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Bob Corker

GOP Senator 'Satisfied' Despite Big Hearing

The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 05.08.2013 | Politics

Just before House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) began a potentially explosive hearing Wednesday on t...

U.S. Senator: U.S. Moving Closer To Arming Syria Rebels

AP | Posted 05.07.2013 | World

WASHINGTON — A Republican member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is predicting the U.S. will soon be "arming the rebels" seeking to ov...

GOP Senator Sinks Amazing Golf Shot, Cracks Social Security Quip

Reuters | Posted 05.07.2013 | Politics

(Updates with Chambliss quotes) By Roberta Rampton and Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON, May 6 (Reuters) - President Barack ...

Congress OKs Killing of Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime?

Michael Shank | Posted 05.06.2013 | Politics
Michael Shank

A handful of Democratic and Republican senators are considering a rewrite of 60 of the most consequential words to ever pass through Congress: The Authorization for Use of Military Force, which is enabling a system of eternal warfare.

Bipartisan Senators Join Obama Golf Round

AP | NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 05.07.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- So much for overshadowing your rivals, Mr. President. Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss didn't seem fazed by a rare congressional invitat...

Congress Eyes Changing Bush-Signed Law

Reuters | Posted 05.02.2013 | Politics

(Repeats with no change in text) * Some say law stretched beyond original intent * Questions about Obama drone policy fu...

Republican Wants To Overhaul Controversial Law On Presidential Power

AP | DONNA CASSATA | Posted 05.20.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON — The top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said Wednesday that Congress should overhaul the 2001 authorization fo...

Zach Carter

House And Senate Republicans Diverge On Tax Deal With Obama

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 03.17.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Sharp differences emerged on Sunday between House and Senate Republicans over the prospect for a budget deal with President Barack Obama...

Obama Recruits Republicans For Budget Talks

The New York Times | JACKIE CALMES and JONATHAN WEISMAN | Posted 06.03.2013 | Politics

With Republican leaders in Congress forswearing budget negotiations over new revenues, President Obama has begun reaching around them to Republican la...

Michael McAuliff

Sequester Battle Flummoxes Senate GOP

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 02.27.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Senate Republicans appeared flummoxed Tuesday by the impending sequestration budget cuts, unable to offer a consensus alternative and ar...

Ryan Grim

Top Republican's Bank Tax Bill Would Punish Grand Bargain-Backing CEOs

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 01.29.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.) is considering legislation that would significantly increase taxes for the n...

Republican: Don't Expect Clinton 'Bombshells'

The Huffington Post | Gabrielle Dunkley | Posted 01.22.2013 | Politics

Tennessee Republican Sen. Bob Corker said Tuesday on Fox News' "America's Newsroom" that he does not anticipate any "bombshells" in Secretary of State...

GOP Senator Questions Hagel's 'Temperament'

Reuters | Posted 03.15.2013 | Politics

* Obama nominated Vietnam War veteran Hagel as defense chief * Conservatives have faulted Hagel on Israel, Iran * Senate...

Sabrina Siddiqui

Colin Powell: Chuck Hagel 'Superbly Qualified' To Be Secretary Of Defense

HuffingtonPost.com | Sabrina Siddiqui | Posted 01.14.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Former secretary of state Colin Powell strongly defended former Sen. Chuck Hagel's (R-Neb.) nomination as secretary of defense on Sunday...

Arthur Delaney

People On Unemployment Think Congress Is Just 'Playing Games'

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 12.29.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Congressman Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said on Thursday that Americans are paying unusually close attention to the fiscal cliff debate in Congr...

GOP Senators Praise John Kerry's 'World Of Knowledge'

AP | DONNA CASSATA | Posted 02.15.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON — Democratic Sen. John Kerry stands tall as President Barack Obama's good soldier. The Massachusetts lawmaker has flown to Afghanist...

Republicans Want To Move Beyond Tax Rate Fight

Reuters | Posted 02.08.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Conservatives have no choice but to give into White House demands on higher tax rates for the wealthy, if the fiscal d...

Jennifer Bendery

Bob Corker: Debt Ceiling Is Republicans' Leverage In Fiscal Talks

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 12.09.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) on Sunday doubled down on the idea that Republicans should use the debt ceiling as leverage in fiscal talks wi...

GOP Senator Eager To Act On Key Issues

AP | DONNA CASSATA | Posted 12.07.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Republican Sen. Bob Corker is spending a lot of time lately talking to Democrats. The freshman lawmaker from Tennessee unveiled his own...

The Serious People Are on the War Path

Dean Baker | Posted 02.02.2013 | Business
Dean Baker

At a time when tens of millions of people are still unemployed, underemployed or out of the labor force altogether as a result of the fallout created by the collapse of the housing bubble, in Washington it is serious to argue that our biggest problem is that custodians at the VA hospitals are getting paid too much.

Political Divide Over Susan Rice Widens

AP | MATTHEW LEE | Posted 02.01.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON — The partisan political divide over the potential nomination of U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice to be secretary of state intensified Sund...

Zach Carter

Obama's Opening Gambit On The Fiscal Cliff -- Time To Freak Out?

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 11.30.2012 | Politics

No. But there are several interesting elements, particularly among the combined $1.6 trillion in new tax revenue. Obama has spent most of the past ...

Ryan Grim

Bob Corker: Intelligence Officials 'Immediately Let Everybody Know' Benghazi Was Terrorism

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.14.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- A top Republican senator on a committee investigating the September attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, said Wednesday that...

WATCH: Republicans: We Were Wrong

The Huffington Post | The Political Mashups Team | Posted 11.13.2012 | Politics

Senators from deep red Oklahoma and Tennessee endorsing tax increases? Newt Gingrich admitting mistakes? Sean Hannity endorsing a path to citizenship ...

Democratic Tennessee Senate Candidate Defeated

Posted 11.06.2012 | Politics

Mark Clayton, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Tennessee, lost his bid, the AP projects. Republican incumbent Bob Corker is projected to w...