Senate Democrats on Wednesday called for a temporary windfall profits tax on oil companies and a rollback of $17 billion in oil industry tax breaks as part of an energy package. The proposal also would impose federal penalties on energy price gouging and calls for stopping oil deliveries into the government's emergency reserve.
Voter excitement, always up before a presidential election, is pushing registration through the roof this year -- with more than 3.5 million people rushing to join in the historic balloting, according to an Associated Press survey.
Sen. John McCain Monday joined other GOP senators urging environmental regulators to ease rules demanding a sharp increase in ethanol use to help head off further increases in food prices.
A bill meant to help homeowners caught up in the spreading mortgage crisis received committee approval Thursday after Democrats fended off numerous Republican challenges to the bill.
Momentum built Wednesday for a bipartisan Senate bill designed to ease the slumping housing market and help millions of families threatened by foreclosure, though economists are skeptical that it will help much
Yes, he's still around. And Paul's stubborn candidacy says a lot about how the Republican Party has strayed from its ideals
There are two major national political parties in the United States: the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. But have those groups been at the forefront of American politics since the birth of the nation? This One-Sheet helps students learn about the history of political parties in America.
House Republican leader John Boehner and other Republicans warned on Thursday that a successful program to combat AIDS in Africa would be in jeopardy if Democrats move ahead with plans to make changes that he said would support abortions
The GOP presidential hopefuls have their eyes set on South Carolina, which hosts the South's first party nominee contest Saturday.
With two days to go until the Iowa caucuses, a new CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll out Tuesday shows both the Democratic and Republican presidential nomination races tied at the top.
Senate Democrats on Wednesday called for a temporary windfall profits tax on oil companies and a rollback of $17 billion in oil industry tax breaks as part of an energy package. The proposal also would impose federal penalties on energy price gouging and calls for stopping oil deliveries into the government's emergency reserve.
Voter excitement, always up before a presidential election, is pushing registration through the roof this year -- with more than 3.5 million people rushing to join in the historic balloting, according to an Associated Press survey.
Sen. John McCain Monday joined other GOP senators urging environmental regulators to ease rules demanding a sharp increase in ethanol use to help head off further increases in food prices.
A bill meant to help homeowners caught up in the spreading mortgage crisis received committee approval Thursday after Democrats fended off numerous Republican challenges to the bill.
Momentum built Wednesday for a bipartisan Senate bill designed to ease the slumping housing market and help millions of families threatened by foreclosure, though economists are skeptical that it will help much
Yes, he's still around. And Paul's stubborn candidacy says a lot about how the Republican Party has strayed from its ideals
There are two major national political parties in the United States: the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. But have those groups been at the forefront of American politics since the birth of the nation? This One-Sheet helps students learn about the history of political parties in America.
House Republican leader John Boehner and other Republicans warned on Thursday that a successful program to combat AIDS in Africa would be in jeopardy if Democrats move ahead with plans to make changes that he said would support abortions
The GOP presidential hopefuls have their eyes set on South Carolina, which hosts the South's first party nominee contest Saturday.
With two days to go until the Iowa caucuses, a new CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll out Tuesday shows both the Democratic and Republican presidential nomination races tied at the top.
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee has shot to the top of a new poll in South Carolina, leading Republican presidential candidates in the key Southern state.
The party is headed for the most wide-open nomination fight since Wendell Willkie. You remember him
A Michigan Congressman is feeling the heat for his vote against lending reform, and Democrats are hoping the issue will resonate across the country
One year to Election Day, and the struggling Republican Party is looking for much more than a new leader.
Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas announced Friday afternoon that he is pulling the plug on his Republican presidential bid.
Thanks to scandal and retirements, the GOP must now worry that Democrats could gain a filibuster-proof majority in 2008
As Democratic and Republican presidential candidates scour the country for votes during the 2008 campaign, they'll inevitably court the Hispanic community, a voting group growing rapidly in number and diversity.
That's right, I said it. And I mean it.
Only one candidate has agreed to the next Univision Spanish- language debate. Has the GOP given up on the Latino vote?
McCain was back in stride, while Romney was off his game, says Mark Halperin of last night's Thompson-free gathering
The men's room sex sting involving Idaho Sen. Larry Craig is cracking the unity of GOP senators, sources say.
