WASHINGTON -- One notable absence from last week's Republican Governors' Association meeting was that of Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons.
Gibbons' decision not to attend the annual confab was all the more noticeable because two of his potential challengers in next year's Republican primary election showed up. Both Brian Sandoval and Mike [...]
WASHINGTON -- Greetings, Early Liners. The ongoing story of Republican Sen. John Ensign’s affair with the wife of a former top aide resurfaces anew tonight when ABC airs a new interview with the woman’s husband, Doug Hampton, on “Nightline.”
Highlights of the interview have been making the rounds, including Hampton’s admission [...]
WASHINGTON -- You might want to reconsider your Saturday evening plans if you, like most of the Hill right now, are glued to the health care vote in the Senate.
Word is plans are underway for an 8 p.m. vote Saturday in the Senate -- which would meet some senators' demands' [...]
WASHINGTON -- Greetings, Early Liners. As the Senate is poised to take up health care reform, it kind of feels like everyone is waiting for the party to start if only the guest of honor – in this case, the bill – would arrive.
For three weeks the nonpartisan Congressional Budget [...]
WASHINGTON -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's latest TV campaign ad goes up today -- the fourth in a month -- touting the senator's clout and his belief that Nevada's hard times will turn around.
The tag line: "America's most powerful senator."
[...]WASHINGTON -- Leave it to Democratic Rep. Shelley Berkley to liven up a late-night health care hearing with tales of dating the doctor who would become her husband.
On the eve of last Saturday's marathon health care debate, the Las Vegas congresswoman told the House Rules Committee about how she was [...]
WASHINGTON -- Greetings, Early Liners. All eyes turn to the Senate this week after the House’s historic passage of health care reform legislation over the weekend, but actually, not much will be happening there unless you’re able to peer behind the closed doors of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s office.
Inside [...]
WASHINGTON -- When the vice president opened his home to the Ecumenical Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church this week, Nevada's Democratic Reps. Shelley Berkley and Dina Titus joined for dinner.
Vice President Joseph Biden hosted a Wednesday evening gathering in Washington for His All Holiness Bartholomew, the "green patriarch," [...]
WASHINGTON – Greetings, Early Liners and let the floor debate begin.
The House health care bill debate could begin this week as leaders hope to have the revised bill introduced by Tuesday, which tees up a 72-hour posting before a vote that Roll Call says could come as soon as Friday.
Both [...]
WASHINGTON -- Greetings, Early Liners. Today just might be the day so many have been waiting for, as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is expected to finish crafting the Senate's health care bill and send it over to the green shades for a price estimate.
Reid's is scheduled to meet the [...]
WASHINGTON -- Greetings, Early Liners. No sooner did Sen. Harry Reid launch TV ads in his 2010 re-election bid than a progressive group has announced it will begin running ads Wednesday pushing the majority leader to take a tougher stand on health care reform.
The TV ads from the Progressive [...]
WASHINGTON -- Democratic Rep. Dina Titus will do this week what most Nevada lawmakers ably avoided during the long hot summer of Tea Party protests: She will host an open town hall forum on health care on Monday.
The freshmen congresswoman had publicly promised her constituents in August that she would [...]
WASHINGTON -- Democratic Rep. Dina Titus continues to expand her reach on the Hill, having been appointed today as one of the conferees to negotiate the final version of a massive defense bill.
Titus joins several dozen colleagues from both sides of the aisle who will hash out the differences between [...]
WASHINGTON -- Greetings, Early Liners. Doctors decked out in white coats filled the Rose Garden this morning as President Barack Obama welcomed physicians from 50 states to the White House to discuss health care reform.
Among those invited to attend was Dr. Arezo Fathie, who practices internal medicine and pediatrics in [...]
WASHINGTON -- Former Republican state Sen. Joe Heck is “seriously considering” dropping out of the governor’s race to challenge Democratic Rep. Dina Titus for Southern Nevada’s congressional seat in Washington.
According to conservative activist Chuch Muth’s news service, Heck attended a meeting in Las Vegas on Monday called by fellow Republican [...]
WASHINGTON -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s efforts to secure a better deal for Nevada in the health care reform legislation, which we wrote about last week, is highlighted in today’s New York Times.
The paper notes that the 100 percent federal funding for Medicaid expansion that Reid wants [...]
