Senate confirms Hagel for defense secretary
A deeply divided Senate voted on Tuesday to confirm Republican Chuck Hagel to be the nation's next defense secretary, handing President Barack Obama's ...
Cruz's tactics boil Washington, but impress Texas
Ted Cruz glanced at his black cowboy boots, beneath a silver Texas belt buckle, waiting for the admirers to stop clapping. His arrival had turned a ...
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 ...
Hagel delay gives opposition time to hone attack
The weeklong Senate recess gives outside interest groups opposed to Chuck Hagel's nomination to become defense secretary more time to sharpen their ...
Senate Dems, GOP clash over need for new gun curbs
The toll of gun violence and the widespread disgust it has generated makes it time for new federal gun curbs that balance public safety with gun ...
Senate panel approves Hagel for Pentagon chief
A bitterly divided Senate panel on Tuesday approved President Barack Obama's nomination of Chuck Hagel to be the nation's defense secretary in a ...
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 ...
Vets groups' praise for Hagel adds pressure on GOP
Countering the Republican-led opposition to President Barack Obama's nominee for defense secretary is a less flashy but powerful constituency: ...
Giffords pleads for gun curbs; NRA fights back
Severely wounded and still recovering, former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords begged lawmakers at an emotional hearing Wednesday to act quickly to curb ...
Senate confirms Kerry nomination for State Dept.
The Senate overwhelmingly confirmed President Barack Obama's choice of five-term Sen. John Kerry to be secretary of state, with Republicans and ...
Immigration overhaul? GOP, Dem senators vow action
Side by side, leading Democratic and Republican senators pledged Monday to propel far-reaching immigration legislation through the Senate by summer ...
Ryan says GOP needs to pick its fights with Obama
Rep. Paul Ryan has a message for fellow Republicans: Let's stick together and carefully pick our fights with President Barack Obama. In a speech ...
GOP wants budget; Schumer warns they will get one
Democrats are looking to make new revenue part of the Senate's first budget in almost four years, which will be released soon after the start of ...
Hagel pick test of Senate on presidential choices
In the middle of a bitter fight over a Republican president's nominee for defense secretary, a former White House occupant pleaded with senators to ...
Ron Paul's GOP legacy growing in states like Iowa
Ron Paul is exiting the political stage, but his legions of followers insist they are only getting started. Libertarian-leaning loyalists of the ...
Senate GOP leader optimistic about Afghanistan
The United States should keep a residual force of about 10,000 in Afghanistan after combat forces leave at the end of 2014, the Senate Republican ...
Face of the new Congress
Politically, the 113th Congress that was sworn in Thursday won't be much of a change from the less-than-stellar 112th Congress it replaces: Democrats ...
Leading conservative DeMint resigning Senate seat
Sen. Jim DeMint, patron saint of the tea party and a would-be Republican kingmaker, announced suddenly Thursday he would resign his South Carolina ...
GOP divide surfaces early in 2014 Senate contest
That didn't take long. The fissures within the Republican Party that some say cost the GOP control of the Senate have resurfaced just three weeks ...
New Congress: Fewer moderates make deals harder
When the next Congress cranks up in January, there will be more women, many new faces and 11 fewer tea party-backed House Republicans from the class ...
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