by Bailey Williams | Feb 3, 2015 | Business, Politics
WASHINGTON – House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., touted President Barack Obama’s budget plan Tuesday morning, stressing the importance of research, education, infrastructure and tax reform in helping American working families. Pelosi said the budget should...
by Nancy Wang | Feb 3, 2015 | Business
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama’s proposed $4 trillion budget for 2016 would not increase the deficit and also help pay down the $18 trillion national debt, the head of the Office of Management and Budget said Tuesday. “We have taken the action of the full six...
by Yunita Ong | Feb 3, 2015 | Immigration, Topics
WASHINGTON – Senate Democrats blocked a bill Tuesday that would have overturned President Barack Obama’s order loosening immigration restrictions, a move that leave the Department of Homeland Security funding in question. Three GOP senators, including Majority Leader...
by Jesse Kirsch | Feb 3, 2015 | Health & Science, Topics
WASHINGTON—The House Tuesday passed legislation that would repeal the Affordable Care Act, the latest of numerous attempts to dissolve Obamacare, but also the first strike in the 114th Congress where both the House and Senate are under Republican control. “The...
by Madeline Fox | Feb 3, 2015 | Energy
WASHINGTON – The U.S. needs more pipelines, railroads and other infrastructure to support the growth in domestic oil and natural gas production, transportation and energy industry leaders told a House infrastructure subcommittee Tuesday. The hearing, which focused on...
by Olivia Marcus | Feb 3, 2015 | Business, Politics
WASHINGTON — In the first House Ways and Means Committee hearing following the release of President Barack Obama’s 2016 budget proposal, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew defended the would-be tax increases GOP leaders are already trying to kill. “It has been almost three...
by Astrid Goh & Tara Longardner | Feb 3, 2015 | Health & Science, National Security, Topics
By Astrid Goh WASHINGTON — Veteran Affairs Secretary Bob McDonald brought his message of transparency about health care benefits to a town hall Tuesday morning. Deputy VA Secretary Sloan Gibson and members from the Veterans Affairs Committee also participated in...
by Preston R. Michelson | Feb 3, 2015 | Education
WASHINGTON — Sen. Lamar Alexander called for the federal government Tuesday to encourage — but not mandate — educational innovation as it updates the “No Child Left Behind” law. “I hope we are not far from a conclusion from moving from hearings and discussions to...
by Ashley Gilmore | Feb 2, 2015 | Education, Politics
By Ashley Gilmore WASHINGTON— The centerpiece of President Barack Obama’s $70.7 billion education budget for 2016 – free community college education – would “make college as free and universal as high school was 100 years ago,” Education Secretary Arne Dunn said...
by Jesse Kirsch | Feb 2, 2015 | Living
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by Tyler Pager | Feb 2, 2015 | National Security
By Tyler Pager WASHINGTON – The Pentagon requested $534 billion for 2016 on Monday as part of President Barack Obama’s budget, $35 billion dollars above the caps set by Congress in the automatic spending cuts. In addition, it proposed $51 billion for overseas...
by Madeline Fox | Feb 2, 2015 | Business, Living
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama advocated for a six-year, $478 billion infrastructure funding plan in his 2016 budget, released Monday, as Congress faces a May deadline to extend the federal infrastructure fund. Under Obama’s plan, U.S. companies would pay a...
