In Washington, it’s often more the cover-up than the scandal that undoes a president. “And when it’s over, we’ll be hard-pressed to remember how it began.” So wrote Jay Carney, then a correspondent for Time magazine, in 2007, in the...
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White House press secretary Jay Carney, rear, is seen on a television monitor during his daily news briefing at the White House.
Carney: ‘Scandals Metastasize’ — in the Industrial-Scandal Complex
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Copies of the Obama Administration's proposed FY 2014 federal budget at the Government Printing Office Book Store on April 10, 2013 in Washington, DC.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: $642 Bln
That’s the projected budget deficit for fiscal 2013, according to the Congressional Budget Office. That projection is about $200 billion below the $845 billion estimate that CBO released in February. The decrease is “mostly as a result of higher-than-expected revenues...
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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) building in Washington, D.C.
Holder: Justice Investigating IRS
Written with Richard Rubin and Phil Mattingly Attorney General Eric Holder said today that the Justice Department has opened an investigation of the IRS’s examination of conservative political organizations to see if any crimes were committed. Yet he said he...
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Rep. Joe Sestak (D-PA), standing onstage with his wife Susan and daughter Alex, concedes the Pennsylvania Senate race to Republican Pat Toomey November 3, 2010 at the Radnor Hotel in St. Davids, Pennsylvania.
Sestak Eyes Pennsylvania Comeback — in 2016
Just six months have passed since the last election and 18 months remain until the next one in November 2014. Pennsylvania Democrat Joe Sestak already is planning for the election after that. Sestak, a former House member who lost a...
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Immigrant workers package freshly-picked organic persimmons in Santa Cruz, California.
Too Few Hands for Hand-Picked Fruit?
Bill Landreth bought a second tractor as Berries by Bill Inc. sold more melons, sweet corn and strawberries. He also expanded to 200 the acreage of his Newport, Arkansas, farm devoted to the fruits and vegetables, though that’s where the growth...
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Right fielder Bryce Harper, #34 of the Washington Nationals, walks off the field with trainer Lee Kuntz as he bleeds from the neck after running into the wall chasing a triple hit by A.J. Ellis of the Los Angeles Dodgers in the fifth inning at Dodger Stadium on May 13, 2013.
Bryce Harper: Congressional Harmony ala Washington Nationals
The injured Bryce Harper, the Washington Nationals’ prolific outfielder, can add another accomplishment to his budding career – bringing Democrats and Republicans together. Majority Leader Harry Reid opened the Senate this morning with news that “the Republican leader and I...
Read more »House Republican Fundraising Claims Don’t Match Statistics
Updated 1:00 pm EST Visitors to the National Republican Congressional Committee’s website are told how the party “most heavily” relies on small donors while its Democratic counterpart’s “primary sources of funding” include labor unions, trial lawyers and Democratic House members....
Read more »Reignited Benghazi Debate Doesn’t Sway Public Opinion
Congressional Republicans’ renewed focus on the 2012 attacks on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, has yet to transform the matter into a dominant public concern, according to two new polls. The surveys show limited interest in what some Republicans are calling...
Read more »Holder: Critics of Federal Court Terrorist Prosecution ‘Simply Wrong’
Attorney General Eric Holder, maintaining that people accused of terrorism against the United States can be tried in federal courts, says those who say the courts can’t handle such high-profile cases “are not just registering a dissenting opinion — they...
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Prince Harry with first lady Michelle Obama during an event to honor military families at the White House on May 9, 2013 in Washington, DC.
Washington Daybook: Harrymania
Prince Harry was the subject of so many photographs by young, female Capitol Hill staffers during his visit yesterday that London’s Daily Telegraph diagnosed Washington with a case of “Harrymania.” The doctors, nurses and veterans at the Walter Reed Military...
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