Analysis: Scandals like the one that took down the Idaho Senator have demoralized the base ahead of the '08 campaign
GOP strategist Karl Rove won't let up in his attacks on Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton, but the intriguing question is why.
Voters concerned about where presidential candidates stand on gay rights may have their question answered tonight.
His party is in a funk, and there's no clear front-runner for the nomination. Can the actor-politician meet great expectations?
Two key GOP dissenters from President Bush's war strategy are working to shift its emphasis away from the so-called "surge" in the wake of an upcoming progress report on Iraqi benchmarks.
One of Hillary Clinton's most important courtships began early last year, around a formal dinner table at Georgetown's Four Seasons Hotel. Her targets were Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack and his wife, Christy. Mack was already active politically - but on behalf of Clinton's political opponents. A Bush "Ranger," he had raised at least $200,000 for the President's reelection bid and was one of the most prominent business names on GOP donor lists. At one time his name had circulated as a potential Bush Treasury Secretary.
NEW CENSUS DATA show that the top 1% of U.S. earners now take home a greater share of national income than at any time since the height of the go-go 1920s. The top 300,000 earners together receive almost as much income as the bottom 150 million. Democrats inhale these facts and breathe out fire. Republicans say, "Hey, this is no time to be complacent. With a little effort we can push this closer to Louis XVI levels of inequality!"
New requirements to track down, deport and permanently bar people who overstay their visas would be added to a broad immigration bill under a GOP bid to attract more Republican support
New Census data show that the top 1 percent of U.S. earners now take home a greater share of national income than at any time since the height of the go-go 1920s. The top 300,000 earners together receive almost as much income as the bottom 150 million.
Ten Republicans who want to be president will take the stage Tuesday night for their first debate in New Hampshire, hoping to make an impression on the voters who will cast ballots in the nation's first primary early next year.
The State newspaper headline Monday sums up the sense of anticipation among South Carolina Republicans as they prepare for Tuesday night's debate involving their party's presidential candidates: "GOP looks for a standout."
When it comes to Ronald Reagan's 11th commandment -- "Thou shalt not speak ill of thy fellow Republicans" -- GOP presidential candidates seem to be losing their religion.
Republicans were faced Tuesday with the possibility that the war in Iraq, an unpopular president and a series of scandals would thwart their chances of maintaining a grip on Congress.
OK, so maybe we did have to wait 37 days to find out who won in 2000; and maybe it took until dawn two years ago to know that Bush had won a second term. But that doesn't mean you early-to-bed types won't have important clues to the big stories tonight. Here's an hour-by-hour guide to some of the key questions we'll be asking:
We talk a lot during presidential years about "coattails" (not many coats have tails anymore, but never mind). We mean, of course, whether the candidate at the top of the ticket can pull other candidates into office.
Power may be corrupting, but it is also addictive. That's why no party likes to lose an election. But the truth is that sometimes a loss is just what is needed to regain a sense of purpose and energy. And that's why the Republicans need to lose in November.
If President Roosevelt were around today, he might amend that famous line from his first inaugural address.
In tackling the immigration issue, Republicans in Congress really outdid themselves. Call it: "Immigration Reform for Dummies."
High gas prices and general pocketbook angst will certainly be a factor when voters cast their ballots on Election Day, analysts predict.
As thousands of illegal immigrants plan to rally Thursday in Washington, politicians, including President George Bush, have already stated their support of a guest worker program that would allow millions of foreign workers to find gainful - but temporary - employment in the United States.
House GOP leaders had to further dilute President Bush's austere 2007 budget plan in order to push it past the finish line early Thursday.
Conservative Republicans gathering to talk about the upcoming elections normally would be a welcome event for national party leaders. But not this year.
President Bush on Friday rejected calls to tax oil companies' record profits, but said he expects those companies to re-invest those profits in alternative fuels and new energy technologies.
Most American taxpayers would get $100 rebate checks to offset the pain of higher pump prices for gasoline, under an amendment Senate Republicans hope to bring to a vote soon.
