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Budget fight offers crash course on Congress

WASHINGTON – If majorities in both the House and Senate would vote to reopen the government with no strings attached, or vote to repeal the new health care law’s sales tax on heart pacemaker...

DATE: Oct 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Cruz vows to speak till he can’t against Obamacare

WASHINGTON – Tea party conservative Sen. Ted Cruz on Tuesday vowed to speak in opposition to President Barack Obama’s health care law until he’s “no longer able to stand,” even though fellow...

DATE: Sep 24, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Senate control hinges on fate of Southern Dems

WASHINGTON – Republicans are counting on some Southern comfort to win Senate control next year. The fate of Democratic incumbents in GOP-trending Arkansas, Louisiana and North Car...

DATE: Aug 8, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

First charges filed in Benghazi attack, sources say

WASHINGTON – The Justice Department has filed the first criminal charges in the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, two U.S. officials said Tuesday. T...

DATE: Aug 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

House backs NSA data gathering

Measure to stop practice narrowly rejected 217-205

DATE: Jul 24, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Top military leader outlines costs, risks on Syria

WASHINGTON – Establishing a no-fly zone to protect Syrian rebels would require hundreds of U.S. aircraft at a cost as much as $1 billion per month and no assurance that it would change the m...

DATE: Jul 22, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Immigration, student loans top congressional plans

WASHINGTON – Congress returned Monday to potentially incendiary fights over nominations, unresolved disputes over student loans and the farm bill, and the uncertainty of whether lawmakers ha...

DATE: Jul 8, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Senate Dems Obama’s hardest Guantanamo sell

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama’s hardest sell in his renewed push to close the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, may be members of his own party – moderate Senate Democrats...

DATE: Jul 5, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

GOP leader warns of attacks on free speech

WASHINGTON – The Senate Republican leader, who last year accused the Obama administration of Nixon-style dirty tricks, said Friday the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative gr...

DATE: Jun 21, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

McCain: Syrian rebels need heavy weapons

WASHINGTON – Sen. John McCain says Syrian rebels battling the forces of President Bashar Assad need ammunition and heavy weapons to counter the regime’s tanks and aircraft. McCain...

DATE: May 31, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

House chairman subpoenas documents on Benghazi

WASHINGTON – The chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee issued subpoenas on Tuesday for State Department documents related to the widely debunked talking points abou...

DATE: May 28, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Pentagon wants $450M for Guantanamo prison

WASHINGTON – The Pentagon is asking Congress for more than $450 million for maintaining and upgrading the Guantanamo Bay prison that President Barack Obama wants to close. New det...

DATE: May 20, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World