WASHINGTON — Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) accused the Republican Party of acting in bad faith in economic negotiations on Sunday, saying the GOP was allowing the economy to “remain stagnant” in order to score political points. “We need Republicans and Democrats to work together,” said Wasserman Schultz on CNN’s [...]
WASHINGTON — House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) backed away from calling the Occupy Wall Street protesters “mobs” on Sunday, but he doubled-down on going after the political leaders who have condoned the movement. At the conservative Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C., last week, Cantor said he was “increasingly concerned about the growing mobs [...]
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of senators hammered China as a nation of “cheaters” Wednesday and laid down a challenge to House Speaker John Boehner and President Obama to get tougher on the Asian powerhouse. A day after the Senate mustered a rare bipartisan vote to pass a bill targeting Chinese currency manipulation, the measure’s [...]
WASHINGTON — Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.) is a proud father of a newborn baby, making him the first openly gay parent in the U.S. Congress. On Friday, Polis and his partner, Marlon Reis, sent out an announcement about the arrival of their son, Caspian Julius, who is 8 pounds, 12 ounces. “Baby and parents are [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House and congressional Republicans just can’t agree on the best prescription for the economy, with President Barack Obama demanding passage of his $447 billion jobs bill and the GOP pushing to cut government red tape. Both efforts, the focus of competing radio and Internet addresses Saturday, face little chance of [...]
WASHINGTON — Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.) is a proud father of a newborn baby, making him the first openly gay parent in the U.S. Congress. On Friday, Polis and his partner, Marlon Reis, sent out an announcement about the arrival of their son, Caspian Julius, who is 8 pounds, 12 ounces. “Baby and parents are [...]
WASHINGTON — You can’t swing a dead cat video in Washington lately without hitting a lobbyist, consultant, attorney or adviser on retainer to Google or one of its tech rivals. Google, whose top executives have long been a bottomless cup of campaign coffee for Democrats, is finally entering its bipartisan phase, theatrically hiring Republican operatives [...]
CLEVELAND — On a recent Wednesday afternoon in the auditorium of Eastern Technical High School, where 1,000 people had come to hear him speak, Arne Duncan was stumped. “What will the plan be in three years when the Race to the Top funding runs out?” Deontae Gresham, a high school senior, asked the usually well-prepared [...]
Standing among governors, teachers, superintendents and students in the White House’s East Room Friday morning, President Barack Obama asserted his administration’s reforms to the federal No Child Left Behind act would minimize the need for educators to “teach to the test.” “Is John Becker here?” Obama asked, referring to a fourth-grade charter-school teacher. “John teaches [...]
WASHINGTON — The Democratic-led Senate Appropriations Committee has voted to provide $100 million to build high-speed rail lines, a small portion of what President Barack Obama has proposed for one of his economic priorities. The panel voted by voice Wednesday to include the money in a $110 billion transportation and housing bill for next year. [...]
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