.. until the attorney generals opinion is rendered, Manchin said.
A delay in naming a replacement for Byrd, a Democrat, could complicate Democratic efforts to pass the overhaul of financial regulations, an important priority for President Barack Obama.
Democrats are several votes short of the 60 they need to advance legislation in the 100-seat chamber.
Without a reliable [...]
Obama told a fundraiser in Miami that hes cut taxes, contrary to the claims of protesters.
“You would think theyd be saying thank you,” he said.
At that, many in the crowd at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts stood and yelled, “Thank you!”
The fundraiser was one of two Obama held after a speech at [...]
President Barack Obama and other critics say the courts decision to let corporations spend their money to directly influence elections opened the floodgates to foreign involvement. In last weeks address to Congress and the nation, Obama asserted the court had allowed special interests, “including foreign corporations, to spend without limit on our elections.”
That was a [...]
Arturo Valenzuela, the U.S. assistant secretary of state for the Western Hemisphere, said the election was fair and transparent but that Honduras must make further efforts to restore democracy after President Manuel Zelaya was expelled in June.
“While the election is a necessary step, it is not a sufficient one,” Valenzuela said. “Its not the last [...]
The White House says Obamas answer on whether to expand the U.S. fighting force in Afghanistan by as much as 60 percent will be announced “in the coming weeks,” the same vague timetable it has offered for much of the fall.
Obama has brushed off criticism that he is taking too long to decide whether to [...]
“We will do our best through all possible means to eliminate this dark stain,” said Karzai, according to an Associated Press translation of his remarks in a news conference. Obama told reporters he had urged Karzai to make “a much more serious effort to eradicate corruption,” after the Afghan presidents re-election was confirmed yesterday following [...]
AL HUNT: Afghan President Hamid Karzai agreed to a runoff presidential election after the UN said the first vote was marred by widespread fraud.
With us now to discuss these developments is Afghanistans ambassador to the United States, and joining me is [...]
Once viewed as a rising star of the conservative right with presidential potential, Ensign confessed in June to having an affair with campaign staffer, Cindy Hampton, the wife of a top aide in his Senate office.
Since then, revelations of nearly $100,000 paid to the couple by Ensigns parents and claims by Doug Hampton, his mistress [...]
Kennedy, 77, who died late Tuesday night according to a statement from his family, had been a U.S. senator since November, 1962. His brother, the late President John F. Kennedy, held the seat from 1953 to December 1960.
The usual [...]
“It is serious and it is deteriorating,” Admiral Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said on CNNs “State of the Union” program yesterday. “The Taliban insurgency has gotten better, more sophisticated. Their tactics, just in my recent visits out there and talking with our troops, certainly indicate that.” [...]