The federal government’s financial slim-fast known as sequestration is starting to squeeze all the wrong curves, and the March jobs report is feeling the burn.
Proposition 8, plus the Defense of Marriage Act, equals the U.S. Supreme Court — which will decide the future formula for legal marriage, according to the federal government after hearing oral arguments last week.
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul put his mouth where his money was last Wednesday, March 6, and engaged the Senate in a rarely seen, often threatened, legitimate filibuster contesting the confirmation of C.I.A.
Congressional lawmakers threw up their hands and headed home last Friday abandoning the last failsafe against $85 billion in automatic federal spending cuts, leaving the nation on an autopilot nosedive into the first sequester in U.S.
The “big guns” in Congress want the real big guns off the shelves, according to the new Assault Weapons Ban of 2013 introduced by the Democratic Senate late last month. Passed in its present form, the bill would prevent the sale, transfer, importation or manufacturing of more than 150 popular military-style assault weapons bought and sold nationwide.
In his fourth State of the Union address last Tuesday, Feb. 12, President Barack Obama said the state of the union is good, though the unity of the state is still up for debate. That debate began even before the president finished his speech with congressional leadership ironically illustrating the hyper-partisan climate on Capitol Hill.
Headlines on Capitol Hill sounded more like Ian Fleming espionage novels this week as a leaked memo over drone assassinations surfaced just in time for the confirmation hearing of CIA director nominee John Brennan. The justice department legal memo released by NBC news last Tuesday, Feb.
There was nothing to fear except partisanship itself in the Senate Thursday, Jan. 31 as lawmakers passed a bill raising the debt ceiling to May in anticipation of unsuccessful negotiations in March.
The recent cliffhanger rescue by the new 113th Congress was nothing compared to the mountain ahead as the Democratic Senate and the Republican House tackle sequestration, gun control and international security. In a temporary fiscal cliff dodge, the House of Representatives voted Jan.
As Republicans and Democrats continue to climb the mountain of political negotiations, and near the peak of 2013, the U.S.
Election predictions went from close tie to colossal tidal wave Tuesday night after President Barack Obama swept seven out of eight swing states to cement his re-election and four more years with 332 Electoral College votes.
Tragedy brings people together — and in the case of Hurricane Sandy’s East Coast landfall last Monday, the result is taking aggressive election year campaign politics apart —at least for a moment. As eight states recover from declarations of emergency and some estimated $50 billion in damages, President Barack Obama and Gov.
Four years of foreign policy experience plus 90 minutes of nationally televised talk time equals another debate win for President Barack Obama after sparring with Gov.
President Obama certainly was not “napping through” his second presidential debate last Tuesday night at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., but it was a rude awakening for Republican candidate Governor Mitt Romney as he was battered on socio-economics and foreign policy – the large majority of media outlets gave the night to the President. The town hall debate format consisted of independent, undecided voters posing questions to the candidates directly with CNN’s Candy Crowley moderating between.
As election campaign sparring shifts from domestic issues to foreign policy in the wake of an attack on the U.S.
As the election year downshifts into the final turn before the straightaway, there is no disputing that America is on the edge of its seat for the most contested part of the race.
The largest percentage of campaign news this past week was in regard to Mitt Romney’s ‘47 percent’ — a statistic he quoted at a fundraiser representing the percentage of Americans who do not pay income tax and sustain themselves primarily on government assistance programs, according to the Romney campaign. “There are 47 percent of people who will vote for the president no matter what,” Romney told attendees of a small campaign fundraiser before describing the group as the unemployed, low-income, government-subsistence and tax-exempt Democratic half of the electorate. According to the most recent poll of likely voters taken by the Associated Press, 47 percent is exactly the portion in the president’s camp for four more years, with Romney claiming the remaining 46 percent.
As the election year downshifts into the final turn before the straightaway, there is no disputing that America is on the edge of its seat for the most contested part of the race.
