White House Stresses Satisfaction With Progress Of Consumer Protection Reform
White House officials on Wednesday insisted that they are satisfied with congressional action on regulatory reform legislation and disputed a Huffingt...
White House officials on Wednesday insisted that they are satisfied with congressional action on regulatory reform legislation and disputed a Huffingt...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics
The White House on Tuesday suggested that President Obama would consider vetoing regulatory reform legislation if it did not include strong enough pro...
Jarrett Murphy | Posted 09.25.2009 | New York
This record makes it hard to believe that Bloomberg would sit on the sidelines and let the City Council lead the way on term limits, probably the most significant decision of his term.
Chris Weigant | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
Sadly, Obama's speech to school children has become mired in manufactured controversy from the right, with typical sky-is-falling rhetoric about the evil, evil man who occupies the Oval Office.
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.14.2009 | Media
The media is not completely responsible for the state of the debate over healthcare reform. The Democrats have done such a poor job of presenting their case that they really bear the lion's share of blame.
Lorelei Kelly | Posted 07.24.2009 | Politics
Anybody who has lived with an addict knows about denial. So it goes with Congress and defense spending. Case in point this week is the F-22, a gold-plated Cold War barnacle.
Jerry Zezima | Posted 02.28.2009 | Living
As for the kitchen, you might want to find out what's in your cabinets after you fill your Cabinet. Wives get miffed when their husbands don't know where things are.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jed Lewison | Posted 10.31.2008 | Politics
Just two days after again promising the nation that he would veto every single spending bill with earmarks to cross his desk, John McCain said on Sund...
AP | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS | Posted 07.31.2008 | Business
WASHINGTON — Rescue legislation sailed through the House on Wednesday aimed at helping 400,000 strapped homeowners avoid foreclosure and prevent...
Chris Weigant | Posted 07.26.2008 | 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 06.10.2008 | 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...
Marc Cooper | Posted 03.28.2008 | 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.
Associated Press | Jesse Holland | Posted 03.28.2008 | 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...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.28.2008 | 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...
AP | CHARLES BABINGTON | Posted 03.28.2008 | 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 03.28.2008 | Politics
Congressional negotiators said Tuesday they were nearing agreement on a revised children's health bill that they believed would withstand President Bu...
Washington Post | Jonathan Weisman | Posted 03.28.2008 | 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...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics