Sen. McCain blasts Hanford spending as wasteful
Seattle Times - 51 minutes agoSen. John McCain put four projects in Washington on his list of 100 he sees wasting federal stimulus money.
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Sen. John McCain put four projects in Washington on his list of 100 he sees wasting federal stimulus money.
LITTLE ROCK—A town hall meeting featuring former Republican presidential nominee John McCain and two other GOP lawmakers has been canceled.
WASHINGTON----Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed a complaint with the Senate Ethics Committee against Senator John McCain for using National Republican Senatorial Committee funds to pay for robocalls in five other senators’ home states, urging passage of his motion to send healthcare legislation back to the Senate Finance Committee.
A long-running effort to allow the import of lower-cost prescription drugs faces a new twist — President Barack Obama's administration is raising safety concerns that could effectively scuttle it, even though Obama backed the plan as a senator.
Republican lawmakers critical of efforts to battle climate change vowed to fly next week to the Copenhagen summit to undercut President Barack Obama's promises of strong US action.
President Barack Obama nominated Larry Persily, a former aide to ex-Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, on Wednesday to be federal coordinator for Alaska Natural Gas Transportation Projects, the White House said.
Cleaning up the way Washington works and providing a transparent, open government was one of President Obama's key pledges upon taking office.
In asking Congress for a second major stimulus effort in a speech at the Brookings Institution in Washington, President Obama showed a new partisan edge
Former Presidential Candidate Senator John McCain won't make his way to Springdale this weekend.
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sens. Tom Coburn and John McCain released a report today mocking 100 projects funded with federal stimulus money, including some in Oklahoma.Coburn, R-Muskogee, and McCain, R-Arizona, have attacked federal spending in previous reports. This is the second to question how some of the $787 billion in federal stimulus money is being spent."No family in America would support many of ...
Facing record job losses and record budget deficits, President Obama proposed a series of steps Tuesday that he said could reduce pink slips and red ink simultaneously.
The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said Tuesday that he is confident the United States can begin reducing U.S. forces there in July 2011, but military conditions will determine when and how quickly troops will leave.
The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said Tuesday he is confident the U.S. can begin reducing forces in July 2011, after a reassessment.
Facing record job losses and record budget deficits, President Obama proposed a series of steps Tuesday that he said could reduce pink slips.
Dec. 8, 2009 - Sens. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., and John McCain, R-Ariz., are seen in an elevator following the tabling of an abortion amendment on Capitol Hill in Washington.
News outlets are reporting tonight that the 10 senators tapped to negotiate an alternative to or compromise on the Senate health reform bill's public option have dropped the idea of a government-run health insurance plan altogether