Barring any unforeseen bombshells, the former Harvard law school dean, who has served in the last two Democratic administrations, will likely win approval with bipartisan support.
While President Barack Obama has faced a Republican wall of opposition much of this election year, at least a few members of the opposition party are expected to join Democrats [...]
The House of Representatives passed the bill 408-8 and sent it to President Barack Obama for signing into law. The Senate had approved it 99-0 earlier in the day.
Congress wants to pressure Tehran into curbing its nuclear program, which Washington suspects is aimed at making a bomb.
U.S. lawmakers from both parties have been pushing for [...]
S. citizens to speak and associate freely against the governments efforts to fight terrorism.
In a victory for the Obama administration, the justices voted, 6-3, to reverse a ruling by a U.S. appeals court that declared parts of the law unconstitutionally vague.
The law barring material support was first adopted in 1996 and strengthened by the USA [...]
President Obama has spoken out against the law because he thinks that the federal government should be determining immigration policy, she said according to a transcript posted on the State Department website.
And the Justice Department, under his direction, will be bringing a lawsuit against the act, she told NTN24, which is headquartered in Colombia.
Both the [...]
The deal would require banks to isolate their swaps desks in separate affiliates, which would require the banks to raise new capital and deprive them of profits they get from dealing. But it would allow their parent holding companies to retain the value of the operations.
But negotiators remained at odds over another sticking point how [...]
Cole tried to fend off Republican questions about the use of military commissions for terrorism suspects and when they should be given legal rights such as the ability to remain silent under questioning and be given a defense lawyer.
Senator Jeff Sessions, the committees top Republican, seized on an opinion piece Cole wrote in 2002 that [...]
S. chief of BP, top executives from four major oil companies distanced themselves from BP and its massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill by defending their practices and explaining how they could have prevented the catastrophe.
Facing a hostile room, the oil company executives were hoping to head off potentially costly new regulations by detailing their [...]
Instead, they ordered regulators to study the issue and take action only if they think it is necessary.
The credit-rating industry has been widely criticized for assigning overly rosy ratings to dubious debt offerings that brought Wall Street to its knees during the 2007-2009 financial crisis.
A hoax was perpetrated on the American public and the world [...]
Democrats released a 60-second television ad highlighting Republican vows to repeal the healthcare reform bill, which promises to be a flashpoint in the November election battle for control of Congress.
Republicans want to take it all away, the ads narrator warns of the overhaul, passed by Democrats in March over unified Republican opposition. Tell Republicans we [...]
The measure that goes into effect at the end of July has drawn criticism and prompted boycotts of the state.
Arizonas new law has pushed the immigration debate into the political foreground and rebooted a drive by Obama and Senate Democrats to overhaul federal immigration laws.
Brewer told CNN that it was important to sit down [...]