WASHINGTON -- Greetings, Early Liners. The big political news in Nevada this week, if you have not yet heard, is that Republican John Guedry has dropped his bid to unseat Democratic Rep. Dina Titus in the Southern Nevada congressional district next year.
The Sun’s Jon Ralston had the scoop late Friday, [...]
WASHINGTON -- Investment banker John Chachas, one of the potential Republican challengers to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, got a look in the New York Times today.
The paper describes his underdog bid like this:
“So what does a 44-year-old investment banker do when he wants a new career challenge?
Try a [...]
WASHINGTON — Greetings, Early Liners. The capital is back to workday normalcy after a spirited weekend of Tea Party protesters, but the political landscape might be not quite the same.
We’ve officially entered the “You Lie” era of political discourse (lots of T-shirts saying so on Saturday). The rally on the [...]
WASHINGTON -- One of the funnier stories in Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s autobiography “The Good Fight” is the one he tells about first seeing his wife.
Reid the teenager was going by her house in Henderson when he spotted Landra, also a teen, washing the family car in the driveway.
“Wow, [...]
WASHINGTON -- If you couldn’t find Republican Sen. John Ensign in the crowd for the president’s joint address to Congress this week, you’re not alone.
Ensign missed the live event under the dome, opting instead to watch from home because, his spokeswoman said, he was fighting a cold.
Observers noticed the chamber [...]
WASHINGTON -- Today’s offerings from the capital press on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s 2010 re-election in Nevada:
Roll Call asks whether Republicans are ready to go all in on the Nevada race with a second-choice challenger.
“If they don’t have somebody, why would they make that investment if [...]
WASHINGTON -- Greetings, Early Liners. Welcome back to the fall congressional session here on the Hill where Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is headed to the White House this afternoon, the tourism promotion bill is tee-ed up for a do-over today in the Senate and Daniel Bogden’s nomination for U.S. [...]
WASHINGTON -- Republican Sen. John Ensign’s popularity at home continues to hover in the not-good zone since disclosing his affair, with just 28 percent of Nevadans approving of his job performance, according to a new poll out today from Daily Kos.
One of the more interesting findings, since Ensign admitted [...]
WASHINGTON -- More numbers on Democratic Sen. Harry Reid’s re-elect chances out today from Daily Kos show the majority leader losing in potential matchups with Republican challengers.
The Research 2000 poll shows Reid down against Danny Tarkanian, the UNLV basketball player turned businessman, 40-45. Reid also loses to Sue Lowden, [...]
WASHINGTON -- In case you haven’t heard, the events around the memorial and funeral services for Democratic Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts are on Twitter.
You can follow at www.twitter.com/kennedynews.
[...]WASHINGTON -- In case you haven’t heard, the events around the memorial and funeral services for Democratic Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts are on Twitter.
You can follow at www.twitter.com/kennedynews.
[...]WASHINGTON -- Here’s a note to all the national groups coming in to run ads for or against the health care debate: Learn how the locals pronounce Nevada.
A radio ad from the National Education Association running in support of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s work on health care reform butchers [...]
WASHINGTON -- Greetings, Early Liners. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s approval rating at home remains low, Sen. John Ensign’s is lower and Republican senatorial hopeful Danny Tarkanian is the sleeper candidate of the summer, according to polling results released over the weekend.
The latest numbers out of Nevada got a [...]
WASHINGTON -- The Wall Street Journal takes a quick look today at Sen. Harry Reid’s role as majority leader in the Senate, where his skills could help make or break health care reform.
"Mr. Reid has enjoyed some successes, pushing through bills on economic stimulus, children's health and tobacco regulation, among" [...]
WASHINGTON -- Democrats are running radio ads this week in Las Vegas, shoring up Rep. Dina Titus’ support for health care reform even as the freshman congresswoman opposes the main tax aspects of the proposal.
The ad from Organizing for America comes after Republicans ran ads against Titus last month over [...]
WASHINGTON -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid vowed today to press forward with a bipartisan health care bill, even as “loud, shrill voices” backed by Republicans are shouting down the effort at town hall meetings across the country.
“We are going to do, if there’s any way humanly possible, a bipartisan [...]
WASHINGTON -- Greetings, Early Liners. It’s almost the official dog days of summer here, with the House in recess and the Senate leaving later this week, but the debate over health care and the economy continues at a blistering pace during the off season.
Nevada’s lawmakers arrive home armed with [...]
