WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The tactics Republicans deploy as the Senate Banking Committee begins hashing out new rules for financial products, banks and derivatives on Monday could signal whether a bipartisan bill will emerge.
Republicans are expected to offer hundreds of amendments to a bill being offered by the panel's Democratic ...More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic leaders in the House of Representatives on Sunday said they had the votes to pass a landmark healthcare reform bill seen as critical to President Barack Obama's political standing and legislative agenda.
"We have the votes now ... as we speak," Representative John Larson, head of the ...More
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The California governor's race is on track to be the most expensive nonpresidential election in U.S. history, sparking a debate over money and influence that could become the campaign's defining issue.
Republican front-runner Meg Whitman, the billionaire former CEO of online auction house eBay ...More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Stewart Udall, interior secretary for presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson and a member of a major Democratic political family, has died at age 90, his family said on Saturday.
Udall, father of New Mexico Senator Tom Udall and brother of the late congressman and one-time presidential contender ...More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats in the House of Representatives said on Saturday they had secured enough support to pass a sweeping healthcare overhaul and would dump a controversial plan to avoid a direct vote on the Senate bill.
An upbeat House Democratic leader Steny Hoyer predicted victory in Sunday's vote ...More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama urged senators on Saturday to resist pressure to weaken a financial reform bill and called again for an independent consumer watchdog to help prevent future financial crises.
As healthcare reform reaches a make-or-break vote in the House of Representatives on Sunday, Obama used ...More
Madison, Wi (WSAU) Both Governor Jim Doyle and Lieutenant Governor Barbara Lawton are out of the state this weekend, leaving what seems like a vaccuum at the top of state government. Who's in charge? Doyle left for a 10-day trade mission to Italy and Tunisia Wednesday. Lawton didn't ...More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama urged lawmakers on Saturday to resist pressure to weaken a financial reform bill and called again for an independent consumer watchdog to help prevent future financial crises.
As healthcare reform reaches a make-or-break vote in the House of Representatives on Sunday, Obama used ...More
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. liberal grass-roots group ACORN is on the brink of bankruptcy and its leaders will hold a teleconference this weekend to discuss the group's future, The New York Times reported on its website on Friday.
Citing two leaders of the group, the Times reported ...More
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin offered hints he could support the United States on two key issues -- an arms pact and Iran -- after a meeting on Friday with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
An aide to Putin said a major nuclear weapons reduction pact between Russia and the ...More
