Topic - Clinton Administration

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  HOLTZ-EAKIN: Get moving on spectrum auction

  As congressional gridlock continues, there is a lot more at stake than payroll taxes, unemployment benefits, doctors' payments, improving job growth and a better budget outlook. Too often good policy gets forgotten amid financial decisions. Unfortunately, spectrum auctions are treated as merely a budgetary means to pay for other programs.

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  ELLIG: Washington budget deals: Kitten or cobra?

  The year's myriad high-stakes budget battles - and most of the commentary about them - have focused almost wholly on the game of "Deal or No Deal." The ostensible winner was whichever party got the most of what it wanted while giving up the least.

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  Ex-Iran Guard commander visits White House with Iraq leader

  A former commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, which the FBI says played a role in a 1996 terrorist attack that killed 19 U.S. servicemen, accompanied Iraq's prime minister to the White House on Monday, attending an event at which President Obama trumpeted the end of the Iraq War.

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  U.S. eases sanctions on Sudanese oil industry

  The Treasury Department has amended economic sanctions against Sudan by allowing U.S. companies to invest in South Sudan's oil market, which has been dominated by China, India and Malaysia.

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  Argentine grandmothers seek babies stolen during 'dirty war'

  Members of Argentina's former military junta are being tried on charges of stealing babies from prisoners and giving them away during the South American country's "dirty war" of the 1970s and '80s.

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  Inside Politics

  A key senator says the Federal Aviation Administration could face another shutdown because lawmakers haven't resolved a labor issue that is holding up passage of a long-term funding bill for the agency.

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  LYONS: A matter of honor

  On Oct. 7, 1997, during the Clinton administration, the People's Mujahedeen of Iran (POMI/MEK) was designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) by then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. The MEK represents the main opposition group to the Iranian theocracy and has been the source of key intelligence relating to Iran's secret underground nuclear sites. According to a senior Clinton administration official, the designation of the MEK as a terrorist organization was intended as a "goodwill gesture" to Tehran and its newly elected "moderate" President Mohammad Khatami. Such a goodwill gesture coming on the heels of the Khobar Towers bombing in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, where we had proof of Iran's involvement, resulting in the killing of 19 U.S. servicemen and the wounding of more than 500 was unbelievable.

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  Solyndra hired Rice consulting firm

  Fast running out of money just two years after winning a half-billion dollars in federal loan guarantees, solar panel maker Solyndra LLC this spring looked overseas to India in hopes of finding new business to turn the company around.

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  SAUERBREY: Uncle Sam shakes down banks to pay for fiasco he triggered

  When the government is directly responsible for irresponsible behavior, should it then sue over the consequences?

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  Clinton: Obama's got a good jobs plan

  Former President Bill Clinton said on Sunday that the White House jobs plan will work if Congress passes it, and he downplayed suggestions that President Obama's chances of being re-elected are in jeopardy.

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  JAFFE: Counterproductive craziness at federal agency

  Presidents Ford and Reagan and Rep. Gabrielle Giffords were all attacked by people with untreated serious mental illness. In spite of the risk to public safety and homeland security posed by letting some people with serious mental illness go untreated, the federal agency charged with helping them is instead working to see they don't get the treatments they need. That's one reason the newly formed debt-reduction supercommittee should eliminate the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). The other is money: The agency receives $3 billion annually.

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  Undersecretary nominee at State Department returns to revolving door

  For those seeking an example of the revolving door between government and the private sector at the State Department, one need look no further than President Obama's recent nominee for the position of undersecretary for political affairs.

• NCAA's 'death penalty' could be option for Miami

  NCAA President Mark Emmert says he's willing to back up his tough talk on punishing rule-breakers _ even using the "death penalty" as a deterrent.

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  NCAA's 'death penalty' could be option for Miami

  NCAA President Mark Emmert says he's willing to back up his tough talk on punishing rule-breakers — even using the "death penalty" as a deterrent.

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  PRUDEN: The failure of liberal gods

  The gods of the liberals - "progressives," as they insist on calling themselves this season - are failing all over the place. Restless natives are rioting in London. Peasants are getting rich selling 90-proof Oolong in Washington. The elites are "unsettled," as elites always are, in a lot of places between.

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