WASHINGTON -- Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Friday that invoking the Constitution's 14th Amendment, which states that federal debts "shall not be q...
WASHINGTON -- Medical marijuana advocates are pushing back against a new Justice Department threat to raid and prosecute medical pot shops even in sta...
WASHINGTON -- During a Twitter town hall Wednesday, President Obama was asked whether he would consider invoking the 14th Amendment to pay government ...
WASHINGTON -- Senate Republicans are pushing a resolution affirming the constitutionality of the congressional debt ceiling, hoping to block Democrats...
WASHINGTON -- Democrats have targeted pharmaceutical profits as a means of raising revenue as part of the debt ceiling deal, Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-...
WASHINGTON -- House Speaker John Boehner is rejecting President Obama's offer to make historic cuts to the federal government and the social safety ne...
WASHINGTON -- Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) floated a novel way out of default Tuesday, suggesting that Congress give up its power to...
Senate Republicans are ready to consider a nomination to the consumer bureau just as soon as it's abolished. Congress, unhappy with the government str...
WASHINGTON -- More than half the Senate was convened early Tuesday morning by Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) for a briefing on a deficit-reduction plan bein...
The Gang of Six, led by an anarchist comedian from Oklahoma, was applauded by the White House for throwing a pie in the face of the elderly. Bill Clin...
Allen West is not going to apologize for lying about apologizing to Debbie Wasserman Schultz, or is he? Unable to find anything more popular than Soci...
President Obama's goal of giving the GOP everything it wants continues to be thwarted by the GOP. Senate Democrats are taking cues from Nancy Pelosi, ...
Prospects for success in Afghanistan made an abrupt turn for the better this evening, as the commander in chief certified the military's fierceness. A...
WASHINGTON -- Debt ceiling negotiators think they've hit on a solution to address the debt ceiling impasse and the public's unwillingness to let go of...
WASHINGTON -- A powerful coalition that includes Tea Party members of Congress rejected a debt ceiling offer from House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) ...
WASHINGTON - The Senate Democratic plan to raise the debt ceiling would slash spending cuts far deeper than House Speaker John Boehner's proposal, acc...
WASHINGTON -- In order to shore up GOP support for a deal to raise the debt ceiling, Senate Democrats are exploring ways of giving the proposed "super...
