by Safiya Merchant | Feb 28, 2012 | Education
WASHINGTON — A red-faced Rep. George Miller refusing to yield his time to a Republican lawmaker highlighted the simmering partisan tension at Tuesday’s House committee hearing on education reform. The session amounted to a debate between majority Republicans wanting...
by James Arkin | Feb 16, 2012 | Education
WASHINGTON –The No Child Left Behind education law that was a hallmark of the Bush administration has been due for a five-year renewal since 2007, but Congress, mired in partisan battles over education policy, has only been able to muster support for annual renewals....
by Chris Kirk | Feb 8, 2012 | Environment, Politics
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration’s new emission caps on oil and coal-fired power plants are the most costly regulations on utilities to date, House Republicans argued at a hearing Wednesday. “It is simply unacceptable for this administration to continue to impose...
by Ariel Rothfield | Feb 8, 2012 | Politics
WASHINGTON— Free of the usual partisan divides, a House panel put aside political differences Wednesday to discuss a growing, universal threat to the national security and economy of the United States — cyberattacks. “We have a real and very present danger when it...
by Mattias Gugel | Feb 1, 2012 | Business
WASHINGTON — Republicans and Democrats sparred Wednesday over a way to cure the economy at a House Budget Committee hearing after the head of the Congressional Budget Office said the country is on an “unsustainable fiscal course.” Congressional Budget Office Director...
