by Megan Neunan | Mar 15, 2012 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska, did not like what Veterans’ Affairs had to say to Sandra Strickland, a homeless U.S. Army veteran, when she contacted them for help. “You got a list of shelters. ‘Here it is. See you later?’” he asked Strickland of...
by Chris Kirk | Mar 14, 2012 | Politics
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is on a mission to end subsidies for big oil companies. “Right now, $4 billion of your tax dollars — $4 billion — subsidizes the oil industry every year,” he said in New Hampshire earlier this month. “Now,...
by Safiya Merchant | Mar 14, 2012 | Politics
WASHINGTON – In the 2012 election cycle, one demographic has caught the eye of the Republican presidential candidates, President Barack Obama and the mainstream media — for better and for worse. Many analysts think Hispanic voters are the key to the outcome of...
by Ariel Rothfield | Mar 14, 2012 | Politics
WASHINGTON—While the economy still tops the talking points of Republican presidential candidates, the battle over access to birth control and other women’s health issues has sprung to life on the primary campaign trail as a hot-button issue that some say will...
by Rachel Morello | Mar 14, 2012 | Politics
The 13th annual National Health Through Fitness Day gets underway with a breakfast briefing. Bill Sells, vice president of government relations for SGMA, delivers opening remarks. (MNS)To prepare the group for their meetings with members of Congress, SGMA provided...
by Rebecca Nelson | Mar 13, 2012 | Politics
WASHINGTON – Here we go again: More than three years after President Barack Obama took office, a survey suggests a majority of Republican voters in two deep South states still think Obama is a Muslim. The Public Policy Polling survey asked likely Republican voters in...
by Kit Fox | Mar 13, 2012 | Health & Science, Politics
WASHINGTON — A grainy black and white video on YouTube shows then President-John F. Kennedy addressing a joint session of Congress on May 25, 1961. Kennedy pauses after each phrase and inflects his voice upwards as he says, “I believe that this nation should...
by Ed Demaria | Mar 13, 2012 | National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON — A debate over how to balance government openness against the need to protect information vital to national security has reopened on Capitol Hill in the wake of a 2011 Supreme Court decision. In the middle of “Sunshine Week,” designed to...
by Patrick Svitek | Mar 12, 2012 | National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is not known to bite his tongue. So when the former budget guru was called to testify on the Pentagon’s spending plan earlier this month before Congress, he also refused to mince words. Before the Senate Budget...
by Safiya Merchant | Mar 7, 2012 | Politics
Hector E. Sanchez, the executive director of the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement, said illegal immigration benefits American business (Safiya Merchant/Medill).Janet Murguia, the president and CEO of the National Council of La Raza, said...
by Ed Demaria | Mar 7, 2012 | Politics
WASHINGTON— Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who also is chairman of the Democratic National Convention, on Wednesday criticized the Washington establishment – especially Republicans — for letting partisan bickering stall action, especially denouncing...
by Shirley Li | Mar 6, 2012 | National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama faced an eager press Tuesday in his first official news conference this year, taking on tough topics ranging from the question of possible U.S. involvement in Syria to conservative political commentator Rush Limbaugh. After quickly...
