Showing posts with label U.S. Congress. Show all posts
Showing posts with label U.S. Congress. Show all posts
Friday, June 17, 2016

Trumped by Trump, Republicans stumped for words

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WASHINGTON -- The awkward efforts of Republicans to embrace their party’s standard-bearer Donald Trump looked particularly painful in Con...
Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Text of Obama's final State of the Union address

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This is the text, as prepared for delivery, of US President Barack Obama's last State of the Union address as posted by the White Hou...
Thursday, March 27, 2014

White House unveils plan to end NSA's bulk collection of phone data

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WASHINGTON - The Obama administration on Thursday announced details of its plan to end the government's vast bulk collection of data ...
Thursday, October 3, 2013

Obama, congressional leaders still deadlocked on shutdown

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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama met with Republican and Democratic leaders in Congress on Wednesday to try to break a deadlock that ...
Tuesday, October 1, 2013

What happens if the US government shuts down?

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WASHINGTON -- A US government shutdown is possible on Tuesday, the first day of fiscal 2014, because Congress has so far failed to find a...

US govt shuts down

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The United States lurched into a dreaded government shutdown early Tuesday for the first time in 17 years, triggering agency closures and...
Sunday, September 29, 2013

US Republicans to amend budget bill, return it to Senate

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WASHINGTON - The US House will vote Saturday on a Republican plan that funds the government through mid-December and delays implementat...
Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Obama wants immigration bill 'very soon'

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WASHINGTON DC - President Barack Obama on Wednesday urged lawmakers to agree as early as January on a bill to lay a path to citizenship f...