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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi speaks to the media flanked by fellow members of Congress on Capitol Hill on Dec. 5, 2012.
Pelosi’s Team: `Looks Like America’
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, “beaming with pride” at the “diversity” among her party’s leadership, today introduced the new top Democrats on House committees. Pelosi spoke to reporters after the House Democratic Caucus elected Nita Lowey to be the top...
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Speaker of the House John Boehner arrives for his press conference on fiscal cliff negotiations at the Capitol on Nov. 30, 2012.
Boehner’s Counter-Offer: No Taxes — Calls Obama’s Bid `La-La Land’
House Republicans have responded to President Barack Obama’s fiscal-cliff averting offer. The response lacks the one thing the White House insists will be essential to an agreement: Higher tax rates for the highest-earning Americans. The Republicans, rejecting Obama’s demand for...
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President Barack Obama signs into law an $858 billion bill extending the Bush-era tax cuts for two more years on Dec. 17, 2010.
Cole: One Republican Ready to Deal
Count Tom Cole among the congressmen ready to cut a deal. The Republican representative from Oklahoma says he has advised fellow Republicans that they should accede to President Barack Obama’s demand that Congress extend the Bush-era tax cuts for American...
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat from California, in 2011. Photograph by Scott Eells/Bloomberg
Pelosi Holds on to House Democrats
Updated at 10:15 am EST “A picture is worth 1,000 words,” Nancy Pelosi said today, standing alongside several women elected anew to the House of Representatives. This picture, she said, is worth millions of votes. “I come here with my...
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John Boehner on Capitol Hill.
Boehner: White House Contest a `Card Game’
House Speaker John Boehner says he isn’t going to be discouraged by “political handwringing by these Washington insiders.” They are “trying to make this race look like its over for the president, who’s going to win.” With some polls showing...
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Speaker of the House John Boehner prepares to drive the first nail for the 2013 Inaugural Platform at the Capitol.
Boehner on Romney Gaffe: ‘The Election is About Jobs’
On a day that the House planned a vote to tighten work requirements for certain welfare recipients, Speaker John Boehner brushed aside questions about Mitt Romney’s characterization of people dependent on government support who need to “take personal responsibility for...
Read more »Delegate Disagrees With Leaders on Why Jerusalem Dropped from Platform
A Democratic delegate who runs the Arab-American Institute in Washington disagrees with the contention of party leaders that a reference to Jerusalem being the capital of Israel was inadvertently left out of the Democratic Party’s 2012 platform. James Zogby says...
Read more »Sun-Check: Stadium Tickets Switch to Convention-Watching Party
Hudnreds of volunteers who held community tickets to see President Barack Obama address the Democratic National Convention at an outdoor stadium lined up to see him at a different venue. The threat of violent thunderstorms forced organizers to move the...
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Filling out job applications at a job fair in Washington, DC.
Tomorrow’s Jobless Numbers Concern Convention Democrats
Dick Durbin, the Senate’s No. 2 Democrat, is “concerned” about the August employment figures that will be released tomorrow as Democrats leave Charlotte. They are concluding their three-day convention to nominate President Barack Obama for a second term. A big...
Read more »Occupy Wall Street Protesters Stopped Short of Target in Charlotte
Four rows of police wearing two-foot billy clubs surrounded and blocked a group of more than 75 Occupy Wall Street protesters attempting to march from their encampment in a Charlotte, North Carolina, park toward the city’s Convention Center, where delegates to th Democratic...
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