President Barack Obama warned Monday that failure to quickly raise the federal debt ceiling would “wreck” the economy and hold up Social Security and veterans’ benefits.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid broke days of silence on Sunday evening to deny any knowledge or involvement in a Utah case in which a man claims to have funneled money to others in an attempt to get Reid to intervene in an FTC case.
Douglas C. Roach, the longtime staff director for the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces, died Jan. 11. He was 70.
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid broke days of silence on Sunday evening to deny any knowledge or involvement in a Utah case in which a man claims to have funneled money to others in an attempt to get the Nevada Democrat to intervene in a Federal Trade Commission case.
When former Rep. Steve Bartlett, R-Texas, stepped down last year from the Financial Services Roundtable, he said he wasn’t retiring. He announced Monday that he’s joining the crisis communications firm Levick as a strategic policy adviser.
Sen. Bob Corker raised questions Sunday about former Sen. Chuck Hagel’s “temperament,” adding another element to the debate over President Barack Obama’s nominee to be the next secretary of Defense.
Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s bona fides as the ultimate Capitol Hill creature have gotten a significant boost since the November elections, first in the fiscal cliff negotiations and now via the gun violence task force he’s leading.
Newark Mayor Cory Booker would not rule out a primary challenge against New Jersey Democratic Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg during an interview Sunday on “Meet the Press.”
The White House ruled out minting a trillion dollar platinum coin to defuse the crisis over the debt ceiling, saying Saturday that Congress must act to avert an unprecedented default.
Sen. Jay Rockefeller’s retirement announcement Friday formally kicked off a scramble among West Virginia Democrats, some of whom have been pining to run for an open Senate seat for decades.
Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Edward J. Markey, staffing up in anticipation of a Senate special election, has hired Sarah Benzing as his campaign manager.
A few weeks ago, local activists launched a WhiteHouse.gov petition to compel President Barack Obama to swap, before Inauguration Day, the current license plates on his official vehicles for plates bearing the city motto, “Taxation Without Representation.”
The United States and Afghanistan made progress this week in resolving a dispute over the handling of detainees held in Afghanistan, improving the odds, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Friday, that the two countries will be able to reach a post-2014 security agreement.
Bad news for revelers wanting to cut loose before the beginning of Lent: Speaker John A. Boehner has invited President Barack Obama to deliver his State of the Union address on Feb. 12. That happens to be Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday.
Rep. Phil Gingrey, R-Ga., stepped into the Todd Akin rape controversy this week, telling a group of constituents that the former Missouri GOP congressman was “partly right” in saying that a woman’s body can prevent pregnancy in events of “legitimate rape.”
President Barack Obama nominated Chief of Staff Jacob J. Lew to be the next Treasury secretary Thursday afternoon as expected, calling on Congress to confirm him as quickly as possible.
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