Small business played a major role during the Republican convention this week.
On Erin Burnett OutFront, Sen. John Thune announced a deal that extends payroll tax cuts for two months.
As usual, Professor Paul Krugman's piece in the Monday morning New York Times is causing a great deal of chatter among the political types. Krugman points out just how inept the Republican field is. In some cases he takes a scalpel (and in others a machete) to surely the weakest field of presidential aspirants any party has offered in modern American history (see my earlier CNN column comparing this field to 1980). I believe I can explain why this field is so inept. In order to proffer this explanation I am going to utilize Professor Krugman's field of economics.
Lawmakers are trying to block million-dollar bonuses to top executives at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage-backing firms that required a giant taxpayer bailout.
It's been a big bone of contention from Day 1 on the congressional debt committee. Will Republicans accept any kind of revenue dedicated to debt reduction, and if so what kind and how much?
Much of the country has been watching the debate in Washington over how our government spends money, and how much it spends.
Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Arizona, the second ranking Republican in the Senate, announced Thursday he will not seek a fourth Senate term in 2012.
Three years ago, GOP candidates were all but piling on each other to announce their candidacy for the Republican nomination for president.
Critics are blasting a new omnibus bill that contains billions in earmarks. CNN's Anderson Cooper reports.
Two prominent Republicans vowed Wednesday to vote against the $1.1 trillion spending bill, citing concerns over pork-laden pet projects, although millions of dollars of earmarks in the bill were requested by the two senators.
Politics is serious business -- but not all of the time. From the halls of Congress to the campaign trail to the international stage, there's always something that gets a laugh or a second glance. Here are some of the things you might have missed:
Speakers at the National Rifle Association's annual leadership forum on Friday touted Second Amendment rights and also set their sights on the upcoming midterm elections.
The former Alaska governor made the case for the 2nd amendment at the annual NRA leadership forum.
Frustrated Democrats went to the Senate floor Friday to seek Republican approval for a long list of administration nominees currently blocked by controversial secret holds placed by GOP senators.
Health care reform takes center stage Thursday as President Obama and top congressional Democrats work behind closed doors to nail down a final agreement.
At 108 years old, Cpl. Frank Buckles said Thursday he hopes he lives to see the day when there's a memorial on the National Mall honoring all Americans who fought in World War I.
For the federal government, this has been the year of spending dangerously.
He walks through Washington's Reagan National Airport, arriving as he does nearly every Monday from a weekend home in South Dakota. He makes his way unnoticed.
Sen. John Thune sits down with CNN's Dana Bash for a one-on-one interview.
The Senate on Wednesday narrowly rejected a controversial measure to allow people to carry concealed weapons from state to state.
For some, the slow, steady demise of TARP cannot happen soon enough.
President Bush may want to end the ban on offshore drilling, but you wouldn't know it from his administration's failure to obey a key directive in the 2005 Energy Act.
Former Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle is throwing his support to Sen. Barack Obama in the scramble for the party's 2008 presidential nomination, an Obama campaign aide told CNN.
Look down from the cabin of Kevin Schieffer's twin-engine King Air 5,000 feet over Wyoming's Powder River Basin, and it's easy to see why he and his investors want to build the first major new rail...
In Washington, the revolving door usually leads lawmakers to become lobbyists so they can cash in on their connections. But in some cases, it spins all the way around; creating a rare circumstance in which a lawmaker turns lobbyist turns lawmaker.
An independent commission voting on the Pentagon's recommendations to close military bases handed victories Friday to two states that campaigned for their major Air Force bases to be saved.
What would New Year's Eve be without party favors?
Drawing the curtain on a decade as the Senate's Democratic leader and more than a quarter century in Congress, Sen. Tom Daschle bid farewell to his colleagues on the Senate floor Friday, saying he is approaching his future outside of Congress with "great optimism, hope and anticipation."
Republican challenger John Thune beat Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, adding a South Dakota Senate seat to GOP gains in Georgia, Florida, Louisiana and the Carolinas.
Former GOP Rep. John Thune has defeated Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle after portraying the incumbent as an obstructionist who was out of touch with South Dakota voters.
There are just 10 Senate races where party turnovers are considered possible, and just two where turnovers are considered likely.
Check out the links below to hot political stories around the country this morning.
Debate recapupdated: Mon Jan 05 2004 09:10:00
Check out the links below to hot political stories around the country this morning.
Thune, take two?updated: Mon Jan 05 2004 06:02:00
John Thune is set to announce Monday night whether he'll challenge Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle in November, and while nothing's certain until Thune says the word, top Republicans in Washington are confident he'll run.
We took a much-needed break over the past two weeks. But as anyone with an e-mail inbox knows, the '04 Democrats did not.
In a sign that he getting close to challenging Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, D-South Dakota, in November, former Congressman John Thune has been meeting with a veteran GOP strategist about running his campaign, according to a senior GOP source.
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