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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's election-year vagueness on gay marriage is coming under fresh scrutiny.
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.
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
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.
WASHINGTON -- Education Secretary Arne Duncan, a member of President Barack Obama's Cabinet, says he supports gay marriage.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