WASHINGTON -Another staff member is leaving Republican Sen. John Ensign’s office, according to a columnist for the Las Vegas Sun.
Sun columnist Jon Ralston is reporting this afternoon that John Min, a regional representative for the senator’s office in Las Vegas, has told friends he is leaving to pursue a doctoral [...]
WASHINGTON — Greetings, Early Liners. The health care debate may be on an uneven path in Congress, but the political action on the airwaves is moving forward without pause.
The Republican National Committee has launched a new radio ad targeting Democratic Rep. Dina Titus over health care, [...]
WASHINGTON - Republican Sen. John Ensign issued the following statement Friday night in light of continued questions about his affair with a former campaign staffer, Cynthia Hamtpon, as well as the $96,000 payment Ensign's parents made to the woman, her husband, Doug' [...]
John Lopez, Sen. John Ensign's chief of staff, is leaving the senator's employ, as first reported by Sun columnist Jon Ralston.
Lopez is described by Republican insiders as a talented staffer, particularly adept at securing appropriations for Nevada.
Lopez is a long time aide [...]
WASHINGTON - Unable to get your mortgage lender on the phone?
Try putting the muscle of the Senate Majority Leader's office behind your call.
Sen. Harry Reid is putting five Nevada staffers on the housing beat, making them available to help constituents trying to avoid foreclosure.
The senator's staff will [...]
WASHINGTON -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid joined leaders of the Latter-day Saints Church today as they met with President Barack Obama at the White House.
Reid, a Mormon, met with church President Thomas Monson and Elder Dallin H. Oaks as they spoke with the president and presented Obama with five, [...]
WASHINGTON -- The Republican attack on health care reform comes to Nevada today with a new TV ad that calls the Democratic plan a “risky experiment,” even as polls show a majority of Americans back the effort.
Republicans hope to not only chip away at President Barack Obama’s support in [...]
WASHINGTON -- Rep. Dina Titus landed on the front page of The Hill newspaper this morning, featured among freshmen Democrats seeking action from party leaders on deficit reduction.
Taking a hard line on the budget could help Titus in her swing district, especially among independents who have grown restless over the [...]
WASHINGTON - More details are emerging today about the confrontation between Republican Sen. John Ensign and his peers from his Christian home on Capitol Hill over his affair.
Former Rep. Steve Largent, who was involved in the discussion, told the Tulsa World that he and other [...]
WASHINGTON — Despite the efforts by Sen. John Ensign’s parents to structure their $96,000 payment to the family of his mistress as a gift that would avoid taxes, they might want to have considered additional precautions, suggests the New York Times.
The [...]
WASHINGTON -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid introduced Al Franken today at the Capitol, both embracing the filibuster-proof potential the 60th Democratic-senator-to-be represents, and simultaneously tamping it down.
“Much has been made of the expectations of Al Franken,” Reid said. “I expect him to help deliver on the change this country [...]
WASHINGTON -- Greetings, Early Liners. Sen.-elect Al Franken is expected at the Capitol this afternoon for a photo-op with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid as the soon-to-be-sworn-in 60th Democratic senator -- or as he's known by some here, the one they’ve been waiting for to help break filibusters.
Or not. As [...]
WASHINGTON -- Democratic Rep. Dina Titus continues her campaign to change the mortgage equity requirements for homeowners wishing to refinance under Obama’s housing plan, seeing an opening in the Treasury Department’s full review of the program.
In a letter to Treasury Timothy Geithner today, Titus wrote that because many Las Vegas [...]
WASHINGTON -- Greetings, Early Liners. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will join Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid this morning in Las Vegas to announce solar energy initiatives on public lands in the West.
This is Salazar’s second visit to the state as Interior secretary. Reid and Salazar were colleagues in the Senate, [...]
WASHINGTON -- Conservative talk radio host Bill Manders wants to make it clear: He was the first to call for Republican Sen. John Ensign’s resignation.
Manders, at KOH-AM 780 in Reno, joins a few activists in Washington and Nevada who suggest the senator should step down after admitting an affair [...]
WASHINGTON -- The chairman of the Senate's Republican campaign committee expects to announce a challenger to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in "coming weeks."
This after Republican state Sen. Mark Amodei was seen making the rounds in Washington this week after having said recently he was interested in the job.
Coincidence? Who [...]
WASHINGTON -- Greetings, Early Liners, from the nation’s capital, where the slow grind of policy making is seriously underway as Congress presses forward on President Barack Obama’s top agenda item: health care.
With that in mind, be sure to check out today’s “By the Numbers” from the Sun’s Alex Richards [...]
WASHINGTON -- Look who’s Twittering now.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, an aficionado of the ever-brief quip, has joined those posting their thoughts in 140 characters or less.
Reid’s entrée into the Twittering class comes none too soon. At one point, he was the No. 1 lawmaker tweet lovers [...]
WASHINGTON — Democratic Rep. Shelley Berkley had face-time with the president today on health care reform, and she used her precious minutes at the White House to stress the importance of talking honestly about the high cost of end-of-life care.
Berkley was among Democrats from the House [...]
WASHINGTON -- Even though the Employee Free Choice Act in its current form seems doomed, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said today talks continue on a compromise bill.
Reid conceded that the legislation had stalled. The bill, which would make it easier for workers to organize unions, is widely supported [...]
WASHINGTON — Greetings, Early Liners. The ongoing assessment of the economic recovery act picks up where it left off, with the White House today on full-court press touting job creation efforts and congressional Republicans saying not enough is being done.
Vice President Joe Biden dipped into sports talk [...]
WASHINGTON -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid signaled today a renewed push in making comprehensive immigration reform a priority, suggesting the Democrats’ expanded majority will be brought to bear to advance an issue that Congress has been unable to resolve for years.
Immigration advocates have fanned out this week across the [...]
WASHINGTON -- Republican Sen. John Ensign had one message for those paying attention to his campaign-like swing today in Iowa:
“I’m not running for president,” Ensign told the Sun. “Let me say that in very clear terms.”
Ensign’s trip to Iowa has fueled much speculation of his 2012 presidential intentions, and [...]
WASHINGTON -- Greetings, Early Liners. Congress returns to work in Washington and the legislative session closes in Carson City after the weekend’s historic veto-fest – or make that veto-override fest.
Our colleague J.Patrick Coolican’s Sunday story examines vetopalooza in the context of a governor unlike any other in the state’s [...]
WASHINGTON -- Considering Nevada’s robust Hispanic population, the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court poses a very telling political challenge for Nevada’s Sen. John Ensign.
As chairman of the Republican Policy Committee in the Senate, Ensign will play a serious role in crafting the tone and substance of his [...]
WASHINGTON — Let the backlash begin.
One day after the extravaganza at Caesars Palace for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, the Republican campaign arm in the Senate posted a web-only video today criticizing the fundraising largess in these recessionary times.
Republicans are betting that Reid’s assertion that he will raise $25 million [...]
WASHINGTON — Vegas just got a new slogan.
Right there in an otherwise policy-wonkish speech this morning, President Barack Obama delivered a' [...]
WASHINGTON -- Greetings, Early Liners, on a morning when so many eyes are on Las Vegas for the president’s visit. And what do they see?
A governor who refuses to greet the commander-in-chief on the tarmac. A mayor hopeful for an apology. And the state’s top senator, Majority Leader Harry [...]
WASHINGTON -- The paper of record weighs in today on the Yucca Mountain debate, insisting the licensing process must go forward even if the dump is to be killed.
In an editorial in today's editions, the New York Times worries that President Barack Obama's proposed steep budget cuts to the [...]
WASHINGTON — Senator John who?
Radio ads are going up today in Iowa to introduce the state to Republican Sen. John Ensign in advance of his arrival there next week.
Ensign is scheduled to make a swing through the Republican-heavy northwestern part of the state in what many in Washington see as [...]
WASHINGTON -- Greetings, Early Liners, the start of a busy week both on Capitol Hill and in Carson City as the legislative countdown begins.
Lawmakers in Washington are pushing to finish several major bills before breaking Friday for the Memorial Day recess week (er, work period). Carson City has just days [...]
WASHINGTON -- Good Monday morning, Early Liners, where the question on many minds is, could the end of the Great Recession in Southern Nevada be near?
All last week, as the stock market edged up and the monthly jobless report wasn’t as before, reports kept pointing to upticks in Las Vegas’ [...]
WASHINGTON — For those of you want to read it for yourselves, this is what the end of Yucca Mountain looks like, straight from President Barack Obama’s proposed 2010 budget released today.
