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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.
In asking Congress for a second major stimulus effort in a speech at the Brookings Institution in Washington, the President shows 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
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama’s revised strategy for Afghanistan “absolutely” will succeed, the U.S. commander in the war-torn country said as he sought to allay congressional concerns.
The U.S. general in charge of the Afghanistan war assured lawmakers Tuesday that an additional 30,000 troops, combined with changes in the overall war strategy , would trigger a demonstrable change on the ground before U.S. forces start to come home in 18 months.
Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., has inserted himself into the middle of the inflamed partisan debate over health care, raising questions among Democrats about his motives, his ego and his fickle allegiance to the Democratic Party, which forgave him after he supported Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., for president.
Questioned by skeptical lawmakers, the U.S. general running the war in Afghanistan said Tuesday he did not get as many troops as he wanted and must work under a schedule he did not recommend, but he insisted the Obama administration's revamped strategy is the best way to win.
Republican senators said Tuesday the nearly $1 million in stimulus money being spent to study the division of labor among ants and the $400,000 spent to catalog Buffalo, N.Y., residents' drinking and drug habits are proof that President Obama's $787 billion economic recovery program is filled with waste. Sens. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma and John McCain of Arizona released a report detailing 100 ...
