by Jonathan Palmer | Mar 18, 2014 | Education
WASHINGTON — Key child care legislation has passed the Senate, but still must win approval in the U.S. House. If the bill makes it to President Barack Obama’s desk, it will mark a significant step in efforts to improve early childhood education and child care...
by Rebecca Nelson | Feb 21, 2012 | Politics
WASHINGTON — With her hand chopping the air in condemnation, Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton of Washington on Tuesday accused Congress of overstepping its authority with legislation restricting abortions for women in the District of Columbia. Introduced by Rep. Trent...
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...
by Peter Larson | Jan 19, 2011 | Business, Politics
WASHINGTON — Comments and questions broke out on Twitter Wednesday when Chinese President Hu Jintao failed to answer a question from the Associated Press’s Ben Feller about his government’s controversial human rights record. Bloomberg’s Hans Nichols followed up on his...
by Alanna Autler | Jan 19, 2011 | Politics
WASHINGTON –The House will vote on repealing the heath care reform law after 5:30 p.m. The repeal is expected to pass in the Republican-led House. Throughout the day, House Democrats and Republicans made their final cases during press conferences and floor...
