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Barack Obama’s first visit to the U.S.-Mexico border as President is the main attraction of Tuesday’s Lone Star state swing. Obama will tour a cargo facility and give a speech in El Paso, the latest effort in a push to court a crucial Latino voting bloc bristling over the lack of progress on immigration reform. [...]
When the history of the American financial system’s near-death experience in 2008 is written, FDIC chairwoman Sheila Bair, who officially announced her July 8 departure yesterday, will feature prominently.
–Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, referring to Chinese leaders’ reactions to democratic uprisings. She also called the country’s human rights record “deplorable.” The U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue began Monday in Washington, D.C.
Memphis, Tenn. The Mississippi River is starting to crest here and thousands of tourists are on hand to witness it, even as hundreds of Tennesseans are forced to flee the rising waters. A dispatch from the front lines.
Two legal challenges to the Affordable Care Act will be argued in a Virginia courtroom Tuesday morning, moving them one step closer to the U.S. Supreme Court. The first, filed by the Commonwealth of Virginia, has already scored a victory at the district court level. Another, filed by Liberty University, was struck down. Both decisions [...]
For the fourth time in recent weeks, President Obama made a public dive into the national debate over immigration reform with a major policy address on Tuesday near the U.S. southern border in El Paso, Texas. White House aides hoped the visit demonstrated Obama’s commitment to dealing with the polarizing issue. “The most valuable commodity [...]
Kent Conrad floats short-term debt ceiling extensions. Aid to Pakistan will likely last, but Diane Feinstein is questioning it. The country may be close to giving U.S. officials access to bin Laden’s wives. Nate Silver hypothesizes bin Laden’s end could make a small but lasting difference in Obama approval.
John Boehner looked a little like a kid summoned to the principal’s office. Standing at the podium Monday night before a sea of business tycoons in New York City, Boehner was a tad shaky and plenty defiant, the reluctant bearer of a message he knew his corporate audience wasn’t going to like.
House Speaker John Boehner will address the Economic Club of New York City on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan on Monday night. Though Boehner has long been an avowed friend of business – he received a 94% Chamber of Commerce rating in 2008 — it will not be a pleasant visit.
Updated: May 10, 2011, 2 p.m. E.T. Six months after suffering a shellacking in November’s midterm elections, Democrats believe they can pick up the 25 seats they need to snatch back the House. Mapping out a path to 2012 may be a fool’s errand this far out. But political momentum and the topography of the [...]
