by Elisa Santana | Mar 2, 2011 | Business, Politics
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by Lauren Schwartzberg | Mar 2, 2011 | Environment, Politics
WASHINGTON— The head of the Environmental Protection Agency Wednesday defended President Barack Obama’s proposal to reduce the agency’s spending by 12.5 percent in 2012 in an appearance in front of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. “This FY 2012...
by Rebecca Cohen | Mar 2, 2011 | National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON — With upheaval spreading across the Middle East, now is the wrong time for proposed cuts to the State Department budget, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday. A 16 percent hit to State Department funding in the 2011 continuing budget...
by Elisa Santana | Mar 2, 2011 | Business, Politics
In order to create jobs and expand the economy, panelists at the Center for American Progress argued Wednesday for reforms to the American model of capitalism—a path also needed, they said, to counteract executives earning billions and potential elimination of the...
by Elena Schneider | Mar 2, 2011 | Business, Politics
WASHINGTON — Citing an urgent need to curb the rising costs of Medicare and Medicaid, members of the Senate Finance Committee grilled two government health fraud experts Wednesday on the effectiveness and spending habits of their organizations. “As the number of...
by Peter Larson | Mar 1, 2011 | National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON — The military descended on Capitol Hill Wednesday morning, touting national security as grounds to stress the demand for passing long-awaited 2011 spending legislation. Defense Secretary Robert Gates joined Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike...
by Lauren Schwartzberg | Mar 1, 2011 | Environment, Politics
WASHINGTON— Imagine walking down independence Avenue late one Friday night. The time is way past when you would expect anyone to be working. Yet, as you walk by government building after government building, you notice that just about every single light on. The...
by Alex Campbell | Mar 1, 2011 | National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took a break Tuesday from “around-the-clock” work on the situation in Libya to defend that work’s importance on Capitol Hill. “Marathon diplomacy” has led to “quick, aggressive...
by Astrid Goh & Tara Longardner | Mar 1, 2011 | Education, Politics
WASHINGTON — Education Secretary Arne Duncan on Tuesday defended the administration’s plan to increase spending on education by 11 percent in its budget proposal for next year. But he was pressed hard by Republicans, who say that the country does not have...
by Alanna Autler | Mar 1, 2011 | Politics
WASHINGTON –Some governors said Tuesday they want to regain control over their Medicaid programs because President Obama’s landmark health care law will add unnecessary costs to their state budgets. On Tuesday Governors Haley Barbour, R-Miss., Gary Herbert R-Utah, and...
by Alex Campbell | Feb 23, 2011 | Politics
WASHINGTON — A gray limousine pulled up, and the mob lurched forward. Daouda Diabaté stepped out, and the drums sounded. Hugs and handshakes followed, until he took his seat on a couch bisecting Ivorian and American flags. Diabaté, the Ivory Coast’s newest...
by Peter Larson | Feb 23, 2011 | National Security, Politics
The joke at Gitmo used to be in order to win you have to lose. Take it from Air Force Col. Morris Davis, former chief prosecutor of the military commissions at Guantanamo Bay. Davis presided over the prosecution of detainees from 2005 to 2007. He brought charges...
