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A New Arctic Agenda Starts With Congress and White House | Commentary
Our nation is making another attempt to put its fiscal house in order and it’s clear that we need to make wise investments in critical areas affecting the future of the United States. The U.N.
Archivist Gadfly Aims to Keep Ex-Presidents Honest
Once the Presidential Records Act became law, every scrap of paper produced by the White House became subject to public domain — a sea change Clark perceives as both good and bad.
How Bad Is the GOP Rift? Worse Than Democrats in the 1980s
Political parties seem to suffer through internal battles periodically, but the current state of the GOP is much worse than what Democrats went through some 25 years ago, when organized labor and old-style
Jimmy Eat World Mixing Music and Politics
In 2002, a couple of years after I moved to Washington to write about politics, I forced my fiancee to watch Jimmy Eat World from the balcony of the 9:30 Club, when the band filmed its “Believe
Lindy Boggs’ Old-World Path to Congress Blazed a Trail for the New
The speed with which President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton offered their mini-eulogies suggested that Boggs had remained indispensable to the end at the center of the capital’s
GOP Faces 20 Years in Desert Without DLC-Like Moderation
Safire’s comment was cited this March in a trenchant Commentary article by former White House aides Michael Gerson and Peter Wehner, “How to Save the Republican Party.”
Revenue-Sharing Fight Presents Conservation Fund Backers With Challenge, Opportunity
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee is expected to hold a hearing on the bill (S 630) later this month.
Democrats Rally Against Bill Clinton’s Record
Sixteen years ago, that was a two-term Democratic president. Bill Clinton is a rock star among Democrats.
India Can Join the U.S. and China to Cut Super Greenhouse Gases | Commentary
Historically, India has been a key nation in the Montreal Protocol throughout the 25 years of its operation, which includes phasing out nearly 100 chemicals similar to HFCs, by nearly 100 percent
The Risks and Rewards of Being First to Endorse an Assumed Candidate
In 2006, she apologized after saying on national TV that, while Bill Clinton may have been a great president, “I don’t want him near my daughter.”
Afghan War Vote More About War Fatigue Than Forcing Drawdown
The amendment, approved 305-121 as part of the House-passed fiscal 2014 defense authorization bill (HR 1960), nonetheless serves as an important political message to the Senate and the Obama administration
Immigration Bill Vote Counting Is a Three-Dimensional Chess Game
The Senate bill, which includes language similar to the bill known as the DREAM Act, would make Obama’s policy permanent.
A Budget Bluff-Off, Four Months Before the Next Cliff Walk
The White House made its first symbolically important move in the 2014 appropriations game Monday, declaring the president would veto any measure that would carry out the stated aspirations of the
Will Republicans Screw Up Again? Some Are Already Overreaching
Some Republicans are so excited at the thought of multiple controversies dogging the White House over the next few months (or longer) that they are already foaming at the mouth.
Obama Gets Bitter Taste of History’s Second-Term Curse
Bill Clinton pushed a landmark, bipartisan agreement on plans for balancing the federal budget through Congress in August 1997 and got to work on a typically disparate collection of other priorities
Chambliss Aces Golf With Obama
Chambliss has golfed with other presidents before, including President Bill Clinton. “This is the first time I’ve golfed with this president.
Obama’s New Cabinet Is Just as Diverse but No More Powerful
Bill Clinton and George W. Bush both talked about emulating Ike, but soon enough concluded that the system wouldn’t work.
Ornstein: Congress Has Changed, Not for the Better, and Now It Needs Changing
From Bill Clinton’s first day in the White House, House Republicans and their Senate counterparts behaved like a parliamentary minority party, opposing in unison his signature priority in his first year
CBC Lukewarm on Watt Trial Balloon: ‘Not That Sexy’
Outside of a two-sentence statement sent to reporters when news of the letter broke, White House officials have not responded to it in any way, members said.