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SF Gate
| 4 months ago
Chamber of Commerce said Thursday that the "door to the American dream must always remain open" as he announced a broad coalition of business, labor, faith organizations, law enforcement and ethnic groups intent on overhauling the nation's...
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The Hill
| 4 months ago
I think he and Vice President Biden have a good working relationship, and it appears to be one of the few good working relationships that the administration has with members of Congress on the Republican side of the aisle, said former Sen. Judd...
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Aquarian
| 4 months ago
Not far from Reid, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell looked down at the floor and smirked. Many in the crowded hall believed the speaker's derision was meant only for Reid, a mortal enemy of House Republicans and the poster boy for the type of...
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Politico
| 4 months ago
President Barack Obama promised immigration reform leaders that their cause would top his second-term agenda, making January their month. But immigration advocates are beginning to worry that their fight could slip behind a cause that wasn't even an...
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National Public Radio
| 4 months ago
With immigration expected to be a top issue in the new Congress, lawmakers in both parties continue to call for a bipartisan approach while also preparing for battle. The messaging from many House Democrats and Republicans about the chances of...
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The Guardian
| 4 months ago
the lights stayed on as Congress laboured to reach a compromise on the fiscal cliff as 2012 ended. Photograph: J David Ake/AP If the voting had been strictly along partisan lines, we'd expect the best fit line to be straight up and down.
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Money Morning
| 4 months ago
Washington's rushed fiscal cliff deal failed to resolve half of the issue at hand: what to do about the $1.2 trillion in automatic spending cuts . The short-term deal struck on New Year's Day delayed the cuts for a couple months. Talks are set to...
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The New York Times
| 4 months ago
Pelosi said about the debt-limit increase during an interview in which she looked ahead to the issues facing the 113th Congress. She urged the president to bring everyone to a place where we can say we are going to remove all doubt that the full...
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The Washington Times
| 4 months ago
Despite outward statements of widespread support from his caucus after his re-election Thursday, Rep. John A. Boehner 's speakership was hanging by a thread, within three votes of mandating a second ballot, largely because he allowed the fiscal cliff...
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Item of Millbum and Short List
| 4 months ago
the man in the middle Monday January 7, 2013, 5:22 PM Doyle McManus writes for the Los Angeles Times...In practice, he's caught between a cliff and a ceiling as the uneasy chairman of an unhappy and fractious caucus. The fiscal cliff melodrama wasn't...
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National Public Radio
| 4 months ago
As he finally got the votes to put him over the top and his re-election as Speaker of the House became official, one had to wonder what was going on in John Boehner's mind. If Boehner has had a rough two years in trying to keep his fellow Republicans...
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Kansas City Star
| 4 months ago
Every election year, they become the popular ones, the celebrities with the power to hire or fire politicians...Why, they wonder, did they bother to cast ballots at all?It's always a dramatic fall for the ideological center of the country,...
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The New York Times
| 4 months ago
But when the vice-presidential hopes of Representative Paul D. Ryan were dashed this Election Day, he returned to the House of Representatives and last week helped pass a bipartisan tax deal sought by Mr. Obama. Mr. Ryan's vote in support of the plan,...
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution
| 4 months ago
After two years of working toward a bipartisan budget deal, the Senate's Gang of Eight was mostly sidelined as leaders negotiated a last-minute deal last week that put off fiscal reckoning for two months. The gang, a self-appointed group led by...
