President Barack Obama's Democratic allies in the Senate are unveiling legislation Thursday to avoid a looming set of sharp, across-the-board spending cuts set to... Read more »
Seeking to focus on nation-building at home, President Barack Obama will use his State of the Union address to call for more spending on infrastructure and... Read more »
Reviving his populist re-election message, President Barack Obama will press a politically-divided Congress to approve more tax increases and fewer spending cuts... Read more »
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio will deliver the Republican response to President Barack Obama's State of the Union address on Tuesday. Read more »
After two tumultuous years of budget brinkmanship, President Barack Obama and Republicans in Congress finally agree on something — namely, that a previous... Read more »
Congress sent President Barack Obama drama-free legislation on Thursday raising the debt ceiling, averting a government default and putting off the next... Read more »
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