Senate OKs Bill To Let Congress Review Iran Nuclear Deal on 98-1 Vote
a White House spokesperson called the bill “the kind of reasonable and acceptable compromise that the president would be willing to sign.”
Knives Are The New Guns In Lawmakers’ Second Amendment Expansion
Second Amendment advocates are pushing for a “right to slice” as repeals on knife and blade laws gains an edge across the nation.
New Front Opens In ‘Fast-Track’ Trade Fight
Senators on both sides of the aisle angle for currency protection as an amendment to Obama’s hardline free trade position on the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Colorado City Vows To Be Carbon Neutral, Defying Partisan Politics
Fort Collins, Colorado plans on becoming America’s first carbon neutral city.
Competing Sides Gear Up As Obama Pledges Action On Immigration
A band of Central Florida groups will support Obama’s push for executive action on immigration.
Obama Hosts Congress Leaders After Midterm Debacle
Can the meeting spark cooperation and less gridlock?
WATCH: Any Hope For Common Ground In Congress?
Joe Conason discusses bipartisanship in Congress on key issues on MSNBC’s ‘The Reid Report.’
Lawmakers Join To Honor MLK Jr., But Are Split Over Voting Rights Bill
By Rebecca Bratek, Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — Members of Congress joined in a rare moment of unity Tuesday on Capitol Hill. Leaders linked hands and gently swayed together to the tune of “We Shall Overcome” during the Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony. The ceremony, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, […]
Former U.S. Climate Chiefs Urge Political Unity
Washington (AFP) – Four former heads of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency who served under Republican presidents urged lawmakers Wednesday to stop bickering over whether climate change is real and start finding solutions. Global warming is an increasingly polarizing issue in American politics, with most Republicans questioning the science behind it and most Democrats calling […]
Obama Health Nominee Wins Bipartisan Support
Noam N. Levey, Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s pick to assume oversight of his signature health law received added bipartisan support Wednesday as more Republicans joined Democrats backing her nomination for secretary of health and human services. The growing support all but guarantees that Sylvia Mathews Burwell will be confirmed easily by the […]
Senate Advances Unemployment Benefits Bill, But House GOP Balks
By Lisa Mascaro, Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — A bipartisan agreement to restore unemployment insurance benefits for more than 2.2 million jobless Americans cleared a key Senate hurdle Thursday, but faces continued opposition from Republicans in the House, making final passage uncertain. House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-OH), has called the Senate plan — which overcame […]
Senate Passes Huge Spending Bill, Sends It To Obama
Washington (AFP) – Marking a truce after years of fiscal feuding in Washington, Congress passed a $1.1 trillion spending package Thursday that effectively ended the threat of an election-year government shutdown. The Senate voted 72 to 26 to approve the massive bill, in a show of bipartisanship after the House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly Wednesday […]
Playing Washington’s Inside Game
And then there were 12. When the 435 House members and 100 senators failed in July to agree on a long-term deficit reduction plan, congressional leaders did what they often do when they don’t know what to do: They appointed a committee. But don’t sneer, for this is — cue the trumpets — a supercommittee! […]
Obama Praises ‘Gang of Six’ Debt Deal
WASHINGTON (AP) — Declaring “11th hour” urgency” to raise the government’s borrowing limit, President Barack Obama on Tuesday hailed a plan by “Gang of Six” senators from both parties to reduce federal deficits as the kind of balanced approach that could break the economy-threatening deadlock. He said it was time for Congress to rally around […]
Conservative Legal Star Upholds Healthcare Law
A George W. Bush-appointee and up-and-coming conservative jurist joined a Democrat to uphold the constitutionality of the healthcare law and its individual mandate to purchase health insurance today, giving the Obama administration its first bipartisan legal victory on the issue. “We find that the minimum coverage provision is a valid exercise of legislative power by […]
Bipartisan Group of Congressmen Sue Obama Over Libya Incursion
The Obama administration’s intervention in Libya to aid rebels seeking to oust strongman Muammar Gaddafi has, since its inception, had critics on the anti-war Democratic left, but also on the right, where some GOP lawmakers are skeptical of what they say is a violation of the War Powers Resolution, the 1973 law intended in the […]