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Lawmakers float new plan on drugs in horse racing
Using the 2013 Kentucky Derby to gain a little attention, a group of lawmakers has unveiled plans in Congress to "end doping in horseracing and kick cheaters out of the sport." It's not the first effort to take on the "Sport of Kings" by Sen. Tom Udall (D-NM), Rep. Ed ...
FBI posts photo of three from Benghazi
As the political battle over the deaths of four Americans last year in Benghazi, Libya was heating up again in Washington, D.C., the FBI on Wednesday released pictures of three men who were at the U.S. compound that was attacked on September 11, 2012, looking for clues on those responsible ...
Obama Administration rolls out new health insurance forms
The Obama Administration unveiled new draft forms Tuesday for people to apply for insurance coverage under the Obama health law, releasing signup applications which are much shorter and less complex than an earlier version that drew criticism from backers and critics alike of the health reform law. "Consumers will have ...
U.S. Treasury to pay down $35 billion in debt
For the first time since 2007, the Treasury Department announced on Monday that the federal government will be able to pay down debt in a quarter, as new figures show Uncle Sam should come out $35 billion ahead between April-June, turning around what had been an expected need to borrow ...
The sequester isn't going away
After Democrats held the edge on the fiscal cliff deal back in January, many on Capitol Hill seemed to expect that Republicans would quickly fold when budget cuts from the sequester started hitting home and hitting the headlines. But that certainly didn't happen in the recent battle over furloughs of ...
Congress acts to stop air traffic controller furloughs
In the first big legislative battle over $85 billion in automatic budget cuts from the sequester, the Senate on Thursday night approved a plan to stop furloughs of air traffic controllers, as lawmakers in both parties joined to make sure air travelers weren't slowed by long delays in the skies. ...
Democrats join calls to end FAA furloughs
As more commercial airline flights were delayed on Wednesday, members of both parties in the Congress urged an end to the furloughs of air traffic controllers, as Senate Democrats and the Obama Administration indicated support for some kind of fix at the FAA. "If Congress wants to address specifically the ...
The sequester fight returns in the skies
Desepite all the warnings about hundreds of thousands of lost jobs and red flags galore from the Obama Administration about the $85 billion in across-the-board cuts, Life With the Sequester went along fairly quietly until this week, as furloughs for air traffic controllers have brought the fight over automatic budget ...
Collision course on FAA sequester cuts
Republicans and Democrats traded charges on Monday over sequester cuts to air traffic controllers at the FAA, as after weeks of political skirmishes over automatic budget cuts, this fight over air travel threatened to quickly develop into a full blown political storm. "Why is President Obama unnecessarily delaying your flight?" ...
Criminal Complaint released in Boston Marathon bombings
Federal officials on Monday filed the first formal charges against the surviving Boston Marthon bombing suspect, charging 19 year old Dzhokar Tsarnaev with conspiring to use weapon of mass destruction and malicious destruction of property resulting death. The thirteen page document also includes a number of details that indicate what ...
Questions after the Boston Marathon bombings
The political aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings is just beginning, as both parties wait to see how it may impact a number of different issues, ranging from the conduct of anti-terrorism work by the U.S. Government to immigration, gun laws and more. In the wake of terrorist attacks, it ...
Obama praises capture of Boston bombing suspect
Vowing to find the answers for why two brothers bombed the Boston Marathon and terrorized residents of that city, President Obama had high praise for the work of police in Boston and a variety of law enforcement agencies, as officials tried to make sense of what he described as a ...
Democrats yank gun bill off Senate floor
A day after the U.S. Senate rejected a series of gun control plans backed by President Obama, Democratic leaders decided to put that work on hold and move on to other legislation, unable to muster enough votes to push gun plans past Republican opposition. "This debate is not over," said ...
A real gun on the U.S. Senate floor
As the Senate on Wednesday rejected a series of gun control plans by President Obama, the votes took place 163 years to the day that a real gun was pulled out during a debate related to slavery, throwing the floor of the Senate into disarray and making headlines around the ...
Gun control efforts stymied in U.S. Senate
While Congressional Democrats talked Wednesday about how they would keep trying to push gun control legislation through the U.S. Congress, work on a Senate gun bill could soon be abandoned, after the Senate rejected a series of plans from President Obama to combat gun violence. "This was a pretty shameful ...
Senators introduce immigration reform bill
After months of negotiation, a bipartisan group of eight Senators has formally introduced immigration reform legislation in the Senate, titled the "Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act." It weighs in at 844 pages. The full text of the bill was posted early this morning by the office of Sen. ...
Senate sets showdown votes on gun bill
With the future of a Democratic gun control bill in doubt, Senate leaders set votes for Wednesday afternoon on a series of high profile gun restrictions, as backers struggled to salvage a bipartisan plan designed to expand background checks on gun sales over the internet and at gun shows. "It’s ...
Looking for clues on Boston bombings
Official Washington, D.C. had no immediate answers on Tuesday for who or what group might have been behind the bombings at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, as lawmakers refused to speculate on those responsible, while President Obama again vowed to track down the culprits. "This was a heinous ...
President Obama's statement on Boston bombings
President Obama spoke to the nation on the bombings at the Boston Marathon, vowing that the United States would find those responsible - "We will find out who did this and we will hold them accountable." Here is the full text of the President's statement as provided by the White ...
Text of Manchin-Toomey background checks amendment
As the U.S. Senate gets ready for debate on a gun control bill from Democrats, the first amendment up for discussion will be a deal on expanded gun sales background checks from Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA). The Senate last Thursday voted 68-31 to force ...
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