U.S. Rep. Sander Levin, a Democrat from Michigan, recalls his last substantive issue discussion with a Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee. It was 13 years ago. He and Bill Thomas, then a Republican congressman from California who served as the...
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Rep. Sander Levin, D-Mich., makes his way around the Cannon rotunda.
Congressional Dysfunction Breeds Nostalgia for Spirit of Compromise
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O. Henry
Presidential Pardons: Few From Obama, and None for O. Henry
President Barack Obama hasn’t pardoned a lot of people. The 22 presidential pardons and one commutation of sentence issued by the president after four years in office amount to the fewest granted by any full-term president since George Washington, by...
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Former President Bill Clinton, right, introduces his wife Hillary Clinton, at the annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) in New York.
Hillary Clinton’s $200,000-Plus Talking Points: Major League Speaker
As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton made $186,000 a year. As a former secretary of state, senator from New York, first lady and generally a “Friend of Bill” involved in her husband’s foundation work, she will make more than $200,000...
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Tiger Woods walks to the practice range before playing a practice round for the Match Play Championship golf tournament, on Feb. 19, 2013, in Marana, Ariz.
Woods: Obama’s Game Needs Work — A Project for the Next Four Years
Tiger Woods had some kind words for at least part of President Barack Obama’s golf game. Woods, who partnered with the president at the Floridian National club in Palm City over the weekend, reports that their team won (and split...
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Senior citizens protest against cuts to federal safety net programs, including Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid in Chicago.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: $2.4 Trillion
That’s the amount of deficit reduction projected over 10 years under a new proposal from Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson. Bowles and Simpson, who led President Barack Obama’s 2010 deficit commission, introduced a plan yesterday that would achieve savings in...
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President Barack Obama, center, arrives to deliver the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Feb. 12, 2013.
Trillion-Dollar Math Quiz: Does Obama Pass?
President Bill Clinton sang the praises of “arithmetic” in his 2012 convention speech. President Barack Obama relied on “math” in his debates with Mitt Romney to argue for his deficit reduction package. But Obama has used some contradictory numbers himself....
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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie laughs with David Letterman when the governor makes his first visit to CBS' "Late Show with David Letterman," on Feb. 4.
Christie to Doctor: ‘Shut Up’
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has some advice for the long-distance doctor who advises him to lose weight: “Shut up.” The Republican governor, speaking in Sea Girt today, commented on a news report of Connie Mariano, a physician who worked for...
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Roberto Briones places a poster for the new film "Koch"by Neil Barsky outside of the Angelica Film Center on the morning that the iconic former New York mayor passed away Feb. 1, 2013 in New York City.
Washington Daybook: Guns and a Funeral
President Barack Obama will continue his push to rally support for gun control proposals in a trip to Minnesota today as lawmakers in Arkansas vote on a bill that would permit concealed handguns in churches and other houses of worship,...
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Hillary Clinton stickers at a presidential campaign event for her in New York in this file photo.
Hillary Clinton Debt-Free for 2016
Outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, often mentioned as a potential 2016 Democratic presidential candidate, has cleared up her finances from her unsuccessful 2008 candidacy. New Federal Election Commission filings show she has fully paid all of her campaign debts,...
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Former President Jimmy Carter, right, waves while arriving with his wife Rosalynn Carter, center, during the presidential inauguration in Washington on Jan. 21, 2013.
Jimmy Carter’s Longest-Running Post-Oval Office Performance
Among the dignitaries who got a bird’s-eye view of the swearing-in ceremony for President Barack Obama’s second term yesterday, ex-President Bill Clinton — with his mane of snow-white hair and ever-expressive face — was especially hard to miss. Blending more into the...
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