It is an old saying in Washington: "The president proposes, but Congress disposes."
Congress might well dispose of the president's plan for NASA, but if all lawmakers do...
WASHINGTON — As the night follows the day, the VAT cometh.
With the passage of Obamacare, creating a vast new middle-class entitlement, a national sales tax of the kind ...
WASHINGTON — No one waited longer for the passage of health care reform than John Dingell, so it was only right that no one smiled more broadly than the 83-year-old cong...
President Barack Obama signed historic health care reform legislation on Tuesday morning. But anyone who thought that would quiet the rancorous debate quickly was disabu...
When it comes to free speech, nutty reverends can sometimes make good law.
At least that is the hope now that the U.S. Supreme Court has taken a case for next term invol...
The current generation of kindergartners to 12th-graders — those born between 1991 and 2004 — has no memory of a time before Google. But although these students are far ...
Democratic leaders in Congress got what they wanted Sunday night: House passage of a massive health bill the Senate approved on Christmas Eve. Muscling this bill to Pres...
Last week by voice vote, the Senate unanimously approved a measure to reduce the infamous 100-1 disparity in federal mandatory minimum prison sentences for possession of...
WASHINGTON — Barack Obama hopes his famous health care victory will mark him as a transformative president. History, however, may judge it to have been his missed opport...
HARRISBURG — Incumbent Pennsylvania state lawmakers will be making themselves seen in their home districts over the next couple of months as they campaign to be returned...
