NC Sen. Hagan facing powerful GOP force in 2014
| |Monday, Jun. 17, 2013
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. — Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan of North Carolina rode President Barack Obama's coattails in 2008, winning a seat Republicans had held for nearly four decades.
IRS scandal brings out more charges of political audits
| |Monday, Jun. 17, 2013
WASHINGTON — If reports of political targeting of conservatives by the Internal Revenue Service shocked the nation, they didn’t seem that surprising to many other groups who experienced problems with the tax agency in the past.
Dispute over Obama’s choices for D.C. court centers on need – and politics
| |Monday, Jun. 17, 2013
WASHINGTON — A fight is brewing over President Barack Obama's efforts to fill three vacancies on a single federal court that Republicans claim doesn't do enough work to merit them.
Left and right already swinging at Ark. senator
| |Sunday, Jun. 16, 2013
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The conservative Club for Growth tags Democratic Sen. Mark Pryor as President Barack Obama's "closest ally" in the state. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's gun-control advocacy group says Pryor "let us down."
2014 Senate Democrats firm up health care support
| |Saturday, Jun. 15, 2013
ATLANTA — Far from reversing course, Senate Democrats who backed President Barack Obama's health care law and now face re-election in GOP-leaning states are firming up their support for the overhaul even as Republican criticism intensifies.
US Rep. Mike Rogers of Mich. won't run for Senate
| |Friday, Jun. 14, 2013
LANSING, Mich. — U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers announced Friday he will not run for the U.S. Senate in Michigan next year, saying the best way for him to make a difference in Washington is staying in the House.
As public concerns grow, Congress spooked over spying
| |Friday, Jun. 14, 2013
WASHINGTON — The American people are growing increasingly concerned about reports of domestic spying. And Congress isn’t sure how to respond.
Alaska delegation suspicious of NSA data collection
| |Friday, Jun. 14, 2013
WASHINGTON — Sen. Mark Begich of Alaska is cosponsoring a bill that would end secret interpretations of the Patriot Act, which enabled the National Security Agency to collect billions of phone records from Americans.
Notion of gene patenting raises eyebrows at Supreme Court
| |Thursday, Jun. 13, 2013
WASHINGTON — Supreme Court justices pushed back Monday against the idea of patenting human genes during oral arguments that ranged from baseball bats and chocolate chip cookies to imaginary plants in the Amazon.
Feinstein will seek limits on who can see NSA spy data
| |Thursday, Jun. 13, 2013
WASHINGTON — The Senate intelligence committee chairman on Thursday vowed an effort to limit the access of government contract workers, such as Edward Snowden, to highly classified information.
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