David A. Paterson, who had vowed to force senators to take up the issue before their summer break, will now wait until September, when he probably will call a special session.
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the civil rights organization, is seeking to remove the president of its Los Angeles chapter in response to his support of same-sex marriage.
The proposal, a clear expression of Democrats’ perceived mandate, calls for a surtax on individuals earning at least $280,000, but it faces hurdles in both chambers of Congress.
ACCRA (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama told Africans on Saturday that Western aid must be matched by good governance and urged them to take greater responsibility for stamping out war, corruption and disease plaguing the continent.
How can the housing market recover, economists ask, if so few buyers qualify for mortgages under rigid new rules?
Compromises made to win passage of a climate-change bill have infuriated and disappointed environmental activists.
President Obama, who arrived in Ghana on Friday, said that he had appealed to G-8 leaders to donate more to the food aid program for the developing world.
The Treasury secretary testified before members of Congress that the administration would impose tougher rules on instruments like credit-default swaps.
All eyes were on the Treasury secretary, who on Friday, testified about the Obama administration’s proposal to regulate the free-wheeling market for financial derivatives.