David R. Sands

Inside Politics

Given her own recent statements and the national political landscape, "it's tempting for some Beltway players to presume [Secretary of State Hillary Rodham] Clinton's greatest prospects are behind her," writes David Paul Kuhn of RealClearPolitics.com. "Tempting, but hardly assured."

October 28, 2009

GOP provides backing for Obama’s war effort

Facing fire from his own party over the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan, President Obama is getting cover from an unlikely source: Republicans.

September 12, 2009

Florida’s Gov. Crist accused of ‘cronyism’

Florida Gov. Charlie Crist on Friday selected his closest political confidant to serve out the term of retiring Republican Sen. Mel Martinez for 16 months, until the Republican governor himself hopes to take over the seat.

August 29, 2009

Political columnist Robert Novak has died at age 78

UPDATED: Robert D. "Bob" Novak, for many decades one of conservatives' most trusted and beloved political columnists, died at his Washington home early Tuesday after a long illness.

August 18, 2009

Famed lobbyist Anne Wexler dead

Anne Wexler, a former Carter administration official long considered one of the most powerful and well-connected Democratic lobbyists in Washington, died Friday after a long battle with cancer. She was 79.

August 8, 2009

Famed lobbyist Anne Wexler dies of cancer

Anne Wexler, a former Carter administration official long considered one of the most powerful and well-connected Democratic lobbyists in Washington, passed away Friday after a long battle with cancer. She was 79.

August 7, 2009

Obama calls officer in bid to calm flap

President Obama on Friday spoke directly with the Boston police sergeant he had criticized in the arrest of a black Harvard professor in a bid to cool an escalating racial controversy that the president admitted he had helped fuel.

July 25, 2009

Obama calls Crowley; tries to end Gates storm

President Obama Friday called the Boston police sergeant who arrested a black Harvard professor in a bid to clear the air in what has become a growing national racial controversy.

July 24, 2009

GOP lawmaker: Dems shut down debate in House

A Republican lawmaker accused House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and congressional Democrats of "shutting down the process" in the House of Representatives to block his effort to investigate the national community organizing group ACORN.

June 22, 2009

House votes against releasing terror photos

In a rare victory for minority Republicans, the House of Representatives Thursday went on record against releasing photographs of prisoner abuse by U.S. military and security forces after the September 11 attacks.

June 11, 2009

Pelosi demands probe of nuke leak

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday called for an official investigation into the accidental posting on the Internet of sensitive details on hundreds of U.S. nuclear weapons-related facilities, laboratories, research sites and reactors, including the location of fuel for nuclear bombs.

June 3, 2009

Steele urges GOP to focus on the future

Embattled Republican National Committee Chairman Michael S. Steele plans to tell a special gathering of state party officials Tuesday that the party is through apologizing for past mistakes and will take the initiative as it tries to rebound with voters.

May 19, 2009

Crist reportedly set for Senate race

Florida Gov. Charlie Crist is reportedly set to announce his plans to run for the Senate next year, giving the Republicans their best shot at holding the seat now held by retiring Republican Sen. Mel Martinez.

May 11, 2009

Absentee ballots to decide N.Y. race

The first electoral clash of the age of Obama finished in a dead heat, with uncounted absentee ballots now to decide the fate of the intensely watched race for an open House seat in upstate New York.

April 1, 2009

N.Y. House race in spotlight

Upstate New York's 20th Congressional District is home to the famed Saratoga Race Track, but it's been a long time since a local stakes race has attracted this much national attention.

March 31, 2009

Grassley: Budget freeze to stop ‘socialism’

The top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee on Monday said an across-the-board freeze on federal spending is needed to reel in President Obama´s massive budget plan, signaling a more active Republican stance in fighting the president's agenda.

March 24, 2009

Grassley: Obama budget step toward ‘socialism’

President Obama's budget of tax hikes to pay for massive new spending programs is a "move toward socialism" that will stifle a creative free market, the top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee said in an interview Monday.

March 23, 2009

Tax code escalates as Dems’ tool

For the Obama administration and its Democratic allies in Congress, the power to tax is increasingly becoming the power to get their way on policy matters big and small.

March 23, 2009

House passes 90 percent bonus tax

Working at breakneck speed, the House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday to impose a 90 percent tax on bonuses given to top officials at companies that received tens of billions of dollars of taxpayer bailout money.

March 19, 2009

Republicans slam WH handling of AIG

Republican lawmakers Thursday launched some unusually direct attacks on President Obama for his handling of the economy and the furor involving bonuses paid to bailed-out insurance giant American International Group.

March 19, 2009