House GOP panel moves on deep budget cuts
Associated Press |
posted 3 minutes ago
Republicans controlling the House are pressing ahead with slashing cuts to domestic programs far deeper than the cuts departments like Education, Interior and State are facing under an already painful round of automatic austerity.
McKeon: State didn't ask for help before Benghazi
Richard Lardner, Associated Press |
posted 8 minutes ago
A senior House Republican says U.S. military forces weren't in a position to help those under attack at a U.S. diplomatic post in Libya because the State Department had failed to ask the Pentagon for help in securing the compound before the raid.
Key senator to let Myanmar sanctions bill lapse
Matthew Pennington, Associated Press |
posted 14 minutes ago
Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell, easing up on his long-held tough stance on Myanmar, said Tuesday he planned to allow key sanctions legislation against the Southeast Asian nation to lapse because of the country's progress toward democracy.
Committee nears final vote on immigration bill
David Espo and Erica Werner, Associated Press |
posted 16 minutes ago
Far-reaching immigration legislation neared a final committee vote on Tuesday as the White House and Democratic supporters sought to delay a showdown over the rights of gay spouses until a debate in the full Senate.
Senate votes to make small cut to food stamps
Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press |
posted 33 minutes ago
The Senate voted Tuesday to keep a $400 million annual cut _ or roughly a half of 1 percent _ to the food stamp program as part of a major five-year farm bill.
Senate panel approves weapons for Syrian rebels
Donna Cassata, Associated Press |
posted May 21st - 3:24pm
A Senate panel voted on Tuesday to provide weapons to rebels battling the forces of Syrian President Bashar Assad, the first time lawmakers have endorsed the aggressive U.S. military step of arming the opposition in the 2-year-old civil war.
IRS official Lerner to take 5th at hearing
Henry C. Jackson, Associated Press |
posted May 21st - 2:46pm
A key figure in the Internal Revenue Service controversy plans to invoke her constitutional right not to testify at a congressional hearing on Wednesday.
US lawmakers seek limits on Russia cooperation
Desmond Butler, Associated Press |
posted May 21st - 12:58pm
Republicans are trying to block Obama administration overtures to Russia on missile defense, creating a potential obstacle to arms control talks.
US lawmakers seek Asia missile defense safeguard
Associated Press |
posted May 21st - 12:16pm
Lawmakers are seeking to prohibit the U.S. from removing missile defense equipment from East Asia, even if the threat posed by a nuclear-armed North Korea is eliminated.
Okla. Senator says tornado aid should be paid for
Associated Press |
posted May 21st - 8:46am
Conservative Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn says that any additional federal aid to help tornado victims and to rebuild devastated areas of his state should be financed with cuts to other programs in the government's $3.6 trillion budget.
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