James E Clyburn

WASHINGTON -- Maryland Rep. Chris Van Hollen, locked out of pursuing a higher leadership role in this Congress, formally requested another term as the top-ranking Democrat on the House Budget Committee in a letter to his colleagues Tuesday. Van Hollen,...

President Barack Obama’s re-election means that, for the next four years, the face of the Democratic Party will be its vigorous 51-year-old president.  Beyond Obama, however, the party has an increasingly geriatric leadership that is blocking...

Is there, or should there ever be, a point when a state is no longer penalized for its discriminatory past? Not according to the Department of Justice, which recently rejected a South Carolina law that would have required voters to show a valid photo...

A payroll tax cut package engineered by House Speaker John A. Boehner was overwhelmingly approved by Republicans despite a veto threat from President Obama, escalating a year-end showdown over extending the benefit for 160 million American workers....

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Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and former Gov. Haley Barbour, R-Miss., will assess the primary results on CBS' "Face the Nation." The program starts at 10:30 a.m. on WKMG-Channel 6. A roundtable discussion brings together John Dickerson of CBS, Joe Klein of...

The official name for the group of 12 U.S. House and Senate members charged with finding “at least” $1.5 trillion in cuts to the federal deficit by Thanksgiving is the Joint Committee on Deficit Reduction. Unofficially, the group usually is called the...

CBS' "Face the Nation" looks at the Republican field of presidential candidates. The guests include Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.; Gov. Haley Barbour, R-Miss.; Gov. Martin O'Malley, D-Md.; and candidate Jon Huntsman. The program starts at 10:30 a.m. on...

NBC's "Meet the Press" will talk to Gov. Chris Christie, R-N.J.; Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I.; and Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va. The program starts at 9 a.m. on WESH-Channel 2. A roundtable discussion will feature the BBC's Katty Kay and two New York Times staffers,...

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) has named the final three members of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction -- known in some circles as the "super committee" -- and they're all current or former members of the Democratic...

Princeton's Cornel West, one of the most famous black intellectuals in America, says that President Obama is afraid of "free black men." Because of Obama's atypical upbringing, West says, "when he meets these independent black folk who have a history of...