Netanyahu visit continues to stir emotion
His comments come days after House Speaker John Boehner announced that Netanyahu will address Congress in March, two weeks ahead of an Israeli electiona move that caught President Barack Obama’s…
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His comments come days after House Speaker John Boehner announced that Netanyahu will address Congress in March, two weeks ahead of an Israeli electiona move that caught President Barack Obama’s…
Sanders is setting himself up for a major clash in Congress. Republicans now control both houses, and he was recently given the top opposition spot on the Senate Budget Committee….
President Barack Obama has a telling hit list. The veto threats that he’s issued over the last three weeks are a microcosm of American politics, representing the roiling issues of…
WASHINGTON — The White House said on Thursday that President Obama would not meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel when he comes here in March to speak to a…
WASHINGTON — House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) appeared to be have pulled off a masterful political victory against the Obama administration Wednesday when he revealed that he had invited Israeli…
Machiavelli once said that “politics have no relation to morals.” But do politics have any relation to fashion? It’s a question that continues to rattle the very foundations of this…
LAWRENCE, Kan. — President Obama will not meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel when he travels to Washington in March to address a joint session of Congress, the…
But Corker, a Republican from Tennessee, also suggested Tuesday that Netanyahu’s visit would be less divisive by the time he arrives for his joint address to Congress. Corker wouldn’t take…
The president discussed the military campaign against the Islamic State, and the larger battle against violent extremism, during his State of the Union address. WASHINGTON — The long-running debate over…
The president discussed the military campaign against the Islamic State, and the larger battle against violent extremism, during his State of the Union address. WASHINGTON — The long-running debate over…
WASHINGTON — Less than twelve hours after President Barack Obama directly warned lawmakers against nudging their way into talks over Iran’s nuclear program, members of Congress made clear that they…
President Obama giving his State of the Union address to a Republican-controlled Congress.” WASHINGTON — President Obama claimed credit on Tuesday for an improving economy and defiantly told his Republican…
Yet Democrats should not get too excited. Speeches can be moving and they certainly can inspire, but the situation on Capitol Hill remains dire for proponents of liberal reform. Republicans…
Read the entire CNN/ORC poll here – State of the Union viewers tend to be friendly toward the president delivering the speech, but this group also wants to see compromise….
“A few moments ago, we heard the President lay out his vision for the year to come. Even if we may not always agree, it’s important to hear different points…
State of the Union: Obama’s Robin Hood turn “We in no way want to disrupt the State of the Union. We appreciate the fact that all members of Congress will…
“It really is disgusting, if you think about it,” Tim Ryan is saying. The six-foot-four, Italian-Irish Congressman from Ohio is sitting in his office. Behind him is a blown-up photograph…
Tonight the president will politely inform Congress which dreams of his they will be crushing this year. Today marks eight years since Hillary Clinton launched her first presidential campaign, reminding…
The ex-wife of a prosecutor who accused Argentine President Cristina Fernandez of protecting the masterminds of a 1994 bombing does not believe an initial finding that he killed himself on…
The State of the Union address is an occasion for the president to lay out his goals before Congress and the American people. With a Democratic president, you can count…
WASHINGTON — The man in charge of keeping House Democratic votes in line isn’t holding out hope that Republicans will actually cooperate with President Barack Obama. House Minority Whip Steny…
WASHINGTON — One word was noticeably missing from President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address on Tuesday: guns. In a sign that the sun has set on Obama’s gun…
When President Barack Obama called on Congress to raise the minimum wage and strengthen federal equal-pay laws for women, congressional Republicans refused to stand up and support it. Literally. “Of…
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) gave the Republican response to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address on Tuesday. Read the entire text of Ernst’s remarks as prepared for delivery…
The Israeli intelligence agency Mossad has broken ranks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, telling U.S. officials and lawmakers that a new Iran sanctions bill in the U.S. Congress would tank the Iran…
Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew dismissed efforts in Congress to overhaul the nation’s tax laws by lowering the top income tax rate paid by individuals, saying lawmakers should instead focus on…
Add those new proposals to an existing plan to give more help to first-time homebuyers and there appears to be a full year’s agenda on tap as the President prepares…
GOP agenda for Congress: Challenge Obama, prove they can govern – “His unconstitutional executive action is something that we are not going to take lying down. It’s something I think…