by Jonathan Palmer | Mar 12, 2014 | Education
WASHINGTON- Legislation aimed at expanding federal funding for programs that allow low-income students to leave failing schools awaits action on Capitol Hill. But hopes for passage this year are fading with the midterm election looming in November. Two bills, the...
by Stephanie Haines | Mar 10, 2014 | National Security
Source: Center for Strategic and International StudiesWASHINGTON – The Pentagon’s just-released long-term strategic policy plan will be jeopardized if congressionally mandated budget cuts continue, the Defense Department’s under secretary for strategy said Monday....
by Ellen Garrison | Mar 7, 2014 | Health & Science, Politics
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley might be a 79 year-old Republican, but he knows how to connect to young American voters better than many of his younger colleagues — via Twitter. “People make fun of him because he has typos and he has weird misspellings and it...
by Stephanie Haines | Feb 26, 2014 | National Security
WASHINGTON – – New Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson Wednesday agreed with members of a congressional committee that his agency needs to focus more on border security. The House Homeland Security Committee hosted Johnson, who became the secretary of the...
by Stephanie Haines | Feb 4, 2014 | Environment
WASHINGTON—A bipartisan coalition of senators and congressmen urged President Barack Obama to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, the fourth installment of an operation to channel oil from Canada to Nebraska, at a news conference Tuesday. The $7 billion project proposed...
