A Senate committee approved a sweeping immigration reform bill Tuesday that would provide a path to citizenship for up to 11 million illegal immigrants, setting the stage for the full Senate to consider the landmark legislation next month.
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The Bush administration appointee who led the Internal Revenue Service during President Obama’s first term told Congress on Tuesday that he was saddened by some of the agency’s actions regarding applications for tax-exempt status during his tenure.
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This IRS scandal is, as expected, getting most interesting.
People are asking questions about who knew what when — a variant of Sen. Howard Baker’s famous question at the Watergate hearings 40 years ago: “What did the president know, and when did he know it?”
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* Conservatives are rallying against the immigration bill.
* Senate Republicans worked out a compromise.
* While the finance committee grilled the IRS.
* Inhofe says Oklahoma will not be like Sandy.
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When the Justice Department began investigating possible leaks of classified information about North Korea in 2009, investigators did more than obtain telephone records of a working journalist suspected of receiving the secret material.
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SARGODHA, Pakistan -- As I reached the polling station, ready to cast my vote here in my hometown after a 24-hour trip home from the U.S., where I'm in college, my biggest concern was not rigged elections or standing in a long line in scorching heat but simply coming out of the place alive.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio — President Obama urged the graduating class of Ohio State University on Sunday to take an active role in guiding the future of democracy in the United States and to fight for the issues that the new graduates care about.
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A change in federal education loan policies has left many students at some of the nation’s historically black colleges and universities struggling to fill a gap in their financial aid and forcing hundreds to leave school.
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Early on in his tenure, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. banged the drum so loudly for better pay for federal judges that he got accused of hyperbole for calling the issue a “constitutional crisis.”
He regularly pressed for more money for them in his annual state-of-the-judiciary reports, but his head must have begun to hurt from running into the brick wall across the street.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. — The challenges facing the Republican Party as it heads into the elections of 2014 and 2016 were on stark display here this weekend as South Carolina Republicans gathered for their annual convention, an event that revealed a party in the throes of some internal strife.
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