GOP To Drop Resolution Renaming Dems 'Socialist'
Updated: 4:09 PM Republican Party leaders are dropping a proposal aimed at changing the name of the Democratic Party.
Updated: 4:09 PM Republican Party leaders are dropping a proposal aimed at changing the name of the Democratic Party.
Updated: 9:04 AM The Obama administration is actively considering creation of a regulatory commission to protect consumers of financial products such as credit cards and mortgages.
Posted: 8:48 AM Tightening oversight of Wall Street's credit rating agencies is on the minds of lawmakers who want to protect investors.
Posted: 2:20 PM There's word that Senate Democrats won't provide the funds requested to close the Guantanamo Bay prison in January.
Posted: 2:15 PM The Senate has voted to allow people to carry loaded guns in national parks and wildlife refuges.
Posted: 12:13 PM have only had initial discussions with the White House about whether gay troops should be open about their sexuality.
Posted: 12:07 PM President Barack Obama has met with a leading candidate to head NASA.
Updated: 7:29 PM More help is now on the way for laid-off Wichita area aviation workers.
Posted: 11:13 AM A federal appeals court says the office that has records about millions of possibly missing e-mails from the Bush White House does not have to make them public.
Posted: 11:07 AM The U.S. Census says field staffers are about three-quarters finished with a door-to-door trek verifying addresses for the 2010 population census.
Posted: 9:51 AM President Barack Obama plans to propose the first-ever national emission limits for cars and trucks today along with new average mileage requirements.
Posted: 9:36 AM It's the toughest question in the health care debate — how to pay for expanding coverage to nearly 50 million uninsured people.
Updated: 4:32 PM A proposed climate bill has the backing of several key Democrats from industrial and oil states.
Updated: 3:20 PM Officials familiar with the plans say President Barack Obama will announce new fuel efficiency standards tomorrow meant to restrict greenhouse gases spewing from cars' tailpipes.
Posted: 2:24 PM Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says the government should not impose caps on executive pay in the financial sector. However, he said Monday government can set compensation standards to curb excessive risk-taking by financial institutions.
Updated: 11:07 AM President Barack Obama has selected New York City's health commissioner to head the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Posted: 11:04 AM Relations between President Barack Obama and U.S. corporate leaders have grown tense in recent weeks. Business groups are bristling over his sharp rebukes of lenders and multinational companies in particular.
Posted: 4:55 PM The CIA says it has denied a request by former Vice President Dick Cheney to declassify secret internal government memos that detail whether valuable intelligence was gained from the use of harsh interrogation techniques under the Bush administration.
Posted: 4:38 PM President Barack Obama says he likes the idea of increasing income limits for those receiving Social Security disability payments, but also says it costs money.
Posted: 4:20 PM President Barack Obama says he expects to see more consensus between Democrats and Republicans but that first the GOP must realize Americans "want results, not bickering."
Posted: 4:18 PM House Republican leader John Boehner (BAY'-nur) is dismissing the House speaker's account of what she was told about interrogation techniques used on suspected terrorists.
Posted: 4:02 PM President Barack Obama says if he were building the health care system from scratch, a single-payer system would be the best approach. But he says his goal is to improve the current system.
Posted: 3:53 PM Sen. Arlen Specter says the "prospects are pretty good" for a compromise on legislation making it easier for workers to form unions.
Updated: 3:25 PM Defense Secretary Robert Gates is defending his plans to trim more than a billion dollars from the planned system to build a broad missile shield for the U.S. and its allies.