Considering that Vice President Dick Cheney had come a long way to help Florida Congressman Ric Keller raise $250,000 last week, the reception he got in the Sunshine State could have been a bit warmer. After extolling Cheney as "one of the most effective Vice Presidents in the history of the U.S.," Keller launched into all the times he had recently opposed the Bush Administration, including the deal to allow a Dubai company to manage operations at several U.S. ports. And then Keller went right for the punch line: "'Don't be too hasty,'" he claimed the Vice President had pleaded with him. "'Let's go hunting. We'll talk about it.'"
The new Republican leader in the House of Representatives backed more stringent disclosure rules for lawmakers and lobbyists Sunday, but criticized measures such as a ban on privately paid travel proposed by other GOP leaders.
Congressional Democrats made a sweeping election-year promise Wednesday to clean up Capitol Hill amid an influence-peddling scandal that has spurred Republicans to propose a reform package of their own.
A majority of Americans consider the congressional influence-peddling inquiry surrounding former lobbyist Jack Abramoff a major scandal, and they registered an anti-incumbent note in a poll released Monday.
In what could be the death knell for Rep. Tom DeLay's hopes of returning to the House leadership and a wake-up call to the current GOP leaders, some moderate and conservative Republicans are officially calling on the House Republican leadership to hold elections in early February, CNN has learned.
A week after postponing a vote on a budget-cutting package, House Republicans eked out a narrow 217-215 win early Friday, passing a bill to trim about $50 billion from the deficit over the next five years.
Last Wednesday, leaders of conservative and moderate factions in the House Republican conference sat down to discuss a joint call for new leadership elections. No agreement was reached, and the events of the next 24 hours destroyed the budding coalition while exposing the ineffectiveness of current leaders. Abandonment of oil drilling in the Arctic failed to appease the moderate bloc, and the leaders pulled down the budget-cutting bill late Thursday.
House Republican leaders abruptly called off a vote Thursday on a bill that would trim $50 billion in spending after moderate Republicans resisted cuts to a range of social programs, including Medicaid, student loans and food stamps.
Between Tom DeLay's ethics problems, the handling of Hurricane Katrina, the Iraq war and soaring gas prices, you'd think congressional Democrats would be counting the days in anticipation of the 2006 midterm elections.
If the polls are accurate, then for only the second time in 30 years are the most loyal partisans in the Out-of-Power political party and their most partisan opponents in the In-Power party backing the same candidate to be the next presidential nominee of the Out-of-Power party.
Ever since he witnessed an AIDS-awareness presentation at a Houston-area high school that went into explicit detail about how condoms could prevent the spread of the disease, the Rev. Rick Scarborough has been the kind of dedicated activist the G.O.P. has to thank for much of its current dominance.
WHAT DO GENERAL MOTORS' WOES, the Medicare prescription-drug law, the state and local health-care time bomb described in the previous story, and Congress's recent refusal to trim soaring state Medi...
It has been less than a month since George W. Bush began getting specific about his plans to reform Social Security, but bookmakers in Washington are lengthening the odds of its passage.
A day after strengthening the Republican Party's majority in the House, Speaker Dennis Hastert called on Democrats to assist GOP efforts to fight the war on terror, create jobs and expand health insurance to more Americans.
New governors will take the helm in six states, with voting reflecting a party shift in four of them -- two for Democrats and two for Republicans.
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.
Republicans retained control of the U.S. House of Representatives and added at least four seats to their number, joining GOP gains in the Senate to solidify the party's congressional control.
They may be big names back home, but at this week's convention many top Republicans will cede the limelight to President Bush while busying themselves networking, raising money and energizing themselves for their own campaigns.
The Democratic Party has long maintained a near monopoly on the African-American vote, a claim Republicans hope to tackle by putting on a new face this week in New York.
Monday's kickoff of the 2004 Republican National Convention will unleash a four-day multimedia barrage of words, images and music and ceremonies aimed at convincing moderates and independents that George W. Bush deserves a second term in the White House.
Check out the links below to hot political stories around the country this morning.
Rep. Jim Greenwood, a six-term moderate Republican up for re-election in November, has told GOP leaders he will leave Congress at the end of his term, sources told CNN.
