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Feb 25 2015
News
Senate Democrats Agree To GOP Plan To Fund Department Of Homeland Security
The Senate made its first move on Wednesday to prevent a shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, with just two days remaining until the agency runs out of money.
The upper chamber voted 98-2 on a procedural hurdle that would pave the way for a "clean" funding bill to be brought to the floor, following a deal announced by Senate Democratic leaders earlier in the day. Only Sens.
HuffPostOct 14 2013
News
Budget Talks at Impasse; Democrats Won't Agree on Spending Cuts
Senate Republicans and Democrats hit an impasse Sunday over spending in their last-ditch struggle to avoid an economy-jarring default in just four days and end a partial government shutdown that enters its third week.
After inconclusive talks between President Barack Obama and House Republicans, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., took
Newsmax (News)Oct 01 2014
News
Problems so bad, ObamaCare almost looks good
It’s been a year since the Obama administration presided over the crash landing of ObamaCare, so what have we learned? First, the human beings remain almost uniformly bad at predicting the future at any distance. Attitudes about the law are basically identical to this point in 2013. There has been no “death spiral” but neither has there been much change of heart about a law Americans do not
Fox News (Online News)Mar 19 2019
News
Trump officials prepared to stonewall Democratic oversight demands
Trump doesn’t plan to negotiate with Congress over investigations the way his predecessors did.
House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler wrote to the White House last month demanding information about President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency to fund the construction of a southern border wall.
Yet Nadler’s Feb. 22 deadline came and went with no response. Not only
PoliticoFeb 23 2015
News
Arab Officials Warn U.S. of Giving ISIS a Propaganda Win
It’s not only important when the Islamic State is pushed out of the Iraqi city of Mosul but by who, according to U.S. and Arab officials.
Planning between the Pentagon, Iraqi government and Kurdish Peshmerga forces to retake Mosul, a million-person city in western Iraq, is intensifying. Some U.S. officials have said a major air and ground offensive on Mosul could begin as early as April
Wall Street Journal (News)Feb 21 2015
News
Rudy Giuliani's fall from America's Mayor
Rudy wouldn't be Rudy if he backed down.
But by amplifying his charge that President Barack Obama doesn't love America, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani appears ready to risk sullying the powerful mythology that grew around his leadership when he steadied and steeled the nation in the terrible, confusing time after 9/11.
Since those fleeting days when he was a unifying figure
CNN (Online News)Mar 06 2013
Opinion
On “spending,†Republicans are immune to facts
This morning, the Republican National Committee released a web video asking Democratic leaders to admit the United States has a “spending problem. After showing footage of House Democratic leaders each denying a federal “spending problem, it ends with this statement: “The first step to fixing a problem is to admit you have one. Its a clever message, but it runs into a big problem: The facts
Washington PostJun 28 2012
News
Ruling plays into campaign narrative for both sides
The U.S. Supreme Court's narrow upholding of the health care reform law's constitutionality will launch a complex political ballet, with President Barack Obama and Democrats claiming victory and Republicans vowing to "repeal it lock, stock and barrel." In a complicated 5-4 decision, the court upheld the law and found that the so-called individual mandate can be constitutional under Congress's
CNN (Online News)Oct 07 2013
News
Software, Design Defects Cripple Health-Care Website
Six days into the launch of insurance marketplaces created by the new health-care law, the federal government acknowledged for the first time Sunday it needed to fix design and software problems that have kept customers from applying online for coverage.
The Obama administration said last week that an unanticipated surge of Web traffic caused most of the problems and was a sign of high
Wall Street Journal (News)Feb 28 2013
News
Congress passes bill renewing anti-violence law
The House on Thursday passed and sent to President Obama a far-reaching extension of the Violence Against Women Act. The vote came after House Republican leaders, cognizant of divisions in their own ranks and the need to improve their faltering image among female voters, accepted a bill that cleared the Senate two weeks ago on a strong bipartisan vote. The bill renews a 1994 law that has set
Washington Times