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Lawmakers to get drone report before CIA hearing
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's choice to head the CIA faces a Senate Intelligence Committee confirmation hearing just hours after lawmakers are expected to receive a classified report...
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Senate panel to vote on Defense nominee Hagel
WASHINGTON (AP) — Chuck Hagel faces his first major hurdle in his bid to become the nation's defense secretary as a bitterly divided Senate Armed Services Committee pushes toward a vote on his...
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Senate panel approves Hagel for Pentagon chief
WASHINGTON (AP) — A bitterly divided Senate panel on Tuesday approved President Barack Obama's nomination of Chuck Hagel to be the nation's defense secretary in a rancorous session at which Republican...
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Lew signals support for tax code rewrite
WASHINGTON (AP) — Jacob Lew, President Barack Obama's nominee for Treasury secretary, pledged to work with Congress on a comprehensive overhaul of the tax code while urging lawmakers to avoid automatic...
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GOP senators may delay Hagel vote over Benghazi
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans have questioned Chuck Hagel's truthfulness and they've challenged his patriotism.Now they're threatening to stonewall his nomination to be President Barack Obama's...
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Senate GOP blocks Hagel vote for now
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans on Thursday blocked the nomination of former GOP senator Chuck Hagel as the nation's next defense secretary over unrelated questions about President Barack Obama's...
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Cruz's tactics boil Washington, but impress Texas
HOUSTON (AP) — Ted Cruz glanced at his black cowboy boots, beneath a silver Texas belt buckle, waiting for the admirers to stop clapping.His arrival had turned a drop-by at a Houston lumber yard into a...
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Intel committee to vote next week on CIA nominee
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Intelligence Committee is scheduled to vote early next week on John Brennan's nomination to be director of the CIA, the panel's leaders said Thursday.Brennan faces final...
View ArticleSenate committee set to vote on Obama's CIA choice
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Intelligence Committee is scheduled to vote on President Barack Obama's pick to lead the CIA after weeks of wrangling with the White House over access to top-secret...
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Senator uses old-style filibuster on CIA nominee
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Republican senator and tea party favorite from Kentucky used an old-style filibuster lasting nearly 13 hours to take control of the chamber and block Senate confirmation of John...
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Sen. Carl Levin will not seek re-election in 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Sen. Carl Levin announced Thursday he will not seek re-election in 2014, saying he wants to serve as Senate Armed Services chairman and an advocate for his home state of...
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After filibuster, Senate confirms Brennan for CIA
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate confirmed John Brennan to be CIA director Thursday after the Obama administration bowed to demands from Republicans blocking the nomination and stated explicitly there are...
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Obama expected to nominate Perez for Labor post
WASHINGTON (AP) — Seeking to fill yet another second-term Cabinet vacancy, President Barack Obama is set to nominate Thomas Perez, an assistant attorney general, to be the next secretary of labor, the...
View ArticleSerious problems persist in indigent legal defense
WASHINGTON (AP) — It is not the happiest of birthdays for the landmark Supreme Court decision that, a half-century ago, guaranteed a lawyer for criminal defendants who are too poor to afford one.A...
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Obama withdraws appeals court pick
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama withdrew his nomination of Caitlin Halligan to a federal appeals court Friday, handing a victory to Republicans in the Senate who twice blocked his pick for the...
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Too liberal for Justice?
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court on Friday revived part of a lawsuit by two attorneys who applied for prestigious Justice Department jobs during the George W. Bush administration and alleged...
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Pritzker to Commerce
President Barack Obama on Thursday chose two old friends with business executive experience for top posts on his economic team, naming longtime fundraiser Penny Pritzker to the Commerce Department and...
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Obama to name ex-Bush aide to head FBI
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is prepared to nominate James Comey, a former Bush administration official with bipartisan credentials, as the next FBI director. In a possible warning sign,...
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Gotcha Guide: Four types of Washington investigation
WASHINGTON (AP) — Most of what Americans know about their government's crimes, misdeeds and foul-ups comes from the government itself. Washington's investigation machine never quits.Thousands of...
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More top Obama appointees using secret email accounts
WASHINGTON (AP) — Some of President Barack Obama's political appointees, including the Cabinet secretary for the Health and Human Services Department, are using secret government email accounts they...
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