It starts with the heading, “Termination: Yucca Mountain Repository Program”.
Then it’s downhill from there.
But you can read it [...]
WASHINGTON — Former Bush administration officials have been asking the Justice Department to soften the findings in its investigation of memos signed by Nevadan Jay Bybee and another former department lawyer that authorized harsh interrogation techniques, the Washington Post is reporting today.
WASHINGTON — Facing down the backlog of renewable energy project applications, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced today he will be creating a permitting office in Nevada to speed green power development on federal lands.
The Nevada renewable energy permitting office will be among four offices opening in the West, in Arizona, [...]
WASHINGTON — Fans of Internet gambling will try again to overturn the ban as Democratic Rep. Barney Frank announced today he was introducing legislation to blunt the 2006 law that outlawed online games.
Frank’s bill would create an exemption to the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act for gaming operators that are [...]
WASHINGTON — It’s one thing to have your proud mom attend your law school graduation. It’s another for her to give the keynote address.
Democratic Rep. Shelley Berkley will be the keynote speaker Friday morning at UNLV Boyd School of Law’s graduation.
Her eldest son, Max Berkley, is among 142 students earning [...]
WASHINGTON — The paperback edition to Sen. Harry Reid’s autobiography comes out Tuesday with a new, final chapter that includes a poignantly-timed recounting of a written exchange between the senator and Supreme Court Justice David Souter.
In December 2000, the day after the court decided the Bush v. Gore case, and [...]
WASHINGTON — Maybe it’s a two dudes from the West thing. Or something to do with that down-home flat-top haircut.
But when Sen. Harry Reid was asked today which senator he personally enjoyed spending time with, the majority leader thought hard before giving a shout out to the farmer from [...]
WASHINGTON — For Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a one-time amateur fighter, the question was more than academic: Is President Barack Obama more slugger or boxer?
“He would be clearly a boxer. He has a lot of finesse. He is cool in a time of stress,” Reid said this morning at [...]
WASHINGTON — For her legislative debut, Democratic Rep. Dina Titus introduced her first stand-alone bill today — legislation to help homeowners in Nevada get information about reducing mortgage costs.
The bill, similar to an amendment Titus had offered earlier this year, would require mortgage service companies that receive funds from [...]
WASHINGTON — First Lady Michelle Obama was expecting a little help this afternoon at a local food bank from congressional spouses and kids, including one UNLV professor who happens to be married to a Nevada congresswoman.
Tom Wright, husband to Nevada Democratic Rep. Dina Titus, was in town to help Michelle [...]
“I have known Senator Specter for more than a quarter-century. He has always been a man of honor and integrity, and a fine public servant.
“Senator Specter and I have had a long dialogue about his place in an evolving Republican Party. We have not always agreed on every issue, but [...]
WASHINGTON -- Greeting, Early Liners, from the nation’s capital where Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is making news with the epilogue to his autobiography that reveals him as an early encourager of Barack Obama’s presidential aspirations.
In the new, final chapter to “The Good Life: Hard Lessons from Searchlight to [...]
WASHINGTON - Democratic Rep. Sheley Berkley weighed in on the ongoing flap over the president's meeting with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
Berkley said President Barack Obama was probably set up in Venezuela, and had little choice but to shake his hand.
"A number of people have commented on the fact that perhaps" [...]
WASHINGTON -- Democratic Rep. Dina Titus continues her legislative sprint today as the House approved a water bill, including her amendment to seek better models for predicting water availability in the face of climate change and urban growth.
For those of you keeping track, this is Titus’ second legislative success story [...]
WASHINGTON -- Labor Secretary Hilda Solis will be in Las Vegas on Thursday to attend a utility workers union conference.
A spokeswoman confirmed that the secretary will be attending the Power for America National Conference sponsored by the Utility Workers Union of America.
No other information about her trip was immediately [...]
WASHINGTON -- Is a salt formation in New Mexico the new Yucca Mountain?
A trade industry publication reports today that discussions are underway to promote an existing facility in New Mexico as an alternative to storing the nation’s spent nuclear fuel in the desert north of Las Vegas.
The [...]
WASHINGTON -- The White House release of interrogation memos has again turned a spotlight on Jay Bybee, the former Bush administration Justice Department official and now a federal appellate court justice in Nevada.
Among the four memos released last week was one signed by Bybee that involves interrogators’ request to use [...]
