House OKs rescue for homeowners, Freddie, Fannie
WASHINGTON — Rescue legislation sailed through the House on Wednesday aimed at helping 400,000 strapped homeowners avoid foreclosure and prevent...
WASHINGTON — Rescue legislation sailed through the House on Wednesday aimed at helping 400,000 strapped homeowners avoid foreclosure and prevent...
Chris Weigant | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics
For only the fourth (or fifth, depending on how you count) time in his presidency, George W. Bush had a veto overridden by both houses of Congress thi...
Reuters | Deborah Zabarenko | Posted 06.02.2008 | Green
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Even before debate began on Monday on the first comprehensive climate change bill to reach the U.S. Senate floor, the White Hou...
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.30.2008 | Politics
As the primary election season sinks slowly in the West (South Dakota and Montana, to be exact), we turn our eyes (finally!) to the general election c...
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.23.2008 | Politics
President George W. Bush, asked in a press conference why Republicans in the House and Senate are increasingly defying him, proven by the fact that do...
Rep. Joe Baca | Posted 05.21.2008 | Politics
Today's vote by Congress to override Bush's Farm Bill veto was a loud message to the president, in support of all Americans who need the support the bill provides.
Chris Weigant | Posted 04.23.2008 | Politics
For an election-year issue, this is hard to beat. Which is obviously why two-thirds of House Republicans jumped ship from Bush's position.
David Roberts | Posted 03.21.2008 | Politics
Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius has vetoed a Senate Bill and green-lit two new coal plants -- 11 million tons of CO2.
Marc Cooper | Posted 03.09.2008 | Home
With President Bush's veto this weekend of a bill to outlaw the CIA's use of waterboarding, torture now becomes officially codified U.S. policy. But you'd never know it from the reading the Times.
Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 02.07.2008 | Home
This president's concept of the veto is not unlike Reagan's notion of detente, i.e. the threat is more potent than the thing itself.
Associated Press | Jesse Holland | Posted 01.16.2008 | Politics
The White House on Tuesday threatened to veto a mine safety bill, saying the new regulations proposed by Democrats would interfere with legislation Pr...
Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 01.11.2008 | Politics
Vital new programs for returning troops are going to be put on hold while Congress and the president play games.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.20.2007 | Politics
As this year's congressional session closes out, obstructionism by the Republican minority reached a fever pitch and effectively stymied much of the D...
Chris Weigant | Posted 12.19.2007 | Politics
The news just broke that Dems have completely and utterly caved on the State Children's Health Insurance Program bill.
Chris Weigant | Posted 12.05.2007 | Politics
President Bush has been proven wrong in some big and spectacular ways this week. But while he continues to channel his foreign policy advice from Plu...
Chris Weigant | Posted 11.09.2007 | Politics
It's been a week of ups and downs for Democrats. Mostly downs. While congressional Democrats still have yet to pass a single budget bill, they did fi...
AP | CHARLES BABINGTON | Posted 11.08.2007 | Politics
President Bush suffered the first veto override of his seven-year-old presidency Thursday as the Senate enacted a $23 billion water resources bill de...
AP | CHARLES BABINGTON | Posted 11.07.2007 | Politics
Congressional negotiators said Tuesday they were nearing agreement on a revised children's health bill that they believed would withstand President Bu...
Dan Brown | Posted 11.02.2007 | Politics
The Bush Administration has proposed $379 million in funding cuts for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), which provides subsidize...
Chris Weigant | Posted 10.26.2007 | Politics
It's been a busy week in Washington, providing lots and lots of fodder for this week's Friday Talking Points column. After being named last week's Mos...
Washington Post | Jonathan Weisman | Posted 10.25.2007 | Politics
Just one week after failing to override President Bush's veto, House Democrats will put a new version of their $35 billion expansion of the State Chil...
Donnie Fowler | Posted 10.24.2007 | Politics
In less than a year, the Democratic Congress has accomplished quite a bit thanks largely to the leadership of Pelosi and Reid. These successes would have certainly not happened without them.
Chris Weigant | Posted 10.19.2007 | Politics
Welcome to the sixth installment of the weekly suggestions for Democrats who are likely to appear on this weekend's chat shows. Previous installments...
Art Levine | Posted 10.16.2007 | Home
The primary talking points from the GOP on the SCHIP bill scheduled for a veto override vote this week are that many well-to-do middle-cla...
Before the largest crowd of his campaign, Democratic presidential contender Barack...
John McCain's famously cozy relationship with the press is getting a bit testy. Taking questions in...
**UPDATE 7/25** ThinkProgress now reports that the bar...
There is one more John McCain gaffe that...
As we have observed throughout the last several years,...
In a flagrant political act, the State Department has...
Major news organizations are drawing...
"Extra" has learned that Heather Mills' publicist, Michele Elyzabeth, has...
Will the mainstream media cover the John Edwards love child scandal put out there by the...
I have a wait problem. I hate to wait. When...
WASHINGTON — Congress approved mortgage relief for 400,000...
Ashcroft Claims Waterboarding...
AP | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS | Posted 07.23.2008 | Business