New York Senator Charles E. Schumer announced Tuesday that he is recommending a gay man for the federal bench New York Senator Charles ...
Obama, state regulator criticize Anthem Blue Cross plans to hike rates in California In his push to move stalled health care reform, President ...
Senate Democrats pitch jobs package with tax cuts for businesses making new hires Senate Democrats circulated a jobs bill Tuesday that's light on new initiatives on boosting hiring and heavy with provisions sought by lobbyists for business groups, doctors and the satellite ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama found common ground with Republicans on Tuesday over his top priorities of job creation and deficit reduction but drew a rebuke on healthcare reform. A Democrat, Obama has been promoting a retooled strategy since an election ...
House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio, left, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., right, speak to members of the media outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010, after a meeting between President ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Republicans flexed their new political muscle on Tuesday and blocked President Barack Obama's nomination of a union lawyer to help referee labor disputes. Obama's fellow Democrats in the Senate fell far short of the needed 60 votes, 52-33, ...
GOP blocks Obama labor board nominee after business groups rally opposition Senate Democrats on Tuesday failed to push through President Barack Obama's choice of a union lawyer to serve on the National Labor Relations Board after two of their own joined Republicans ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior U.S. official on Tuesday criticized China and other leading developing countries for trying to weaken the Copenhagen Accord to fight global warming and raised the prospect that a fuller international pact may be not be struck by ...
Partisanship is reaching new heights in Washington, even as President Barack Obama makes almost daily pleas to get along. He's scheduled a bipartisan health care summit, and just Tuesday he hosted GOP leaders at the White House for the first time in ...
Appealing for bipartisanship in a town where it's hard to find, President Barack Obama sat down with Democrats and Republicans Tuesday to spur cooperation on job creation, deficit reduction and health care overhaul. He promised to do his part — but warned ...
Standing at White House podium, Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs mocks Palin's hand notes Even the White House's top spokesman is getting in on the act of mocking former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin for looking to talking points written on her ...
State Senate passes resolution opposing terror trial being held in New York City The New York Senate has passed a resolution opposing trials of terrorists being held in New York City. The resolution passed Tuesday urges President Barack Obama and Attorney General ...
