Republicans go on attack _ against others in GOP
By DAVID ESPO FILE – In this July 15, 2013, file photo Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., is surrounded by reporters as he heads to the Old Senate Chamber for a…
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Senate blocks Obama picks for judge, housing posts
By ALAN FRAM FILE – In this May 1, 2013, file photo, President Barack Obama’s nominee for the Federal Housing Finance Authority director Rep. Mel Watt, D-N.C., waves during the…
Iraqi PM: US aid needed to battle al-Qaida
By LARA JAKES Iraq’s Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, center, walks with the House Foreign Affairs Committee ranking Democrat Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., right, and the committee’s chairman Rep. Ed Royce,…
DURBIN REMOVES POST AFTER WHITE HO– USE MISCUE
By DON BABWIN FILE – This Sept. 4, 2013 file photo shows Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., the Senate assistant majority leader, arriving for a top-secret briefing for senators with Secretary…
ANALYSIS: OBAMA’S BUDGET WIN HAS STRINGS ATTACHED
By JULIE PACE President Barack Obama speaks in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington on Thursday, Oct. 17, 2013. Lawmakers Wednesday voted to avoid a financial…
BOEHNER’S JAM: CAUCUS LOVES BUT WON’T FOLLOW HIM
By CHARLES BABINGTON Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, walks to the chamber for the vote on a Senate-passed bill that would avert a threatened Treasury default and reopen…
FOOL’S ERRAND OR HEROIC STAND? GOP ON CRUZ, LEE
By DONNA CASSATA Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks to reporters waiting outside a closed-door meeting of Senate Republicans as news emerged that leaders reached a last-minute agreement to avert a…
HO– USE HARD-LINERS STAND UNITED IN BUDGET SHOWDOWN
By DONNA CASSATA FILE – In this Oct. 29, 2012 file photo, then-Republican House candidate, now, Rep. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., speaks in Claremore, Okla. Hard-line House conservatives are demanding concessions…