(AP) White House ramping up gun violence discussionsBy JULIE PACEAP White House CorrespondentWASHINGTONFacing an end-of-the-month deadline, the Obama administration is calling gun owner groups, victims’ organizations and representatives from the video-game industry to the White House this week for discussions
(AP) Giffords, Kelly launch gun control lobbying effortBy BOB CHRISTIE and BRIAN SKOLOFFAssociated PressPHOENIXFormer U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband launched a political action committee aimed at curbing gun violence on Tuesday, the second anniversary of the Tucson shooting
(AP) Giffords, Kelly launch gun control lobbying effortBy BOB CHRISTIE and BRIAN SKOLOFFAssociated PressPHOENIXFormer U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband launched a political action committee aimed at curbing gun violence on Tuesday, the second anniversary of the Tucson shooting
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – As the Congress rushed last week to approve a “fiscal cliff” tax bill that raised income taxes on the wealthy, Washington lobbyists were fretting over a drama that was playing out within the negotiations: whether the bill
With the “fiscal cliff” past, and the debate (hopefully) shifting towards spending rather than taxes, this ought to be the Tea Party’s moment. Yet the Tea Party, while still strong throughout the country and within the ranks of the GOP,
Sen. Dick Durbin won his first race for Congress by positioning himself as a strong supporter of Israel. In 1982, he took on long-term incumbent Republican Paul Findley and edged him by just over 1,000 votes, chiefly because he was
The strategic miscalculation of Republicans in DC has been to think they are in actual negotiations with the White House and Democrats. They approach any major debate with an initial list of what they will cede, assuming the Democrats will
(AP) White House, GOP draw red lines in debt debateBy ANNE FLAHERTYAssociated PressWASHINGTONStruggling for the upper hand in the next round of debt talks, Republicans and Democrats this weekend drew lines in the sand they said they’d never cross when
Rep. Jose Serrano, a liberal New York Democrat, reintroduced a bill to repeal presidential term limits. On Friday, Serrano introduced resolution 15, which would seek to repeal the 22nd Amendment, which limits presidents to two terms. Serrano introduced the same bill last January, but
In the days leading up to the vote for Speaker for the 113th Congress, Breitbart News reported extensively on a growing movement among conservative members of the House to challenge John Boehner’s reelection. The nation’s political media either ignored these
STEPHANOPOULOS: “And those House Republicans who are worried about Speaker Boehner do — did not vote for the deal, are doing exactly what they — they believe their constituents elected them to do.” WILL: “They are dissenting from the great
The trillion dollar coin is now apparently being taken seriously as an alternative way for the Obama administration to cover the gap between borrowing and spending by simply adding to the resources of the U.S. Treasury, and without convincing Congress
House Democratic Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., discusses the upcoming Congressional fight over raising the debt ceiling.
This morning on CBS’ Face the Nation, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) blithely announced that if she were President Obama, she would simply invoke the 14th Amendment to the Constitution and unilaterally raise the debt ceiling: Well, you ask
In his weekly internet address on Saturday, President Obama continued his bullying rhetoric over Americans debt problem. With the fiscal cliff deal signed into law – the deal raised income taxes dramatically on everyone making above $400,000 per year and
Hi, everybody. Over the past year, as I traveled across the country campaigning for this office, I told you that if I was fortunate enough to be re-elected, I’d work to change a tax code that too often benefited the
To get an indication of how much some in the pundit class are dreading the looming fight over the debt ceiling, consider the latest daft idea to get around the nation’s borrowing limit. A great swathe of the on-line world
The Obama administration and Democrats in Congress are launching a massive gun control campaign as the President begins his second term and a divided Capitol Hill returns to work. Billed as a response to the Sandy Hook shootings in December,
Nancy Pelosi, the leader of the Democrats in the House of Representatives and former Speaker of the House, is defending a faked photograph released on Thursday showing the “diversity” of the female members of the Democrat delegation to Congress. The
On Thursday, Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) introduced legislation to ban high-capacity magazines. Though gun control advocates are hoping to use last month’s Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre to pass more restrictive gun-control legislation, “odds are against the magazine legislation passing the
On Wednesday, President Obama signed the Defense Bill that had barred him from transferring GITMO inmates to their home countries or to the United States. Yet in so doing, he added a signing statement that basically says he claims the
Former White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) director Peter Orszag believes that even though the White House won the last round of negotiations regarding the fiscal cliff, they lost leverage during those negotiations for the more important debt-ceiling
Hi, everybody. Over the past year, as I traveled across the country campaigning for this office, I told you that if I was fortunate enough to be re-elected, I’d work to change a tax code that too often benefited the
The conservative revolt against John Boehner’s leadership failed to block his reelection as Speaker. The effort, however, came surprisingly close. A dozen of Boehner’s colleagues very publicly either voted for someone else for Speaker or chose not to vote. If
By STACEY PLAISANCEAssociated PressNEW ORLEANSFormer Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards will star on a new cable TV show with the woman he married after his release from federal prison on a corruption conviction. In a Facebook exchange Friday, Trina Scott Edwards
