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In blow to Obama, Senate blocks gun-control plan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's campaign to curb gun violence after the Newtown school massacre was dealt...
Preliminary tests show deadly poison in letter to Senator
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Authorities on Tuesday intercepted a letter sent to Mississippi Senator Roger Wicker that preliminary ...
Senate backers of background checks scramble for votes
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bipartisan proposal to expand background checks for gun buyers appeared on Tuesday to be short of th...
'Hard work starts now' as Senate takes up gun control
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate cleared the way on Thursday for debate on proposals to curb gun violence, rejecting an effo...
Key senators reach deal on background checks for gun buyers
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Prospects for a gun control bill's passage in the Senate in coming weeks got a boost on Wednesday ...
U.S. stares down start of steep 'automatic' budget cuts
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government hurtled on Friday toward making deep spending cuts that threaten to hinder the nat...
In separating gun-control bills, Democrats reveal strategy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's fellow Democrats in the Senate have spread his gun-control proposals acro...
Feinstein has assurance assault weapon ban will get a vote
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The senator leading the charge to revive a assault weapons ban conceded on Sunday, just days before he...
State Department pick John Kerry draws praise at hearing
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - John Kerry urged Congress to fix the U.S. economy to ensure America's role as a world leader and p...
Debt limit vote set; Obama likely to sign
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A measure to extend the U.S. debt limit for nearly four months moved closer on Tuesday to a vote and t...
Hours from 'fiscal cliff,' Washington still awaits deal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress comes back on Monday without a deal to avert the "fiscal cliff" and only a...
Washington stirs for 'fiscal cliff' talks as Obama heads home
WASHINGTON/HONOLULU (Reuters) - Efforts to prevent the U.S. economy from going over a "fiscal cliff" stirred back t...
Democratic Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii dead at 88
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic Senator Daniel Inouye, a decorated World War Two veteran who lost an arm in battle and repr...
Obama wants to target gun violence, but how?
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - His words have been eloquent and sympathetic, as they typically are when he is the voice of a nation i...
Obama, Boehner hold frank meeting on 'fiscal cliff'
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner held a "frank" face...
Rice meeting with senators fails to dampen criticism
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice on Tuesday conceded that an early account she gave ab...
With 'fiscal cliff' deadline nearing, parties still at odds
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the U.S. Congress on Monday called on President Barack Obama to detail long-term spendi...
Romney paid $1.9 million in taxes in 2011
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney paid $1.9 million in taxes on more than $13 mill...
Michelle Obama says change takes time
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Reuters) - First lady Michelle Obama acknowledged on Tuesday that the change her husband Barack Ob...
Shooting victim's wife has baby, 7 victims still critical
AURORA, Colo. (Reuters) - A 21-year-old woman who escaped injury in the Colorado theater shooting rampage gave birth to a bab...
Senate 'Fire Department' seeks to ease partisan rancor
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Call it a humble effort to douse the flames of dysfunction and paralysis in the U.S. Senate.Frustrated...
Secret Service agents lawyer: 'Trial by mob' wrong
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The attorney for some of the Secret Service agents under investigation in a scandal involving prostitu...
Republicans see 'jobs bills' as election winner
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Tucked in his left breast-coat pocket where he can pull it out to wave before TV cameras is ammunition...
Lawmakers flip on piracy bills protested on Web
(Reuters) - Some members of the Congress switched sides to oppose antipiracy legislation as protests blanketed the Internet o...
Congress Passes Payroll Tax Deal
By Richard Cowan and Rachelle YounglaiWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama signed into law a two-month payroll tax c...
Congress Punts Hard Payroll Tax Work to 2012
By Richard Cowan and Rachelle YounglaiWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama signed into law a two-month payroll tax c...
Congress Passes Payroll Tax Deal
By Richard Cowan and Rachelle YounglaiWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congress approved a two-month payroll tax cut extension on Frida...
Speaker Boehner Succumbs on Tax Deal
By Rachelle Younglai and Kim DixonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner on Thursday bowed to p...
Insight: Boehner leadership in focus in tax cut debate
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In Congress' tense drama over how to extend payroll tax cuts for 160 million Americans, it may be the ...
Super committee had glimpse of elusive compromise
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It didn't seem like mission impossible just two weeks ago.Inside a private room on the first floor of ...
Reid, Boehner huddle on budget deal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top Democrat in Congress said on Tuesday he saw few signs of progress on a deficit-cutting deal, a...
Key House Democrat dour on deficit panel success
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With Republicans and Democrats in a familiar deadlock over taxes, prospects are poor for crafting a de...
Competing fiscal plans blocked in divided Senate
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Republicans and Democrats rejected each other's economic stimulus bills on Thursday, underscori...
Obama woos military veterans on bus tour
NORTH CHESTERFIELD, Virginia (Reuters) - President Barack Obama cast a wider net on Wednesday to shore up support in key elec...
Senate defeats Obama's jobs bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate defeated President Barack Obama's job-creation package on Tuesday in a sign that Washington...
Obama chides banks, taps anger over Wall Street
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama launched an onslaught against banks and Republicans on Thursday for working to ...
Democrats tweak tax hike plan for millionaires
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - At the request of the White House, Senate Democrats have pushed back the effective date of their propo...
Obama's jobs bill falls to pieces in Congress
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's job-creation package effectively fell to pieces on Monday as a top Republican...
House passes spending bill as showdown looms
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the House of Representatives regrouped Friday to approve a must-pass spending bill, but...
Obama's 'Buffett tax' roils Congress tax debate
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When Senator Charles Schumer urged quick action to raise taxes on the rich -- people like billionaire ...
Tea Party Express launches bus tour
NAPA, California (Reuters) - With the Republican campaign for the White House taking shape, hundreds of Tea Party activists k...
Baucus in deficit super committee trio
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Max Baucus, the Senate's top tax legislator, was named Tuesday to serve on a deficit reduction super c...
Congress reaches deal to end FAA shutdown
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congressional leaders struck a deal on Thursday to resolve a partisan dispute and end a partial shutdo...
Special: How Washington took the U.S. to the brink
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The world's largest economy was headed toward an unprecedented default, and all Washington wanted to t...
Obama to Congress: Find way out of debt 'mess'
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With four days remaining until the United States hits its debt limit, President Barack Obama on Friday...
Republicans race to revive debt plan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican leaders will scramble to rescue their budget deficit-cutting plan on Friday after conservat...
Debt bill set for vote, White House urges compromise
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Republican deficit reduction plan headed to a close vote in the Congress on Thursday and the White H...