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“It was like Elvis was in the house,” said Senator John McCain. “I’ve never seen anything like it.”
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Movement on gun control and immigration in the U.S. Senate obscures an inevitable roadblock to either measure: a resistant Republican-run House.
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President Barack Obama’s budget proposal tying student-loan interest rates to the market is drawing criticism from education advocates because there’s no cap to protect borrowers when rates climb.
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The Senate intelligence committee delayed a vote on John Brennan’s nomination to head the CIA by at least a week after the Obama administration provided internal communications demanded by Republicans about last year’s deadly attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya.
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The U.S. Senate voted to advance a Democratic measure to create a job program for military veterans.
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Republican Senators Richard Burr and Tom Coburn called for an investigation of government disclosure of proposed regulations restricting federal aid to Apollo Group Inc., Education Management Corp. and other for-profit colleges.
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A U.S. Senate vote on a bill to create a job program for military veterans is designed to help Florida Democrat Bill Nelson tout his efforts for the state’s 1.7 million veterans as he seeks a third term.
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Automatic cuts set to take effect today will pinch U.S. government functions as the country enters a more austere era that could push discretionary spending as a share of the economy to its lowest level in at least 50 years.
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As $85 billion in spending cuts hit the federal budget, President Barack Obama is taking the rare step of lavishing personal attention on Republican lawmakers he considers open to making a deal to reduce the deficit.
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President Barack Obama is having dinner with about a dozen Republican senators at a Washington hotel tonight in an effort to build a coalition on a deficit- cutting deal.
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