Topic - Clinton

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  House passes bill giving president line-item veto

  The House has taken the unusual move of agreeing to cede some of its highly guarded purse string power to the White House, voting Wednesday to give the president a modified line-item veto on spending bills.

• CURL: Obama's made-up jobless numbers

  When it comes to the unemployment rate, it's nice to be president.

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  GORDON: Obama's deadly new PR firm

  The dramatic rescue of an American aid worker and her Danish colleague in Somalia by Navy commandos was a terrific encore to the killing of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan nine months ago. However, all the White House-driven publicity for both events has helped turn the once-secret SEAL Team 6 into a household term, with likely negative consequences.

• LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Don't count Gingrich out

  I have watched and listened to numerous "media experts" on TV say former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is unelectable as president of the United States. I'm an Independent and I see how both the Republicans and Democrats are out to get Mr. Gingrich. For me, that's a plus.

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  Obama's State of the Union will reflect state of the election

  Anyone wondering whether President Obama's State of the Union address Tuesday will focus more on policy or the politics of his re-election should consider the trip he has planned immediately afterward: visits to five battleground states in three days.

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  Public employees union heaps cash into GOP ad attacks on Romney

  An unlikely combatant has jumped into the big-money battle between independent groups running ads weighing in on the Republican presidential primary: a national union representing public employees.

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  Assad's fall could solve Iraqi weapons mystery

  If Syria's regime falls, the U.S. will be in a better position to answer one of the lingering questions from the long Iraq War: Did Baghdad ship weapons of mass destruction components to Syria before the 2003 American-led invasion?

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  Gingrich, Santorum dueling for conservative mantle

  Newt Gingrich and presidential rival Rick Santorum are slugging it out for the "anybody-but Romney" title ahead of the critical South Carolina primary on Saturday.

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  LAMBRO: Obama's tax-rate demagoguery

  Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney estimates the federal tax rate he pays on most of his income is about 15 percent because it comes from his past investments.

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  Romney attacks, Gingrich parries ahead of S.C. primary

  Seeking to blunt the momentum Newt Gingrich has in South Carolina, Mitt Romney's campaign on Wednesday accused the former House speaker of being too "chaotic" and "undisciplined" to be able to lead the GOP and the country at large.

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  Israelis increase trust in Obama

  Rabbi Dov Hayun invoked the Jewish prohibition on mixing milk and meat products to describe one common view here of President Obama.

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  WALKER: We're lucky Tony's wife shared him with us

  When Newt Gingrich was House speaker and Tony was his press secretary, he brought warmth, humor and intelligence into the policy discussions on Capitol Hill. He was the speaker's spokesman, but much more than that. He helped to fashion the projects and policies that he later would go to the podium to explain. When he argued his viewpoint, he was clear and firm.

• McCURRY: Class act, saved my job

  Many people play-act at bipartisanship in Washington, but Tony Blankley was the real deal - when he needed to be. I suspect he preferred the clever baton he wielded to orchestrate feisty attacks on Democrats in Congress and on my then-boss President Clinton when we engaged each other in the 1990s. But when that music had to stop and serious business needed doing, Tony would stop by the West Wing or give a call and we would find some way to harmonize.

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  Bus crashes in Montana; 2 reported dead

  A bus crashed Sunday on an icy interstate highway in southwestern Montana, killing at least two people and sending more than two dozen to area hospitals, officials said.

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  Three months on, 'don't ask' repeal gets mixed review

  Three months after President Obama lifted the ban on homosexuals serving openly in the military, Pentagon officials say heterosexual troops are adjusting well to the new policy. Critics, however, say they are just following orders, and a recent survey showed many troops reporting a rise in tension.

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