Though protocol holds that Congressional leaders travel to the White House to negotiate legislation, President Obama broke from tradition on Tuesday by spending nearly three hours at the Capitol.
The Veterans Affairs Department agreed Tuesday to pay a total of $20 million to veterans for exposing them to possible identity theft in 2006 by losing their personal information.
A report by the American Society of Civil Engineers assigned a D grade to the nation’s infrastructure and estimated that it would take $2.2 trillion to bring it into a state of good repair.
Top federal regulators told a Senate committee that they had investigated Bernard L. Madoff’s brokerage firm in the past, but found no evidence of a vast fraud.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democratic President Barack Obama struggled on Tuesday to placate Republicans in Congress who insist his $825 billion plan for reviving the troubled U.S. economy should include bigger tax cuts and less spending.
A portion of Blago’s recorded telephone conversations were played publicly for the first time Tuesday.
Senate Dems have made final adjustments to the bill.
Well, it wasn’t exactly a match made in heaven.
VIDEO: Gibbs and takes: Tuesday edition
Jill Biden returned to teaching today as an adjunct professor at Northern Virginia Community College.