WASHINGTON -- Greetings, Early Liners, from the nation’s capital where Congress is about to resume session, President Barack Obama returns from his trip abroad and even the Supreme Court is hearing arguments today.
Policymaking seems to be overtaking politics, if that seems possible, as Congress begins tackling Obama’s ambitious agenda to [...]
WASHINGTON — When President Barack Obama submits his 2010 budget request with actual numbers next month, it is expected to show a substantial funding cut for the Yucca Mountain project, a trade publication reports today.
Obama will cut Yucca Mountain to just $198 million, which is nearly $100 million [...]
WASHINGTON -- Greetings, Early Liners. Lots of cute kids in Easter outfits parading around the city as the egg-roll continues down at the White House.
Who knew the tradition (minus appearances by Fergie and Ziggy Marley) dates back to 1878, shortly after the compromise that put President Rutherford B. Hayes in [...]
WASHINGTON -- Republican Sen. John Ensign may not exactly be the mayor of D.C., but his efforts to change in the city’s gun laws has prompted a dispute with neighboring Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley that could draw the Nevada senator deeper into local politics.
The Washington Post is reporting [...]
WASHINGTON -- Republican Sen. John Ensign continues to expand his role on the national political stage with an upcoming appearance in Iowa, that testing ground of so many political futures.
Congress Daily reports this afternoon that Ensign has been signed by American Future Fund to speak at a lecture series featuring [...]
WASHINGTON -- Democratic Rep. Shelley Berkley’s impassioned defense of her hometown news in Politico today about tourist-town lawmakers pushing back against the demonizing of corporate travel to places like Las Vegas.
Berkley calls herself a “walking Chamber of Commerce” while fellow Democratic Rep. Dina Titus is quoted promoting the [...]
WASHINGTON -- It was only a matter of time before the National Republican Senatorial Committee turned its attention to Ely.
The campaign arm today picked up the Ely Times’ report of resident Jack Norcross’ “Elect Anyone but Harry Reid” sign in front of his shuttered office.
Ely has little love lost [...]
WASHINGTON -- Greetings, Early Liners, from a quiet capital where Congress is on spring break (make that, district work period), the president remains overseas and yet an onslaught of tourists is beginning to fill the void.
Gov. Jim Gibbons makes a guest appearance on page 2 of the Washington Post [...]
WASHINGTON -- It’s not quite a cease-and-desist order, but an author of a widely cited MIT study on the costs of cap-and-trade legislation told Republican leaders today they are misrepresenting the results of his findings.
Republicans in both the House and Senate have been repeatedly quoting the study as the [...]
WASHINGTON -- Sometimes people say this town is like Hollywood for not-so-pretty people. But sometimes, as is the case today, it just feels like Hollywood.
Former cast members of the “West Wing” are in town to lobby on the Employee Free Choice Act, the labor-backed bill that would make it [...]
WASHINGTON — Greetings, Early Liners, from the nation’s capital where the cherry blossoms are allegedly beginning to bloom, a little late this year, but perhaps in time for the annual budget fight in Congress.
Congress will be pressing to finish up the bulk of its budget exercise before lawmakers depart [...]
WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said today that a liberal group’s ad campaign to push moderate lawmakers in support of the president’s budget is “not helpful.”
The group Americans United for Change started running TV ads this week in 12 states that are home to some of the [...]
WASHINGTON -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and other Democratic lawmakers headed to the White House this afternoon for a briefing with the president on the war in Afghanistan.
Reid said President Barack Obama discussed the Afghanistan war in an earlier phone call, a conversation Reid called “typical Obama ... very [...]
WASHINGTON — Here’s a question: If Congress passes legislation you helped create but did not vote for, can you still claim credit as it becomes law?
Republican Rep. Dean Heller voted against a massive lands bill today as it cleared a final hurdle in the House.
The bill includes several items for [...]
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama isn’t wilting from the pushback Nevada’s lawmakers and others have lodged over his budget proposal to lower the tax deduction the wealthy take on mortgage interest and charitable contributions.
In his prime-time news conference Tuesday night, Obama was asked if he regretted the proposal. As the [...]
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama has arrived this afternoon at the Capitol to brief Senate Democrats on his budget plan, even as he is getting pushback from moderates in his own party.
The salesman-in-chief is taking his case to lawmakers as budget talks are underway today in both the House and [...]
