemned budget cuts set to take effect ...
Obama: Hill must make 'right decisions' on cuts
President Barack Obama, intensifying pressure on congressional Republicans, said Friday that lawmakers still have "the opportunity to make the right ...
THE RESET: White House catalogs spending-cut woes
As the nation slowly recovers from the severe 2007-2009 recession, a battle rages between lawmakers who want the government to aggressively tackle ...
GOP senators are treading carefully with tea party
Twice burned, Republicans are treading carefully around tea party groups as they pursue a Senate majority that slipped through their fingers in 2010 ...
Obama calls Boehner, McConnell as budget cuts loom
Signaling an attempt to break an impasse, President Barack Obama on Thursday placed calls to House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Republican leader ...
Consequences of failure laid out in budget fight
A new plan by Senate Democrats to head off severe spending cuts in two weeks met an icy reception from Republicans on Thursday as administration ...
Democrats to unveil bill to replace budget cuts
President Barack Obama's Democratic allies in the Senate are unveiling legislation Thursday to avoid a looming set of sharp, across-the-board spending ...
Obama to revive populist message in Tuesday speech
Reviving his populist re-election message, President Barack Obama will press a politically-divided Congress to approve more tax increases and fewer ...
Senate panel to vote Tuesday on Hagel nomination
Senate Democrats are pushing ahead with a vote Tuesday on Chuck Hagel's nomination to be defense secretary, rejecting Republican demands for more ...
Senate Democrats craft bill to avert budget cuts
Top Senate Democrats have prepared a plan to slice the Pentagon's budget by $3 billion a year in an attempt to avoid far steeper cuts that defense ...
Senate Dem: GOP request to Hagel extraordinary
The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee said Friday he will press ahead with a vote on Chuck Hagel's nomination to be defense secretary, ...
Rubio to deliver State of Union GOP response
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio will give the Republican rebuttal to President Barack Obama's State of the Union address on Tuesday, providing a direct ...
Senate panel postpones vote on Hagel nomination
A Senate panel on Wednesday abruptly postponed a vote on Chuck Hagel's nomination to be defense secretary amid Republican demands for more information ...