Was Vice President Joe Biden showing his hand — and thus the administration’s — on the Keystone Pipeline? A Sierra Club volunteer in South Carolina says Biden appeared to indicate his opposition to TransCanada Corp.’s Keystone XL in a brief conversation with her...
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Biden Showing White House’s Hand on Keystone?
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President Barack Obama listens to a question during a press conference in the East Room of the White House on May 7, 2013 in Washington.
Obama’s Effectiveness Slips: Pew Poll
Gridlock doesn’t play well in Peoria. President Barack Obama’s job approval — 51 percent in a Pew Research Center survey released today — has gained a few points since March, when Pew found 47 percent public support. Yet six months...
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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie speaks at a joint press conference on November 4, 2012 in Hoboken, New Jersey.
Christie Confronts 2016, Springsteen’s Bouncers, Fleece Jokes
The key to Chris Christie’s success? It must be the fleece. The New Jersey governor, a 50-year-old-old Republican who made headlines yesterday disclosing his secret weight-loss surgery, poked fun at his purported 2016 White House ambitions and the now-famous monogrammed...
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Campaign signs are stuck in a lawn as Elizabeth Colbert Busch speaks to media after casting her vote in a special election runoff with former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford for a seat in the 1st Congressional District on May 7, 2013 in Charleston, South Carolina.
South Carolina Election Viewers’ Guide
Republican Mark Sanford and Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch faced the voters today in a special election in South Carolina’s 1st District in and around Charleston. Sanford, a former governor and congressman seeking a return to political life four years after...
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FSA fighters clear a room in a newly conquered building along the front line of Sheikh Saeed a highly contested area of Aleppo, Syria, on March 18, 2013.
Obama: ‘Not Doing Nothing’ in Syria
President Barack Obama is remembering Iraq. And the world, he says, will remember what the U.S. did about Osama bin Laden and Muammar Qaddafi. All of this has to do with the “red line” — the use of chemical weapons...
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First lady Michelle Obama signs copies of her book "American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Garden Across America" at the Politics & Prose bookstore in Washington, on May 7, 2013.
White House: Gardening and Doughnuts
While the first lady was out in the rain today talking about healthy eating at a book-signing, the White House chief of staff was inside and dry sharing some doughnuts with the press. Michelle Obama is using her book about...
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Former first lady and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks with her husband former president Bill Clinton as they attend the opening ceremony of the George W. Bush Presidential Center on April 25, 2013 in Dallas, Texas.
Bill Clinton: Hillary 2016 Speculation Waste of Time
Bill Clinton says it’s a waste of time to speculate about his wife’s ambitions for 2016. “That is the worst expenditure of our time,” the former president said today at a 2013 Fiscal Summit sponsored by the Peterson Foundation. Hillary...
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President Barack Obama with former Presidents George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and former First Lady Barbara Bush at the opening of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum in Dallas, Texas, on April 25, 2013.
Obama: ‘Not Done Yet’
Much like the Mark Twain evoked at the president’s last news conference, Organizing for Action wants people to know that the president reelected in November is “not done yet.” President Barack Obama invited the question when he appeared in the...
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Texas Governor Rick Perry speaks during the 2013 NRA Annual Meeting and Exhibits at the George R. Brown Convention Center on May 4, 2013 in Houston, Texas.
Rick Perry, Sure-Shot: ‘Welcome to Texas, Ladies and Gentlemen’
Rick Perry handles an assault weapon pretty well. That was the video message of the introduction to Perry’s appearance at the National Rifle Association convention in Houston over the weekend. The Texas governor knocked down a few targets for his...
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President Barack Obama, second from the right, talks with Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., far right, as he plays on the golf course at Andrews Air Force Base alongside Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., far left, and Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo., second from the left, on May 6, 2013.
Obama’s Bipartisan Foursome: Fore!
Updated at 6 and 6:25 pm EDT It’s not often that the president goes golfing on a Monday. It’s not often that the president goes anywhere with Republicans. And it’s even more unusual for the White House to permit a...
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