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WASHINGTON – Enraged over Congress' failure to approve disaster relief for victims of Superstorm Sandy, Gov. Chris Christie of New...
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration eased the way Wednesday for illegal immigrants who are...
WASHINGTON -- Even as he claimed victory and praised leaders for walking back from the edge of economic danger, President Obama looked...
WASHINGTON — The House gave final approval Tuesday night to a bill to rescind tax increases for the vast majority of Americans, but...
WASHINGTON – House Republicans, facing a political dilemma without good options, prepared Tuesday to vote on a Senate-passed bill to...
WASHINGTON -- A sharply divided House Republican leadership struggled to reach agreement on a measure to avoid part of the so-called “...
WASHINGTON -- Vice President Joe Biden will return to Capitol Hill to meet with House Democrats to talk over the votes expected later...
WASHINGTON – The White House said a deal had been reached to avert the “fiscal cliff” and dispatched Vice President Joe...
WASHINGTON – The blood clot that led to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s hospitalization on Sunday is lodged in a...
WASHINGTON – Details of the emerging “fiscal cliff” deal ricocheted through the...
WASHINGTON – As negotiators closed in on a tax-and-spending deal to avert the “fiscal cliff,&...
WASHINGTON – The fatal attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11 was the culmination of a series of oversights...
WASHINGTON – A deal was emerging Monday that would raise taxes on incomes, including investments, for taxpayers making more than $450,...
WASHINGTON – Senate leaders remain shy of a deal to avert the automatic tax increases due to take effect at midnight on New Year&...
WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was hospitalized in New York on Sunday after doctors discovered a blood clot...
WASHINGTON -- Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill moved closer to a compromise to avert part of the so-called fiscal cliff,...
WASHINGTON -- Senate Republicans backed off a demand to trim spending on Social Security by changing the cost-of-living adjustment, a...
WASHINGTON — Talks over preventing the New Year’s tax hike on all but the wealthiest Americans hit a major setback Sunday when...
WASHINGTON -- House Speaker John A. Boehner called it “ironic” that President Obama blamed...
WASHINGTON — One measure of the state of affairs in the Capitol is the chaplain’s opening prayer in Congress. On Sunday, it...
WASHINGTON — President Obama said he has made no decision on a new...
If Washington’s effort to reach a deal on the "fiscal cliff" looks daunting, just wait for the debate over what to do about mass...
WASHINGTON -- President Obama blamed Republican leaders for the latest round of brinkmanship in Washington...
WASHINGTON – President Obama used his weekly address on Saturday to put pressure on the Senate’s leaders as they work to craft a...
WASHINGTON – President Obama said he was “modestly optimistic” that Senate leaders could reach an agreement to avoid the...
WASHINGTON – Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Republican leader Mitch McConnell said in Senate floor statements Friday evening...
WASHINGTON — President Obama has invited congressional leaders to the White House to try to salvage negotiations to avoid the “...
WASHINGTON -- House members are being called back to the capital by Sunday evening in a move that could be more symbolism than substance, as...
WASHINGTON – Brian Schatz knew this much about Washington before departing Hawaii on Wednesday to start his new role as a U.S. senator...
WASHINGTON — Lisa P. Jackson, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency during...
WASHINGTON -- President Obama and lawmakers returned to Washington on Thursday to try to jump-start the...
KANEOHE, Hawaii — Gov. Neil Abercrombie has appointed Lt. Gov. Brian Schatz to replace Daniel K. Inouye in the U.S. Senate, opting...
Despite often-voiced concerns about the effect of voter identification laws, black voter turnout remained high in 2012 and, for the first...
WASHINGTON -- Americans are increasingly doubtful that Congress and the White House will reach a budget...
HONOLULU – President Obama will leave for Washington on Wednesday evening to restart talks on averting the "fiscal cliff," the White...
HONOLULU – Before Daniel K. Inouye shipped off to Europe with members of his 442nd Regimental Combat Team, his unit traveled by...
KANEOHE, Hawaii -- President Obama began the holiday weekend as far removed as one could be from the stalled "fiscal cliff" talks in...
WASHINGTON -- In the aftermath of House Speaker John A. Boehner’s defeat on his “Plan B” tax plan, President Obama offered...
WASHINGTON -- Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell blamed Democrats for forcing House leaders to pull a vote on the Plan B proposal to...
WASHINGTON — The National Rifle Assn.’s proposal Friday to finance a National Model School Shield Program in which armed...
WASHINGTON -- Washington officials marked the close of a somber week on Friday by observing a moment of silence for the victims of the...
WASHINGTON -- In an angry and defiant news conference, National Rifle Assn. Chief Executive Wayne LaPierre on Friday forcefully rejected...
WASHINGTON -- Dimming the prospects for further cooperation on the budget crisis, Republican House Speaker John A. Boehner on Friday tried...
WASHINGTON – President Obama nominated John F. Kerry, the five-term senator from Massachusetts, to replace Hillary Rodham Clinton as...
WASHINGTON -- President Obama stepped up his public commitment to specific gun control measures Friday by asking a like-minded audience to...
WASHINGTON — House Speaker John A. Boehner abruptly called off a vote on his “Plan B” tax proposal late Thursday, a...
