After meeting for two hours Thursday, the latest lawmakers to be tasked with solving the budget puzzle emerged from Blair House with Opening Day optimism. Vice President Joe Biden called it a “good, productive” session. “We …
How do you react when you suspect a friend has been aiding your worst enemy? If you’re Rep. Ted Poe, you demand they prove their loyalty. “Pakistan has a lot of explaining to do. It seems unimaginable that Osama bin Laden was …
Steve King was the first member of Congress to float the inevitable question. “Wonder what President Obama thinks of waterboarding now?” the Iowa Republican tweeted shortly after Obama announced the death of the world’s most infamous terrorist. In the days since, even as they maintain the tacit truce that bans partisan potshots in the …
The answers that came at the end of the decade-long manhunt for Osama bin Laden have unleashed almost as many questions of their own. Two in particular are likely to take center stage on Capitol Hill in the coming weeks.
The death of Osama bin Laden was not a partisan triumph. It seems craven, in the wake of an event that caps a decade-long manhunt touched off by mass murder, to examine how politicians are using it to score political points. But the daring raid on bin Laden’s fortified compound in Abbottobad was without question a politically momentous …
It was the world’s biggest death party. The news of Osama bin Laden’s killing drew a few thousand Washingtonians to the White House on Sunday night, transforming Pennsylvania Avenue and Lafayette Park into the site of a jubilant frat party. Draped in American flags, the jumbled mass of strangers chanted “U-S-A,” mugged for the …
At a town hall session today in Waterford, Wisc., Paul Ryan advocated eliminating “corporate welfare” like subsidies for oil companies, which have emerged as a sparring point thanks to soaring gas prices.
The Easter recess hasn’t been restful for Republican congressmen in swing districts. Within minutes of beginning his presentation at an Orlando town hall Tuesday, freshman Rep. Dan Webster was cut off by angry constituents. Irked …
John Boehner is perpetually on message. Which is why the House Speaker’s comments to Jonathan Karl of ABC News, in an interview posted this afternoon, were eye-opening. At a moment when Democrats are using Paul Ryan’s budget blueprint to blister Republicans for trampling Medicare, Boehner appeared at times to backpedal somewhat from …
It’s been a tough stretch for Republican Congressman Sean Duffy. A month ago, the prized recruit was embroiled in controversy after telling a town hall crowd back in Wisconsin’s Seventh District that he was “struggling” to pay …
In the annals of political reportage, I thought perhaps we’d hit bottom last week with this: a fake journalist interviewing a fake presidential candidate about a campaign that will never exist. Meghan McCain and Trump banter …
In the midst of an ethics probe, beleaguered Republican Sen. John Ensign of Nevada announced Thursday that he will resign his office, effective May 3.
If you’re among the thousands of poker players irritated by last Friday’s crackdown on three Internet poker sites–and in the interest of disclosure, I am–the first person you should blame is Bill Frist. In October 2006, the …
