South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford defied calls for his resignation yesterday from GOP leaders, insisting he will remain in office even as his political fortunes dimmed in the wake of his admission that he secretly traveled abroad to meet a ...Read More
Lansing -- The state's Republican lawmakers watching the wrangling over health care in Washington, D.C., have jumped into the fray with their own proposals to keep federal health care reforms from coming to Michigan. Republicans in the House and the Senate ...Read More
Even as the Justice Department's criminal probe into Sen. John Ensign continues to heat up, the Senate Ethics Committee shows no sign of shutting down its own investigation into the fallout from the Nevada Republican's extramarital affair with a onetime ...Read More
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford has closed two chapters of his life, agreeing to pay $74,000 in fines to resolve ethics charges brought against him after last summer's revelation of an extramarital affair, and receiving word that ...Read More
March 18 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama's effort to change the nation's education law undermines the power of local officials to set curriculum and help poorly performing schools, Republican lawmakers said. The administration's blueprint for changing No Child Left Behind, the ...Read More
Even as House Democrats search for the votes to send a health-care reform bill to President Obama, dozens of Republican lawmakers and candidates have signed a pledge to back an effort to repeal the measure, should the GOP take control ...Read More
The Obama administration does not expect to capture Osama Bin Laden alive. Attorney General Eric Holder told a House appropriations subcommittee on Tuesday that the possibility of catching the Al Qaeda leader alive is "infinitesimal." "Based on the intelligence I've reviewed, the ...Read More
Democrats vowed Tuesday to pass a health-care overhaul package in one way or another but ran into vociferous resistance from Republican lawmakers, who blasted a potential maneuver that would allow the House to approve the Senate's version of President Obama's ...Read More
March 6 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama said some provisions in health-care legislation he wants Congress to pass within weeks would begin improving insurance coverage for many in the U.S. before year's end. Soon after passage the measure would give tax ...Read More
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama strongly signaled that Democrats will move forward on a health care overhaul with or without Republicans, preparing his party for a fight whose political outcome will rest with voters in November. Delivering his closing argument at ...Read More
Republicans had been hesitant to accept President Obama's invitation to participate in Thursday's White House health-care summit. Their hesitance turned out to be justified. An equal number of Democratic and Republican lawmakers assembled around a table at Blair House, and each ...Read More
-- Events leading to a court judgment Friday on confiscation of the wealth of billionaire ousted Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, whose political fortunes have closely tracked the country's years of political turbulence: February 2001: Thaksin Shinawatra, a telecommunications tycoon, becomes ...Read More
WASHINGTON -- Though they are plunging into a six-hour, nationally televised health care conference today, neither President Barack Obama nor Republican lawmakers especially wanted to be talking about health care right now. And the fact that they are doing it anyway ...Read More
Reporting from Washington - The healthcare summit that convenes Thursday in Washington has emerged as a high-stakes gambit for President Obama and opposing Republican lawmakers, carrying risks for both sides that could not only alter the outcome of the healthcare ...Read More
State Republican lawmakers recommended deep cuts to education, state government and local aid Tuesday afternoon at a rare joint Senate and House hearing called by Democratic leaders to blunt criticism that they had excluded the minority party from the budget ...Read More
Reporting from Washington - As President Obama seeks to revive his moribund healthcare initiative -- and arrest the precipitous drop in his political fortunes -- he is struggling with the consequences of one of his most important early decisions: Letting ...Read More
Washington - President Barack Obama said Saturday the health care meeting he's holding next week with Democratic and Republican lawmakers will test their ability to solve not just this problem, but other problems, too. Republicans said lawmakers must scrap current proposals ...Read More
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama said Saturday the health care meeting he's holding next week with Democratic and Republican lawmakers will test their ability to solve not just this problem, but other problems, too.
Republicans said lawmakers must scrap current ...Read More
Learn More » Report a bug » Feedback » The Tiger Woods story almost didn't happen, according to National Enquirer executive editor Barry Levine. The world's most famous golfer wasn't even on the Enquirer's radar screen. No accident, no scandal, no ...Read More
WASHINGTON-President Barack Obama on Thursday created a bipartisan commission to confront what he calls the federal deficit's "disturbing" trajectory. The spotlight now turns to Republican lawmakers, who haven't confirmed that they're willing to participate. In remarks at the White House, Obama outlined ...Read More
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama hailed Wednesday's one-year-old economic stimulus law as an accomplishment that staved off another Great Depression and kept up to 2 million people on the job. Still, with millions still out of work and losing patience, Obama ...Read More
