In the end, longtime Republican Senator Arlen Specter had no choice.
If he wanted to keep his Senate seat, he had to return to the Democratic Party he left early in his political career.
If he wanted to keep his sanity he had to get away from the rabid right wing that controls the Republican Party.
The president said the photo shoot near the Statue of Liberty was an inappropriate use of taxpayer dollars.
The confirmation of Kathleen Sebelius allows President Obama to fill the last vacancy in his cabinet with a seasoned politician who will take charge of the fight against swine flu.
The commission called for changes including limits on campaign contributions, the removal of loopholes in the way state contracts are granted and term limits for positions at the state capital.
Gov. Sarah Palin was likely to reject only $29 million of financing for the State Energy Program because she believed it to be tied to developing a statewide energy code.
The Supreme Court heard arguments in case that could give states more power in overseeing banks, which federal regulators oppose.
The worker bees of federal Washington — people like Mazzie Simmons of Waldorf, who commutes 30 miles to her desk as a retirement specialist at the Office of Personnel Management — don’t expect to hear high praise from the White House, or from anyone else, for that matter. “Nobody ever comes to …
It was March 4, 1933, and Franklin D. Roosevelt was being sworn in as president after his Democratic Party assumed control of the levers of power in a country deeply troubled by a historic economic collapse.
There has been nothing tentative about President Obama’s first 100 days in office. The defining characteristics of his presidency have been his appetite for leadership, the breadth of his ambitions and his determination to pass his programs in the face of united Republican opposition.
Reps. Michael N. Castle (Del.) and Fred Upton (Mich.) sat side by side in the House chamber during the final vote on the economic stimulus package, each exhausted by the barrage of rhetoric from Democrats and fellow Republicans.