Obama Presses GOP On Contentious Confirmation
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama isn't backing down from demanding that Republicans confirm his pick to head a new consumer watchdog office, ...
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama isn't backing down from demanding that Republicans confirm his pick to head a new consumer watchdog office, ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Marcus Baram | Posted 07.10.2011
NEW YORK -- Monday night, Senate Republicans blocked one of the Obama administration's key nominees, ending a long and frustrating wait by James Cole ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.25.2011
UPDATE: The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted 9 to 0 on Tuesday morning in favor of Lew's nomination and referred him ...
AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama, treading carefully in the explosive arena of abortion and the Supreme Court, said Wednesday he will choose ...
Posted 05.25.2011
The White House pushed back on speculation that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton might be in the running to fill retiring Justice John Paul S...
AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Two experienced federal judges and the Obama administration's top Supreme Court lawyer are widely considered the leading candidates...
Aaron Zelinsky | Posted 05.25.2011
Senate Democrats are fighting for their electoral lives against the filibuster, and Harry Reid is folding the few cards left in his hand.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011
Senate Republicans made a persuasive case for abolishing or reforming the filibuster on Tuesday night when they blocked a routine nomination to the Na...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
In a move that will further irritate his Democratic critics, Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) announced on Monday evening that he would not just oppose but al...
Marlen Suyapa Bodden | Posted 05.25.2011
In all the hoopla over Citizens United, few noticed that in the case Wood v. Allen Justice Sotomayor delivered the majority decision denying relief to the petitioner, a death row prisoner in Alabama.
McClatchy Newspapers | Margaret Talev | Posted 05.25.2011
An attempt to blow up a trans-Atlantic flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day would be all-consuming for the administrator of the Transport...
Wall Street Journal | Jonathan Weisman | Posted 05.25.2011
For much of 2005, a battered Democratic Party sought to regain its footing by doing battle with President George W. Bush over his attempt to carve pri...
Sheila Herrling | Posted 05.25.2011
An arduous vetting process coupled with diminished authority is a virtual perfect storm for leaving the post vacant and the elevation of development and reform of foreign aid stalled.
The Washington Independant | Posted 05.25.2011
On Monday, nearly four months after President Obama nominated Harold Koh to become legal adviser to the State Department, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) fil...
The Washington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
Robert M. Groves will have to wait a little longer to take the reins at the U.S. Census Bureau: Senate Republicans have placed a hold on his nominatio...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs stressed on Monday that while the president was not taking age into consideration when choosing his Supreme Court n...
CBN | Posted 05.25.2011
Maybe the Obama administration should have nominated George Hamilton instead of David F. Hamilton. The hollywood actor may have an easier time at conf...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
Sen. Hillary Clinton's ascension to the post of Secretary of State has never really been in doubt, even after Sen. John Cornyn put a hold on a confirm...
Politico | Posted 05.25.2011
In 1961, Robert F. Kennedy predicted that the country could elect a black president in the next 40 years. That's how fast race relations were changing...
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 05.25.2011
Expect to hear a lot about Charlie Crist, Katherine Sebellius, Jim Webb, Bobby Jindal, Chuck Hagel, Joe Biden, Wes Clark, Tim Kaine, and, thanks to precedent, Jim Johnson -- but for now this is what we noticed from last night's coverage, in no particular order.
AP | TOM RAUM and NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 05.25.2011
***Scroll Down For Video Excerpts And Full Speech*** ST. PAUL, Minn. — Before a crowd of cheering thousands, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois laid...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
There is a consensus developing around Washington that Barack Obama's presidential campaign is hoping to herd a dozen or so superdelegates into its ca...
AFP | Posted 05.25.2011
Warren Buffett, the world's richest man, is backing Barak Obama for US president and thinks current US economic policy will push the dollar lower agai...
Politico | Carrie Budoff Brown | Posted 05.25.2011
Concerned about appearing presumptuous or antagonistic towards Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama will not declare victory in the Democratic nominat...
NY Times | Jim Rutenberg | Posted 05.25.2011
The contest with Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton not quite over and the one with Senator John McCain not quite under way, Senator Barack Obama is float...
AP | STEVE PEOPLES | Posted 02.09.2012