Tue May 15, 2012 6:24 PM EDT
The House is voting on a Republican-written bill to renew the Violence Against Women Act, but the White House has threatened to veto it.
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Sat May 12, 2012 3:42 AM EDT
President Barack Obama delighted his liberal base by coming down on the side of gay marriage, but he cheered the opposition, too.
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Thu May 10, 2012 11:59 AM EDT
House Speaker John Boehner says he's staying focused on jobs and the economy in the 2012 elections and not President Barack Obama's support for gay marriage.
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Tue May 8, 2012 6:57 PM EDT
House Republicans on Tuesday advanced their own version of an election-year bill to protect women from violence.
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Sat Apr 28, 2012 3:17 AM EDT
No excessive drinking — and no alcohol at all within 10 hours of working. Disreputable establishments are off limits, as is entertaining foreigners in the hotel room.
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Fri Apr 27, 2012 9:53 PM EDT
Seeking to shake off the disgrace of a prostitution scandal, the Secret Service late Friday tightened conduct rules for its agents to prohibit them from drinking excessively, visiting disreputable establishments while traveling or bringing foreigners to their hotel rooms.
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Fri Apr 27, 2012 8:28 PM EDT
A key House chairman says one of the Secret Service agents accused of wrongdoing in the Colombia prostitution scandal failed a lie detector test.
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Fri Apr 27, 2012 6:24 PM EDT
The Secret Service circulated "enhanced standards of conduct" on Friday from Director Mark Sullivan in response to the prostitution scandal in Colombia. The document, obtained by The Associated Press, instructed employees to "consider your conduct through the lens of the past several weeks."
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Tue Apr 24, 2012 3:33 PM EDT
The chairman of the Senate homeland security committee says whistleblowers are calling in tips about the Secret Service in the wake of the Colombia prostitution scandal. Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman was mum on the details Tuesday, but he said any revelations would be part of public hearings into misconduct in the agency going back a decade.
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Tue Apr 24, 2012 1:49 AM EDT
The widening Secret Service prostitution scandal has touched off a delicate dance in Washington.
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Thu Apr 19, 2012 1:31 PM EDT
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says the 11 Secret Service employees under investigation for cavorting with prostitutes were "stupid," and there's not much Congress can do to stop others from making the same choices.
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Wed Apr 18, 2012 12:15 PM EDT
House Speaker John Boehner said Wednesday that President Barack Obama "checked out" last Labor Day and has been running for reelection, rather than governing, ever since.
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Wed Apr 18, 2012 11:46 AM EDT
The Secret Service prostitution scandal is an embarrassment to the agency and the United States, House Speaker John Boehner said Wednesday. But he stopped short of calling for an independent investigation.
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Fri Apr 13, 2012 3:53 AM EDT
President Barack Obama is sticking up for Ann Romney, the wife of Republican rival Mitt Romney and the target of a Democratic operative who suggested that she's unqualified to speak about the economy's tolls because she's "never worked a day in her life."
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Thu Apr 12, 2012 5:37 PM EDT
The White House — and President Barack Obama himself — rushed into a damage control campaign Thursday to blunt the impact of a Democratic consultant's suggestion that Ann Romney isn't qualified to discuss the economy because she "hasn't worked a day in her life."
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Thu Apr 12, 2012 1:32 PM EDT
Ann Romney fought back Thursday against a Democrat who suggested she's no economic expert because she "hasn't worked a day in her life." Raising the five Romney sons, she said, was such a full-time job that her husband, Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney, considered it more important than his work as the family breadwinner.
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Wed Apr 11, 2012 8:59 PM EDT
Ann Romney says raising five sons was a full-time job and that her husband, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, considered it more important than his role as family breadwinner.
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Fri Apr 6, 2012 8:11 PM EDT
Mitt Romney is starting to hone his appeal to female voters, acutely aware as he turns to the general election that he has little choice but to narrow President Barack Obama's commanding lead among this critical constituency.
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Tue Apr 3, 2012 8:35 PM EDT
Mitt Romney has swept a trio of GOP primaries, coasting to wins over chief rival Rick Santorum in Wisconsin, Maryland and Washington, D.C.
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Fri Mar 30, 2012 3:55 AM EDT
Republicans and Democrats are selling their budget plans back home as models for how they would run Washington if they win the November elections.
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Thu Mar 29, 2012 11:09 PM EDT
Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the chairman of the Republican-led House Budget Committee, is expected to endorse presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, two Republican officials said Thursday.
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Wed Mar 28, 2012 2:03 PM EDT
The presidential election may be seven months off, but congressional leaders have already begun planning for the winner's inauguration. The first item of concern? Preventing another "purple tunnel of doom."
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Tue Mar 27, 2012 3:01 PM EDT
As a married woman, Marisa Hannum had her family's conservatism in mind when she backed Republicans in the 2008 and 2004 presidential elections. Now divorced, she is putting her own interests first as she weighs whether to vote for Democratic President Barack Obama or his Republican challenger this fall.
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Wed Mar 21, 2012 6:34 PM EDT
Once upon a time in Congress, compromise between Republicans and Democrats was the norm. And a witty GOP senator named Bob Dole was one of the best practitioners of the art, preferably on a West-facing balcony of the Capitol where he could get sun on his face while lawmaking. He succeeded an affable storyteller and able dealmaker named Howard Baker, who likened running the Senate to herding cats.
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Wed Mar 21, 2012 3:15 PM EDT
Former senator Bob Dole says GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum is "getting close to the point" where he'll have to decide whether to stay in the race for the nomination or drop out.
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