Coalition For Fiscal & National Security launched an ad blitz Wednesday calling on Congress to stabilize the national debt. The letter features a number of famous signatories, including former Secretaries of State Madeleine Albright, Henry Kissinger, James Baker and George Shultz, former Defense Secretaries Robert Gates, Frank Carlucci and Harold...
Politico notes that, with the final numbers in, both Team Obama and Team Romney raised more than $1 billion - “Obama: $1.123 billion, Romney: $1.019 billion. That’s the final fundraising tally in the most expensive presidential election ever, according to reports filed Thursday with the FEC by the campaigns and...
Former House majority leader Dick Armey (R-TX) agreed to resign as chairman of the tea party group FreedomWorks in exchange for $8 million in consulting fees, a confidential contract shows. Armey left the group because of an internal split over the direction of the organization.
Nearly two years after Wall Street waged a successful campaign to keep consumer advocate (now Senator-elect) Elizabeth Warren, D-MA, from running the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, she has been tapped to serve on the Senate Banking Committee, making her one of the top Wall Street watchdogs on the Hill, Bloomberg...
Former Sen. Bob Dole’s presence on the Senate floor to help pass ratification of the U.N. disabilities treaty is still the buzz of the Capitol. The Republican from Kansas, in a wheelchair and accompanied by his wife, former Sen. Elizabeth Dole, came to the floor before the vote began, as...
By a 98-0 margin, the Senate on Tuesday passed a sweeping defense bill authorizing $631 billion for Pentagon programs. Before the Pentagon can get its check, however, lawmakers must resolve some outstanding differences between the Senate bill and the version the House passed in May. The White House has already...
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