Liked but Not Feared, Boehner Keeps a Job Some Might Ask Why He Wants
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
Although no one rose up to challenge him, 12 Republicans rejected Speaker John A. Boehner’s leadership, a warning of further challenges ahead.
Representative Nancy Pelosi, the minority leader, gathered Democratic women of the House before the opening of the 113th Congress on Thursday in Washington.
The first day of the 113th Congress brought a new diversity to the Capitol, including a record number of women and various firsts for the numbers of Latinos and Asians.
Although no one rose up to challenge him, 12 Republicans rejected Speaker John A. Boehner’s leadership, a warning of further challenges ahead.
Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio was re-elected speaker of the House amid open dissent from conservatives that suggested the last Congress’s turmoil would live on.
The president said he had the power to override a defense measure’s limits on the executive branch’s ability to transfer detainees out of military prisons.
A finding by the Federal Trade Commission that Google had not broken the law by highlighting its own services in search results could strengthen the firm’s already dominant position.
Mr. Obama gets to choose who swears him in as president, and once again he chose Chief Justice John Roberts.
The fiscal package passed this week included a retroactive reinstatement of a dollar-a-gallon credit going back to January 2012, when it lapsed.
The new fiscal deal holds small victories for President Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress that further their policy aims, but Mr. Obama lost some leverage for future battles.
Starting bipartisan talks in the Senate to put pressure on the House may become a more formalized process as President Obama and lawmakers grapple with other fiscal deadlines.
Doctors said Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton would make a full recovery after being treated for several days for a blood clot in a vein in her head.
Even as Republicans vow to leverage the federal borrowing limit in their demands for spending cuts, President Obama, who signed the tax bill Wednesday, says he won’t join in more charged talks on the issue.
Another manufactured deadline with a colorful name is threatening to hamstring the government and undermine the economy. Goodbye, fiscal cliff. Hello, debt ceiling.
Congress’s last-minute deal means Americans will pay higher taxes, but they are happy to have the confusion resolved.
Hollywood, the railroad industry and rum producers benefited from some obscure provisions that survived the deal between the White House and Congress.
The depth of the anger that followed the House’s refusal to take up a package of assistance for Hurricane Sandy victims was extraordinary and exceedingly personal.
A federal judge refused to require the Justice Department to disclose a memorandum providing the legal justification for the killing of a United States citizen in Yemen in 2011.
Gen. John R. Allen has submitted military options to the Pentagon that would keep 6,000 to 20,000 American troops in Afghanistan after the NATO mission ends in 2014.
New rules unveiled will allow many American citizens to avoid long separations from family members who are illegal immigrants as they apply to become legal residents.
Ending a climactic showdown in the final hours of the 112th Congress, the House sent to President Obama legislation to avert big income tax increases on most Americans.
Just a few years ago, the tax deal pushed through Congress on Tuesday would have been a Republican fiscal fantasy. But times have changed.
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Members of the 113th Congress were sworn in on Thursday, marking a day of firsts and records for both chambers.
The National Rifle Association gives members of Congress a grade ranging from A to F.
Compare how much Americans paid in federal, state and local taxes over the past three decades.
“Tonight you voted for action, not politics as usual,” President Obama said after winning the election. “You elected us to focus on your jobs, not ours.”
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