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... Monday evenings. In perhaps a nod to the need to resolve dysfunction in Washington, Reid and McConnell have agreed to sit down together for an interview Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press." Meanwhile, in the House, members approved a farm bill after their first attempt came up short. The ...
... or ABC with Diane Sawyer every night. It's more like a cable talk show -- or a radio talk show with a camera showing the interviewer and interviewee siting across from each other. In a response to the column, NewsHour senior correspondent Gwen Ifill wrote Zurawik: Is it what NBC ...
... the storm's aftermath, and our interview with Gov. Mary Fallin. Politico reports that retired U.S. ambassador Thomas Pickering will give a closed-door interview about his role as Benghazi investigator. The House votes Thursday to keep student loan interest rates from increasing on July 1. Attorney General Ken ...
... Ken Cuccinelli debuts his second television ad Monday in which he promotes the plan he announced last week to cut corporate and individual income tax rates. Jason Richwine, the co-author of a controversial Heritage Foundation report critical of the Senate's comprehensive immigration reform bill, resigned Friday. The move ...
... He attended the House GOP retreat the following January, but last met with the conference at the White House on June 1, 2011. In an interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos, Mr. Obama outlined his philosophy on his recent outreach to Republicans. He said he has discovered "people don't ...
Paul Solman answers Next Avenue readers' questions about whether a minimum wage hike would induce people to leave welfare, and whether such a hike would increase the government's tax revenue. Protesters advocate for raising the minimum wage outside the office of Rep. Reid Ribble, R-Wis., in July 2012. President Obama called for raising the minimum...
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, talks to reporters at the Capitol on Wednesday. Photo by Joshua Roberts/Reuters. The latest chapter in the real-life drama that is the fiscal cliff will play out on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday when lawmakers vote on Speaker John Boehner's "Plan B" proposal that would...
A man walks past the U.S. Capitol building on Monday. Photo by Joshua Roberts/Reuters. President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner are getting closer to a deal to avert the fiscal cliff, but they are not there yet. The president put forward another proposal Monday that called for $1.2 trillion in revenues and leaving in...
Rep.-elect Ted Yoho has pledged allegiance to the United States, his wife of 38 years and, during his successful run for Florida's 3rd congressional district, that he wouldn't become a career politician, saying he would serve no more than four terms in that office. But the veterinarian and small business owner chose not to follow...
House Speaker John Boehner talks to reporters at the Capitol on Tuesday. Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images. President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner have picked up the pace of their negotiations over the fiscal cliff, but they do not appear any closer to reaching an agreement to averting nearly $500 billion in automatic tax...
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