In the selling of the immigration plan that Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer of New York and six other members of both parties plan to unveil Tuesday, the debate starts with one word: Amnesty. That’s...
Read more »
Photograph by Alex Wong/Getty Images
Rubio: The Selling of Immigration
Photograph by Spencer Platt/Getty Images
A pro gun t-shirt before a speech by President Barack Obama at the University of Hartford on April 8, 2013 in Connecticut.
Gun Control Higher Priority than Immigration Overhaul: Poll
Gun legislation scores as a higher priority than rewriting immigration laws in a CNN/ORC International poll out today. The survey of 1,012 adults showed 71 percent saying that it was important for the president and Congress to deal with gun legislation,...
Read more »
FOX News
Former President George W. Bush has taken up painting.
George Bush Wants to Paint Your Dog
George W. Bush, one of the nation’s retired presidents, has become of late one of its most avid painters. The 43rd president of the United States has become a prolific practitioner of brush on canvas. And like every other pastime...
Read more »
Photograph by Win McNamee/Getty Images
President Barack Obama is escorted by Speaker of the House John Boehner while leaving the Capitol on March 19, 2013 in Washington.
Boehner on Obama: Teasing the ‘Ones You Love’
President Barack Obama just can’t seem to resist cracking wise about Congress, even when the timing of his humor seems a bit off. Back in late December, a laugh line he aimed at Capitol Hill even as tense talks neared a...
Read more »
Photograph by Susan Walsh/AP Photo
Sen. John McCain, right, asks a question of former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel, center, President Barack Obama's choice for defense secretary, on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Jan. 31, 2013, during the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on his nomination. Sen. James Inhofe, the ranking member of the committee, listens at left.
Hagel’s McCain: Friends Like This
Washington has redefined pretty much every other standard. Why not friendship, too? In a town where the only true best friend remains a dog — yeah, yeah, it wasn’t Harry Truman, but rather the “Give ‘em Hell” play about him,...
Read more »
Photograph by Jeffrey Neira/CBS via Getty Images
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...
Read more »Corker Bets His Life on Tax Deal — Allows a Wide Window for the Wager
“I would bet my life,” Sen. Robert Corker said today, that most Americans will be “rescued” from tax increases — either by New Year’s Eve or within the next couple weeks. “We’re going to deal with this tax issue, either...
Read more »
Photograph by Alex Wong/Getty Images
Secretary of Treasury Timothy Geithner at the Capitol for meeting with Congressional leaders on Nov. 29, 2012.
Geithner’s `Full Ginsburg:’ Sunday
Tim Geithner, secretary of the treasury, is performing a “Full Ginsburg” this weekend. That’s the colloquial term for what the point-man in the Obama administration’s fiscal cliff talks will achieve Sunday morning, when he appears on ABC’s “This Week,” CBS’s...
Read more »Norquist’s Brash Managerie: Pledge-Breakers Beware the `Sugar Plums’
Grover Norquist, never at a loss for words, is employing an increasingly purple collection of them to lash erstwhile Republican allies mulling abandonment of the anti-tax pledge which he’s used for years to thwart federal tax increases. In recent days,...
Read more »
Photograph by Olivier Douliery/Pool via Bloomberg
President Barack Obama, right, and House Speaker John Boehner, a Republican from Ohio, during a meeting in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in the first face-to-face talks on reducing the deficit.
Obama More Influential — Republicans More to Blame: Poll
President Barack Obama will have more influence over the nation’s direction during the next two years than congressional Republicans will have, according to 61 percent of Americans surveyed. Just 33 percent say congressional Republicans will have more influence. The CNN/ORC...
Read more »
Contributors
-
Al Hunt
is a columnist for Bloomberg View and host of the weekly show "Political Capital with Al Hunt" on Bloomberg TV. -
Mark Silva
is deputy managing editor for government news in Washington and editor of Political Capital. He has covered the White House and national politics. -
Emma Fidel
is political editor for Bloomberg.com in Washington. She previously covered financial regulation as a Bloomberg intern. -
Don Frederick
edits political and government coverage for Bloomberg News. He previously worked for more than a decade at the Los Angeles Times' Washington bureau. -
Gregory Giroux
analyzes elections, financing of congressional and presidential elections, political advertising and demographics in Bloomberg's Washington Bureau. -
Julie Bykowicz
covers the influence of money and lobbying in Washington, and covered the state legislature and city crime for the Baltimore Sun for 10 years. -
Jonathan Salant
covers campaign finance and lobbying in Washington. He was president of the National Press Club and started in Washington in 1987. -
Richard Rubin
covers federal tax policy. He worked at Congressional Quarterly and The Charlotte Observer before joining Bloomberg News in 2010. -
Stephanie Green
is a writer and photographer for Bloomberg Muse, the arts and leisure section of Bloomberg News. She has also written for The Washington Post, The Huffington Post and The Washington Times. -
Julie Hirschfeld Davis
is a senior political reporter for the Washington Bureau. She covered the 2012 campaign for Bloomberg News and previously covered the White House for the Baltimore Sun. -
Lisa Lerer
covers the White House and covered the 2012 campaign for Bloomberg News. She covered Congress, lobbying and the 2008 campaign for Politico. -
John McCormick
is a national political reporter looking forward to the 2016 presidential campaign, which will be the fifth he's covered. He's also reported for The Des Moines Register and Chicago Tribune. -
Julianna Goldman
covers the White House for Bloomberg News and Bloomberg Television. -
Hans Nichols
covers the White House for Bloomberg News and Bloomberg Television. -
Margaret Talev
covers the White House for Bloomberg News and covered the White House for McClatchy Newspapers. She has covered California and Florida politics. -
Cary O'Reilly
is Editor at Large at Bloomberg First Word and is Washington Daybook columnist for Bloomberg Government and Bloomberg News.
