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Obama speech on terrorism
President Obama on Thursday spoke at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C., outlining his vision for the future of the U.S. fight against terrorism. Here is the text of the speech, as provided by the White House: (As Prepared for Delivery --) It’s an honor to return to the ...
The fine print of immigration reform legislation
As work begins in the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on immigration reform legislation, Senators have laid out 300 amenmdents to what is now an 867 page bill, covering everything from immigration issues involving same-sex spouses to plans that prevent anyone in the U.S. illegally from becoming a U.S. citizen. Supporters ...
Congress returns to active legislative agenda
With the next vacation break just three weeks away for Memorial Day, the Congress returns to work this week with a series of issues on the agenda that could certainly spur some animated partisan battles up and down Pennsylvania Avenue. The first order of business in the Senate on Monday ...
Obama Administration rolls out new health insurance forms
The Obama Administration unveiled new draft forms Tuesday for people to apply for insurance coverage under the Obama health law, releasing signup applications which are much shorter and less complex than an earlier version that drew criticism from backers and critics alike of the health reform law. "Consumers will have ...
Questions after the Boston Marathon bombings
The political aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings is just beginning, as both parties wait to see how it may impact a number of different issues, ranging from the conduct of anti-terrorism work by the U.S. Government to immigration, gun laws and more. In the wake of terrorist attacks, it ...
Democrats yank gun bill off Senate floor
A day after the U.S. Senate rejected a series of gun control plans backed by President Obama, Democratic leaders decided to put that work on hold and move on to other legislation, unable to muster enough votes to push gun plans past Republican opposition. "This debate is not over," said ...
Gun control efforts stymied in U.S. Senate
While Congressional Democrats talked Wednesday about how they would keep trying to push gun control legislation through the U.S. Congress, work on a Senate gun bill could soon be abandoned, after the Senate rejected a series of plans from President Obama to combat gun violence. "This was a pretty shameful ...
Senators introduce immigration reform bill
After months of negotiation, a bipartisan group of eight Senators has formally introduced immigration reform legislation in the Senate, titled the "Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act." It weighs in at 844 pages. The full text of the bill was posted early this morning by the office of Sen. ...
Border Patrol puts furlough plans on hold
After predicting as many as 14 furlough days and a loss of overtime for border agents, the Customs and Border Protection agency put those plans on hold on Monday, telling workers that those plans have been shelved because of a budget bill recently approved by the Congress. That budget plan ...
Immigration reform pushed back in Congress
With a small group of Senators still working on an immigration reform plan, the chairman of a key Senate committee said Wednesday he does not see his panel doing anything on the controversial subject until at least May. "Without legislative language, there is nothing for the Judiciary Committee to consider ...
Sen. Rand Paul speech on immigration reform
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) laid out this thoughts on immigration reform in a spech today, which was billed by initial news reports as one where Paul endorsed a path to citizenship. But digging into the details of the speech, that headline may not be so clear. "Conservatives, myself included, ...
Sequester hits Uncle Sam unevenly
While the automatic budget cuts known as the sequester are chopping money at the same percentage rate from different federal agencies, a review of options to deal with the cuts shows the impact of those spending reductions varies greatly between federal departments. For example, civilian defense workers - as many ...
No end to debate on sequester impact
It has now been two weeks since automatic budget cuts kicked in, and Political Washington is still waiting to see whether there will be a dramatic impact as forecast by Democrats, or if ominous predictions made by the Obama Administration - and ridiculed by many Republicans - won't exactly come ...
Obama charm offensive hits Capitol Hill
In the press galleries on Capitol Hill over the years, we have seen a lot of trips to the U.S. Capitol by Presidents of both parties, but none of my colleagues can remember a series of visits like we will have over the next three days by President Obama. "He’s ...
GOP lays out post-sequester funding bill
Embracing almost all of the automatic budget cuts that kicked in last Friday for Uncle Sam, Republicans in the House unveiled a plan on Monday afternoon that funds the military and VA for the rest of this fiscal year, and extends a temporary budget plan for the rest of the ...
White House meeting produces no sequester deal
As expected, there was no magic solution unveiled after a meeting Friday morning at the White House between Congressional leaders and the President, as both sides seem headed for a lengthy battle over how to deal with $85 billion in automatic budget cuts. "I told them these cuts will ...
More wrangling over sequester, but no deal
After a closed door meeting with GOP leaders on Wednesday, rank and file Republicans in the House signaled their approval of plans to push ahead next week with a bill to fund the operations of the government, a plan which would also maintain the $85 billion in budget cuts in ...
Release of illegal immigrants irks GOP
In a move that could inflame partisan tensions over both automatic budget cuts and efforts to move immigration reform legislation through the Congress, the Obama Administration has started releasing some illegal immigrants now being held by the feds. This was the story from the Associated Press earlier today that confirmed ...
President Obama's State of the Union
Here is the prepared text of President Barack Obama's 2013 State of the Union Address. This text was sent by reporters by the White House Press Office just before the speech began. = February 12, 2013 Remarks of President Barack Obama – As Prepared for Delivery State of the ...
Obama marks second term with State of the Union
Still facing a divided Congress, President Obama goes before lawmakers and the nation on Tuesday night ready to urge action on economic growth, gun violence, immigration reform and more, with no guarantee of anything but more sharp partisan battles in the months ahead. "What the President has been saying and ...
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