Senate Republicans mounted a surprisingly tough attack to open Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation hearing Monday, with Sen. Jeff Sessions calling her belief in the importance of a judge’s personal background “shocking and offensive to me.”
“I will not vote for—no senator should vote for—an individual nominated by any president who believes it is acceptable [...]
The expected announcement Tuesday by Florida Gov. Charlie Crist that he’s running for the Senate would seem to be a rare bit of good news for beleaguered Republicans.
But while Crist is a brand-name recruit with sky-high approval ratings and bipartisan appeal, his path to keeping the seat of retiring Sen. Mel Martinez in GOP hands [...]
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As Republicans try to hit the right message in a bid to re-engage the American public, they’re also on the hunt for the right messengers.
The GOP, which launched a new campaign over the weekend to market Republican ideas to voters, is placing a high priority on recruitment — part [...]
President Barack Obama will offer more specifics on Thursday about his proposed $3.55 trillion budget.
In an outline of the spending proposals released in February, Obama laid out broad goals such as overhauling the health care system, fighting climate change and changing the tax code to shift more taxes toward the wealthy.
Republicans criticized it as a [...]
Republicans have lit a fire under the Democrats regarding the issue of what will be done with Guantanamo’s prisoners. They have turned up the heat so much that the Democrats will likely drop the verbiage to authorize the use of war funds to relocate the inmates from the pending $83.4 billion war funding bill. Senate [...]
President Obama said his prime-time press conference on Day 100 of his presidency was intended as a “look forward to … all of the hundreds of days to follow,” but it turned into more of a look back in anger, complete with finger-pointing.
Throughout his hourlong session in the White House East Room on Wednesday, the [...]