WASHINGTON -- House Republican leaders abruptly called off a vote Thursday night on their "Plan B” tax proposal to avoid...
WASHINGTON -- House Speaker John A. Boehner rejected calls from Democrats to schedule a vote on new gun...
WASHINGTON -- The White House is again coming to the defense of a possible Cabinet nominee, even before President Obama makes up his mind on...
Although public support for “gun control” as a general concept remains well below the levels found in the 1990s, several polls...
WASHINGTON – As the House prepared to vote Thursday on Speaker John A. Boehner’s tax plan, party leaders blamed each other for...
After months of speculation about whether he’d challenge popular New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie for the state’s top job in 2013,...
WASHINGTON — Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s hopes of taking over the panel that will be crucial to her efforts to renew an assault...
The State Department slammed former United Nations envoy John Bolton over his suggestion that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton...
WASHINGTON — House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco), joined by members of her caucus personally touched by gun...
WASHINGTON – Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee debated the necessity of voter ID laws and early-voting restrictions Wednesday,...
WASHINGTON – The lines of communication seem less open.
Two of the weapons involved in a drug cartel gunfight last month in Sinaloa, Mexico, that killed five people, including two soldiers and a...
WASHINGTON – President Obama urged Republican congressional leaders to view recent national...
WASHINGTON -- Grover Norquist, the keeper of anti-tax conservatism, gave his blessing Wednesday to House Speaker John A. Boehner’s...
WASHINGTON -- Announcing his first steps in response to the Newtown, Conn., school massacre, President...
WASHINGTON — Federal funds would be made available to deploy National Guard troops at schools under legislation introduced Wednesday...
Robert H. Bork, whose failed Supreme Court nomination in 1987 infuriated conservatives and politicized the confirmation process for the...
President Obama will give the first glimpse of his policy response to mass shootings in an appearance Wednesday morning in which he'll...
WASHINGTON – Vice President Joe Biden returned to the Senate on Tuesday to swear in Sen. Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont as the new...
President Obama supports an effort already afoot in the U.S. Senate to renew the expired ban on assault weapons, his spokesman said Tuesday.
WASHINGTON -- When Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) launched her drive in 1994 to win approval for an...
WASHINGTON -- House Speaker John A. Boehner’s "Plan B" on the budget talks, bringing to a vote his proposal to extend expiring tax...
WASHINGTON -- House Speaker John A. Boehner has launched "Plan B" in budget talks, announcing Tuesday that he will bring for a vote his...
WASHINGTON — Negotiations to prevent the year-end budget crisis accelerated Monday as President Obama and House Speaker John A....
WASHINGTON – Sen. Daniel Inouye of Hawaii, the second-longest-serving senator in U.S. history and winner of the Medal of Honor for...
WASHINGTON – Gun control advocates who have long struggled to match the political clout of groups such as the National Rifle Assn. say...
WASHINGTON -- Senate Democrats took to the floor Monday to defend a $60.4-billion aid package for victims of Superstorm Sandy against...
WASHINGTON -- The day after President Obama made an emotional and direct vow to use all the power of his...
WASHINGTON -- Rep. Tim Scott, a freshman tea party Republican, will become South Carolina's first black senator, Gov. Nikki Haley, announced...
WASHINGTON - House Speaker John A. Boehner returned to the White House on Monday morning, meeting with...
WASHINGTON — Two days after the shooting deaths of 26 people at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school, Sen. Dianne Feinstein pledged...
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who canceled an overseas trip this week due to a stomach virus, suffered a...
More than five weeks after election day, almost all the presidential votes have been counted. Here’s what the near-final tally...
WASHINGTON -- President Obama used his weekly radio address to offer solace and prayers after the shooting that killed 20 children at a...
WASHINGTON -- Fix the Debt, a coalition of business executives and policymakers advocating for sweeping deficit reduction, will release...
Citing the need to strengthen safeguards to public health, the Obama administration announced the strictest standards in 15 years for soot,...
WASHINGTON – Susan Rice, who came under heavy criticism for her defense of the Obama...
Democrats have an edge in public support in the fiscal cliff negotiations, a trio of polls out this week reveal, with the majority of...
WASHINGTON – House Speaker John A. Boehner broke out the charts Thursday to make his case that...
WASHINGTON -- Republican leaders kicked off Wednesday with a fierce critique of President Obama's handling...
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) took on the role of the Grinch on Tuesday, expressing doubt that a deal on the "fiscal cliff"...
WASHINGTON -- House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) broke the uneasy silence in “fiscal cliff’ negotiations Tuesday, taking...
President Obama criticized Michigan’s Republican leaders during a visit to a Detroit-area auto plant Monday for advancing a new...
WASHINGTON -- The prayers that open Congress each workday often reflect earthly affairs in Washington. On Monday, as "fiscal cliff" talks...
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, faced with finding a replacement following Sen. Jim DeMint’s sudden retirement, said Monday that...
NEW YORK -- The 2012 presidential election is over, Ohio has certified its vote, even Rep. Allen West has conceded. So where’s...
WASHINGTON -- President Obama and his family saw “Gangnam Style” rapper Psy perform at a charity concert Sunday night,...
WASHINGTON -- After days of theatrics and threats from both sides, President Obama met privately with House Speaker John A. Boehner at the...
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