The Obama White House, which has been late in submitting a federal budget four out of five years, on Thursday blamed the "sequester" crisis in part for failing to meet the deadline for submitting a spending plan this year. Published February 28 2013
Firebrand liberal film-maker Michael Moore implicitly called Justice Antonin Scalia a member of the Ku Klux Klan. Published February 27 2013
Sen. Joe Manchin released a short online video Wednesday in which he declared any notion that he supports some sort of gun confiscation measure "a bunch of crap." Published February 27 2013
House Republicans who consistently criticize President Obama's health care law seized on a tweet from a Democratic political strategist on Wednesday, arguing she's made their case for them about the perils of "Obamacare." Published February 27 2013
Sen. Marco Rubio welcomed the news Wednesday that the Obama administration is considering direct aid to the opposition forces in Syria, saying the United States must do what it can to make sure the rebels forces are on its side after President Bashar Assad is ousted. Published February 27 2013
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham and Milwaukee Police Chief Edward Flynn got into a heated exchange over the issue of gun prosecutions at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday, drawing applause from the audience and a rebuke from Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein. Published February 27 2013
The Senate Conservatives Fund announced Wednesday that it has made defeating Sen. Mark L. Pryor, Arkansas Democrat, its No. 1 priority in the 2014 election. Published February 27 2013
Senate Democrats hit a new milestone Wednesday — 1,400 days since they passed a federal budget. Published February 27 2013
A new poll shows four in 10 Americans believe — incorrectly — that President Obama's 2010 health care law provides benefits to illegal immigrants. Published February 27 2013
The fiscally conservative Club for Growth launched a new website Wednesday dedicated to holding congressional RINOs — "Republicans in Name Only" — accountable for what the group calls abandoning the principles of economic freedom and limited government. Published February 27 2013
President Obama is finally visiting Capitol Hill Wednesday, but not to negotiate with Republicans over looming budget cuts — instead he'll dedicate a statue of civil-rights pioneer Rosa Parks. Published February 27 2013
Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley are in a seemingly never-ending battle to lure — or keep — jobs and companies on their side of the Potomac River. Published February 26 2013
Grappling with unwelcome results of a revolution that he encouraged, President Obama told Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi in a phone call Tuesday that he has a responsibility to "protect the democratic principles" that Egyptians fought for. Published February 26 2013
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie announced Tuesday he wants to expand Medicaid enrollment in his state, making him the latest high-profile Republican to accept a key pillar of President Obama's health care law. Published February 26 2013
A spokeswoman for Sen. Chuck Grassley, Iowa Republican and ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, accused Democrats of playing games on gun control Tuesday by planning to dump a background check on the GOP at a Thursday committee meeting. Published February 26 2013
One congressman has offered an idea for where the White House could find some savings with the looming spending sequesters: Stop taking trips on Air Force One. Published February 26 2013
With no deal in sight to avoid $85 billion in automatic across-the-board federal spending cuts scheduled to kick in Friday, House Speaker John A. Boehner ramped up the blame game, telling the Capitol's other chamber it's time for them to move a certain body part. Published February 26 2013
West Virginia's state attorney general Tuesday called on President Obama to delay the implementation of his signature health care law, the latest in a chorus of Republicans arguing that slowing down the new law is a way to ease the looming crisis over sequester spending cuts. Published February 26 2013
The Senate Judiciary Committee is set to take up four measures on gun violence Thursday, including California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein's bill that would ban so-called assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines. Published February 25 2013
The federal government is facing massive furloughs beginning later this week, but it is still running help-wanted ads seeking workers to answer phones — at up to $81,000 a year — or to drive cars for the State Department, for as much as $26.45 an hour. Published February 25 2013
By Elaine Donnelly
Extending sexual misconduct to combat units
