Sen. Richard Durbin of Illinois says the state's legislature should order a special election to fill President-elect Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat rather than allow Gov. Rod Blagojevich to pick a new senator.
The long-delayed start of a new consumer protection bureau took a major step forward Wednesday when the White House defied Congressional Republicans who had been holding out for changes that consumer advocates say would have substantially weakened the agency. President Barack Ob …
WASHINGTON -- Senate negotiators reached a deal Friday on a two-month extension of the payroll tax holiday, unemployment benefits and Medicare payments to doctors. The deal, if approved by Congress, would require President Barack Obama to make a deci …
Has the 112th Congress -- which is winding down its work for the year -- been one of the worst ever? According to the new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, 42 percent agree with that assessment -- the highest percentage on this particular question, which dates back to 199 …
In his first appearance on a Sunday morning national news program as a presidential candidate, Gov.
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