Joe Biden Steps Into Debt Ceiling Void As Outlines Of Deal Materialize
WASHINGTON -- Negotiations over raising the nation’s debt ceiling will hit a heightened, more critical phase on Thursday when a bipartisan, bicamera...
WASHINGTON -- Negotiations over raising the nation’s debt ceiling will hit a heightened, more critical phase on Thursday when a bipartisan, bicamera...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.21.2011
WASHINGTON -- There is increasing concern among Democratic officials both on and off the Hill that Republicans will draw out negotiations over raising...
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011
Obama's speech signaled that he's over his obsession with chasing the nonexistent pipe dream of bipartisanship from Republicans. He defined what his party stands for and why their values are superior to Republicans'.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
The White House's top point person on health care reform expressed confidence on Sunday that Democrats would muster the votes to pass legislation, imp...
Mitchell Bard | Posted 05.25.2011
Looking back on 2009, a narrative seems to have emerged that the Democrats failed and would pay the price in the 2010 midterm elections. But where is the discussion of how the Republicans have behaved in the last year?
Dylan Loewe | Posted 05.25.2011
The best thing that can happen to the Democrats for the long-term in 2010 is to lose just enough seats that a) it won't impact their majority, but that b) the Republicans will think they won big.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
Republicans and some Democrats are grumbling over the decision by Democratic leadership to skip a formal conference committee in their efforts to pass...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
***SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO*** Bill Clinton predicted on Sunday that Democrats in Congress would avoid the political bloodbath during the 2010 elections...
Mitchell Bard | Posted 05.25.2011
If the Democrats in Congress don't find a way to become co-advocates with the president on these important issues, their future political problems will be the least of it.
Mitchell Bard | Posted 05.25.2011
You would think that winning the White House and overwhelming majorities in both houses of Congress would instill some backbone into Democrats on Capitol Hill. You would, of course, be wrong.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
As the threat of Democrats controlling both houses of Congress and the White House creeps its way into nearly every GOP attack, some leaders on the Hi...
AP | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — A rush of Republican retirements has positioned Democrats to pick up 20 or more seats in the House and transform what might otherwi...
TPM Media | Posted 05.25.2011
Now this is curious. In the latest Gallup poll, more Republicans approve of the job Congress is doing than there are Democrats who approve. According ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.04.2011