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Lawmakers question VA's plans to hire more staff

Lawmakers question VA's plans to hire more staff

WASHINGTON -- Members of Congress expressed doubts Tuesday on plans by the Department of Veterans Affairs' to hire 1,900 additional workers to improve access to mental health care.

Updated: 05/08/12 at 1:51 pm EDT
  • Don't tell Paul's supporters GOP primary is over

    Don't tell Paul's supporters GOP primary is over

    WASHINGTON -- Don't tell Ron Paul the primary is over. He's too busy mucking up Mitt Romney's efforts to accumulate enough convention delegates to officially claim the Republican nomination for president.

    Updated: 05/08/12 at 11:24 am EDT
  • Senate heads toward showdown vote on student loans

    Senate heads toward showdown vote on student loans

    WASHINGTON -- The top Democrat in the Senate accused Republicans on Tuesday of caring more about the rich than about students as the chamber steamed toward a showdown over keeping student loan interest rates from doubling for 7.4 million students in July.

    Updated: 05/08/12 at 11:22 am EDT
  • Obama's 'to do' list for Congress: jobs, mortgages

    Obama's 'to do' list for Congress: jobs, mortgages

    WASHINGTON -- Pressuring Congress, President Barack Obama is laying out an election year "to do" list Tuesday that urges lawmakers to take another look at economic proposals to promote job creation and help families refinance their mortgages.

    Updated: 05/08/12 at 11:26 am EDT
  • Santorum endorses one-time rival Romney

    Santorum endorses one-time rival Romney

    WASHINGTON -- Former presidential hopeful Rick Santorum urged his supporters to back fellow Republican Mitt Romney's campaign Monday in a late-night email that ignored that Santorum once calling Romney the "worst Republican in the country" during their bitter contest.

    Updated: 05/08/12 at 6:10 am EDT
  • Obama targets middle-class voters through airwaves

    Obama targets middle-class voters through airwaves

    EUCLID, Ohio -- Targeting middle-class voters, President Barack Obama on Monday unveiled a sweeping $25 million, nine-state ad campaign whose centerpiece is a commercial portraying him as the steward of an economic comeback and confronting Republican criticism that recovery has sputtered on his watch.

    Updated: 05/07/12 at 9:28 pm EDT
  • Sen. Brown: Colleges should put tax info online

    Sen. Brown: Colleges should put tax info online

    BOSTON -- Sen. Scott Brown is calling for a one-year extension of the current 3.4 percent interest rate on federal student loans, while his chief Democratic opponent Elizabeth Warren is faulting Congress for not taking action earlier to avoid a doubling of the rate.

    Updated: 05/07/12 at 8:38 pm EDT
  • Obama's vague gay marriage stance under scrutiny

    Obama's vague gay marriage stance under scrutiny

    WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's election-year vagueness on gay marriage is coming under fresh scrutiny.

    Updated: 05/07/12 at 7:25 pm EDT
  • Obama campaign emphasizes economy in new ad

    Obama campaign emphasizes economy in new ad

    WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's re-election team, seeking to infuse a bit of positivity into the biting general election campaign, released a new television ad Monday portraying an America on the rise and urging voters to stick with the president.

    Updated: 05/07/12 at 4:30 pm EDT
  • Biden OK with equal rights for married gay couples

    Biden OK with equal rights for married gay couples

    WASHINGTON -- Vice President Joe Biden says he's "absolutely comfortable" with gay couples who marry getting the same civil rights and liberties as heterosexual couples, a stand that gay rights advocates interpreted as an endorsement of same-sex marriage

    Updated: 05/07/12 at 11:35 am EDT
  • House panel unveils $608 billion defense bill

    House panel unveils $608 billion defense bill

    WASHINGTON -- A House panel has unveiled a $608 billion defense spending bill that restores some of the programs the Pentagon wanted to cut next year and provides nearly $1 billion for Israeli missile defense programs.

    Updated: 05/07/12 at 11:03 am EDT
  • Obama cabinet member backs gay marriage

    Obama cabinet member backs gay marriage

    WASHINGTON -- Education Secretary Arne Duncan, a member of President Barack Obama's Cabinet, says he supports gay marriage.

    Updated: 05/07/12 at 9:13 am EDT
  • Green Party picks ex-Globetrotter for Ark. House

    Green Party picks ex-Globetrotter for Ark. House

    LITTLE ROCK, Ark -- The Green Party of Arkansas says it has nominated former Harlem Globetrotter Fred Smith for a state House seat, after he was ruled ineligible to run for the Democrats.

    Updated: 05/07/12 at 9:04 am EDT
  • Who's who? Obama, Romney projecting mirror image

    Who's who? Obama, Romney projecting mirror image

    WASHINGTON -- He's a smug, Harvard-trained elitist who doesn't get how regular Americans are struggling these days. More extreme than he lets on, he's keeping his true agenda hidden until after Election Day. He's clueless about fixing the economy, over his head on foreign policy. Who is he?

    Updated: 05/07/12 at 6:21 am EDT
  • Feelings run deep in Wis. recall; few undecided

    Feelings run deep in Wis. recall; few undecided

    RACINE, Wis -- Al Trossen feels like a wanted man. The former Teamster voted for embattled Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker in 2010 but isn't sure who to support in the state's historic recall election next month.

    Updated: 05/07/12 at 6:21 am EDT
  • GOP plan boosts Pentagon, cuts social programs

    GOP plan boosts Pentagon, cuts social programs

    WASHINGTON -- The Republicans who control the House are using cuts to food aid, health care and social services like Meals on Wheels to protect the Pentagon from a crippling wave of budget cuts come January.

    Updated: 05/07/12 at 11:04 am EDT
  • Adviser: Progress in getting Chinese dissident to US

    Adviser: Progress in getting Chinese dissident to US

    WASHINGTON -- A political adviser to President Barack Obama says the U.S. is "making some progress" to help a Chinese dissident come to the United States.

    Updated: 05/07/12 at 5:01 am EDT
  • Senate turns to partisan fight over student loans

    Senate turns to partisan fight over student loans

    WASHINGTON -- The Senate is the newest arena in the election-year face-off over federal student loans, and both sides are starting out by pounding away at each other.

    Updated: 05/07/12 at 4:58 am EDT
  • Twitter plays outsize role in 2012 campaign

    Twitter plays outsize role in 2012 campaign

    NEW YORK -- (at)BarackObama is on Twitter. So is (at)MittRomney. And so are all the voters following the 2012 presidential contest, whether they know it or not.

    Updated: 05/07/12 at 12:25 pm EDT
  • Behind the rhetoric on Ill. health care, pensions

    Behind the rhetoric on Ill. health care, pensions

    SPRINGFIELD, Ill -- Gov. Pat Quinn recently lit a fire under the simmering questions of what Illinois will do about climbing pension and Medicaid costs. He proposed cuts in both programs and warned that inaction could mean financial disaster for the state.

    Updated: 05/07/12 at 4:49 am EDT
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