Reporting from Washington - With the Senate's 60-39 vote to proceed to debate, after Thanksgiving, on a healthcare bill that the president is seeking by year's end, the debate of the 2010 midterm elections has been joined. Democrats, in control of ...Read More
WASHINGTON -- A White House analysis of a federal purchase of the nearly vacant northwestern Illinois prison to house Guantanamo detainees and other federal prisoners, obtained by the Sun-Times on Saturday, concludes that in the first year 2,290 to 2,960 ...Read More
You may feel daunted by the number of pages in these health reform bills, not to mention the legislative language that is often impossible to decipher. But here are some important provisions in the new Senate Health Care bill that ...Read More
WASHINGTON - -- By admitting over the weekend that the world will have to wait at least until next year for a legally binding treaty to curb global warming, President Barack Obama and fellow Pacific Rim government leaders dramatically lowered ...Read More
WASHINGTON—The Senate has begun voting on whether to move ahead on a sweeping health care bill. The roll call began with many of the 100 members seated in their chairs and rising to vote. Such formal voting is common with Supreme ...Read More
WASHINGTON — Now that unemployment has topped 10 percent, some liberal-leaning economists see confirmation of their warnings that the $787 billion stimulus package President Obama signed into law last February was way too small. The economy needs a second big ...Read More
WASHINGTON – Suitably opaque, Section 2006 takes up only a few dozen lines in a sweeping health care bill that runs to 2,074 pages and mentions neither Sen. Mary Landrieu nor her state of Louisiana.
But the section's purpose is indisputable: ...Read More
President Barack Obama took office promising to lead from the center and solve big problems. He has exerted enormous political energy attempting to reform the nation's health-care system. But the biggest economic problem facing the nation is not health care. ...Read More
West Palm Beach, FL (AHN) – Former CNN host Lou Dobbs says he is not ruling out running for Senate or making a run for the White House in 2012.
Dobbs, 64, has been answering questions about his future since leaving ...Read More
The White House is once again distributing a statement from a Republican in support of health care reform.
On the eve of a crucial Senate vote on whether to proceed with its health bill, the Obama administration on Friday distributed the ...Read More
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