Elizabeth Warren has barely had time to warm her seat as the new U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, but she wasted no time sending a new fundraising note today — claiming some credit for stoking a populist backlash against the American...
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Elizabeth Warren, shown testifying at a hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in Washington on July 14, 2011.
Elizabeth Warren Quickly Fundraises Off AIG Decision
Congress Approval Rating Dips Even Lower to 14%
The 113th Congress began with a job approval rating dipped to 14 percent, according to a Gallup poll taken after President Barack Obama and lawmakers agreed to extend the Bush tax cuts for most Americans and postponed decisions on spending. The...
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Wind turbines generate power at the San Gorgonio Pass Wind Farm in Whitewater, Calif.
Gramm: Windmills an Eyesore, Energy Tax Credits a Waste
Phil Gramm, a former U.S. Republican senator from Texas who now advises hedge funds, may have a new role: chief wind-energy antagonist. Gramm, a fiscal conservative who sought to cut federal spending during his career in Congress, says a tax...
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai (L) and U.S. President Barack Obama hold a joint news conference in the East Room of the White House Jan. 11, 2013 in Washington.
Obama-Karzai: Springtime Handoff for Security, U.S. Draw-Down Follows
President Barack Obama, discussing the hand-off of security in Afghanistan to the government of Hamid Karzai and the draw-down of U.S. troops, was asked today of the “huge” cost of life involved in the war there is justified — in...
Read more »Booker Books a 2014 Senate Race
Democratic mayor of Newark, New Jersey: Magnet for Wall Street money. Scooper-upper of imperiled neighbor in a burning apartment. Now, filer of Federal Election Commission Form 1, “Statement of Organization,” to run for U.S. Senate in 2014. Cory Booker, 44,...
Read more »West Virginia Republicans Look to End Losing Streak Post-Rockefeller
Senator Jay Rockefeller’s retirement at the end of 2014 gives West Virginia Republicans an opportunity to end one of their party’s longest losing streaks. Republicans have lost 21 consecutive Senate races in West Virginia, spanning more than half a century. That includes...
Read more »Gun Day: If Only Slaves Were Armed
Gun Appreciation Day is coming up, as everyone is sure to appreciate. And Larry Ward, chairman of Gun Appreciation Day, explained today why there’s no problem in the Jan. 19 event coinciding with the weekend on which the Rev. Martin...
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U.S. President Barack Obama delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, Jan. 24, 2012.
State of the Union: Debt Ceiling Here
President Barack Obama was formally invited today to give this year’s State of the Union address on Feb. 12. That is Abraham Lincoln’s birthday. Obama will take his official oath of office for a second term on Jan. 20 on...
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Protestors demonstrate in front of the US Supreme Court in Washington. This week marks the 11th anniversary of the opening of the prison.
Washington Daybook: Troop Talks
President Barack Obama holds a press conference today at the White House with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai after talks on how many of the 66,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan should remain after 2014 to help fight terrorists. Karzai is seeking...
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Chairman Pete Sessions, R-Texas, standing, greets Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Texas, as Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., looks on, during the first House Rules Committee.
Southern Discomfort: Fights Ahead
With President Barack Obama and Congress poised to clash over spending cuts and raising the $16.4 trillion federal debt limit, reaching a deal may be complicated by a North-South divide among Republicans made wider by the 2012 elections. In the South, most...
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