Displaying items 49-60 of 864
» View wsbt.com items only
< Previous
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11-72
Next >
-
Republican senators boycott vote on EPA nominee
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans boycotted a committee vote Thursday on President Obama's nomination of Gina McCarthy to head the Environmental Protection Agency, drawing accusations of obstructionism from Democrats. Republicans on the Senate...
Tags: John Barrasso, Environmental Politics, Environmental Pollution, White House, U.S. Senate
-
John David Dyche: Grimes makes her case for U.S. Senate run
If Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes, a Democrat, decides to run against incumbent Republican Mitch McConnell for the U. S. Senate next year, her announcement might go something like this ... if she is completely candid. The scene: a...Tags: Ronald Reagan, Gun Control, Lawyers, U.S. Senate, Interior Policy
-
For Obama, 2014 is his number
WASHINGTON -- Thirty-one months ago Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell affronted the media and other custodians of propriety by saying something common-sensical. On Oct. 23, 2010, he said: "The single most important thing we want to achieve is for...
Tags: Immigration, Gun Control, Washington, DC, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Mitt Romney
-
Senate Republicans stonewall Obama's EPA nominee
WASHINGTON – Senate Republicans boycotted a committee vote Thursday morning on President Obama’s nomination of Gina McCarthy to head the Environmental Protection Agency, prompting accusations of obstructionism from Democrats and calls to...
Tags: Gina McCarthy, Environmental Issues, Environmental Politics, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Politics
-
Perez vote delayed as confirmation fight intensifies
WASHINGTON -- A Senate committee vote on Labor Secretary nominee Tom Perez was postponed hours before it was set to take place Wednesday, highlighting what appears to be a growing partisan fight over the confirmation of the former Maryland official. ...
Tags: Parties and Movements, Lamar Alexander, Benjamin L. Cardin, Labor Legislation, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013)
-
Ed Page On Facebook: Should Obama Press To Close Guantanamo Prison?
The following is an abridged conversation from www.facebook.com/edpagecourant. Is President Obama right to press once again to close the prison for purported terrorist combatants at Guantanamo? Mark Pappa: Close it and turn them over to Sheriff Joe in...Tags: Prisons, Politics, Trials, Terrorism, Unrest, Conflicts and War
-
Gabrielle Giffords' story a different kind of profile in courage
Gabrielle Giffords received a Profile in Courage award this weekend at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston. The award is fitting, though she is displaying a different kind of courage than was celebrated by the late president in his 1957 best-selling...
Tags: John F. Kennedy, Parties and Movements, Gun Control, Mary L. Landrieu, Gabrielle Giffords
-
Obama's 2nd-term blues?
Was President Barack Obama really joking at Saturday's White House Correspondents' Association dinner? Or was he showing, as I suspect, early signs of the second-term blues? It's fashionable for critics — especially if they didn't get invited...
Tags: Rush Limbaugh, Gun Control, Correspondents (music group), Entertainment, The Washington Post
-
Federal education cuts via 'sequester' will hurt Lincoln County's students
ben@theinteriorjournal.comIt's a television scene familiar to most of us over 20 years old: Wile E. Coyote buys himself an ACME catapult and assembles it, aiming a huge, red rock to land on a black "X" where he anticipates the elusive Roadrunner will pass by. As Coyote lies in...Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Politics, U.S. Congress, Lobbying, Harold Rogers
-
How a bill becomes slaw -- an autopsy of gun-control legislation in Washington
Change of SubjectWednesday's print column Before we move off the issue of gun control — and it’s dead for now, believe me, for reasons this column will make clear — let’s take a close look at just how something as popular as...... -
John David Dyche: Democrat hijinks helped McConnell and Paul
Contributing ColumnistLast week was a good one for Kentucky’s U. S. Senators. Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul dominated the news. Despite hostile media’s best efforts to portray recent events as somehow damaging to the ubiquitous Republican duo, both men benefitted...Tags: Howard University, Parties and Movements, Washington, DC, Religious Conflicts, Religion and Belief
-
Sandy Hook Mother Pleads For New Gun Laws In Obama Weekly Address
The Hartford CourantDelivering the weekly White House address in place of President Barack Obama, the mother of a child killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings said the nation needs new gun laws "before our tragedy becomes your tragedy." Francine Wheeler,...Tags: Gun Control, Washington, DC, John Boehner, White House, U.S. Senate
May 9, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
May 10, 2013
|Story| AM News
May 9, 2013
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
May 9, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
May 8, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
May 7, 2013
|Story| Hartford Courant
May 6, 2013
|Column| Allentown Morning Call
May 1, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
May 1, 2013
|Story| Interior Journal
Apr 23, 2013
| Chicago Tribune
Apr 19, 2013
|Story| AM News
Apr 13, 2013
|Story| Hartford Courant
Original site for Mitch McConnell topic gallery.