Jack Ryan, the former U.S. Senate candidate in Illinois, repeated Friday that he would not re-enter the race, and seemed flabbergasted that the GOP hasn't found a replacement candidate three weeks after he dropped out.
A proposed constitutional amendment that would effectively prohibit gay or lesbian couples from legally marrying is expected to die in a procedural Senate vote Wednesday.
Barack Obama knows his background is about as unconventional as Illinois voters will probably ever see in a Senate candidate. He was born in Hawaii, the son of a Kenyan economist and a white mother from Kansas, and spent four years of his childhood in Indonesia. His last name rhymes with Osama. So he begins every campaign speech with the question on the audience's mind: "How does a skinny guy with a funny name win an election?"
George Bush and his G.O.P. allies in Congress thought the Medicare prescription-drug benefit they enacted last December would take a key issue away from the Democrats and entice millions of seniors to vote Republican this November.
This week in The Inside Edge, discover the Democrats' new secret weapon, learn why the presidential election may be heading in a different direction than polls may suggest, tune in to a future foreign policy hotspot and look for the return of the GOP's 007.
It's been more than a week since the president weighed in on same-sex marriage, saying a constitutional amendment was necessary to "prevent the meaning of marriage from being changed forever."
Thirty-nine Republicans in the House of Representatives crossed party lines to join Democrats in approving a measure that would extend the unemployment benefits for about 375,000 people whose regular benefits have run out for six-months.
As we head into budget season, most small business owners expect the Republican Congress to support their interests. But Republicans in power don't always yield happy entrepreneurs. Yes, small busi...
The Republican takeover of Congress virtually ensures a slew of tax cuts that could take effect, retroactively, as early as Jan. 1, say tax experts and Washington insiders.
For years, Republicans have gathered at their summer convention and beaten one another up over abortion. This year George W. Bush, who does not intend to alter the GOP platform's anti-abortion lang...
House Republicans are hopeless, literally. Also rudderless. And desperate to recover from the impeachment debacle. They're craving adult supervision. Not for nothing did they summon the onetime hea...
It's well known by now that despite his impeachment, or maybe because of it, Bill Clinton's polls are at near-record highs. What isn't so obvious is how the Democrats are profiting--and the Republi...
The new GOP leaders are arguing that they will be be more action-oriented, more efficient, more productive, and more practical than the do-nothing goons they replaced. Probably closer to the truth:...
The voters didn't produce much of a House cleaning this fall, and the Senate won't look that much different in January, either. Even so, there will be a new set of leaders in the House, some new fa...
"The Republicans have won the deficit issue!" GOP polltaker Frank Luntz exulted recently. "What could be better?"
Now that the President and congressional leaders have taken their bows for a landmark deal to balance the budget by 2002 and cut taxes by $85 billion, the truly fierce fighting begins. During what ...
They were the irresistible force. The new majority. The future. Full of common sense. Brimming with ideas. And loads of interesting personalities. They were going to dominate Washington as no one h...
Whichever way the House of Representatives goes on Election Day, there's probably no happy ending for any taxpayer the politicians deem to be wealthy. And let's face it, if you're doing okay these ...
Never mind who wins the White House or which party ends up controlling Capitol Hill. The big news about Election 1996 is already in, and the bottom line on it is this: When the political horserace ...
Who are George Radanovich, Charles Bass, and Sam Brownback, and what do they want? Chances are those names mean nothing in your house. But in Newt Gingrich's House, Radanovich, Bass, and Brownback-...
The muscular and iconoclastic Republicans who run Congress have three goals. They want to cut Washington's deficit. They want to reshape the welfare state. And they want to ensure that the Republic...
If you want some clues on the new corporate uniform, see The Business Life/What to Wear. But if you want to make a fashion statement, look no further than the American Clothing Co.'s GOP collection...
With the 1996 presidential election season at hand, prognosticators will soon be barraging us with leading indicators that purport to shed light on the eventual results. Here's one most of them ove...
Thought Newt & Co. were out to smash that sleazoid nexus of power and money in Washington? Fat chance. For all their attacks on big business and the status quo, the Republican goal is much simpler:...
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When Dick Cheney kicked off his New Year by deciding not to make a run for the White House in 1996, business executives lost their favorite candidate for President. But corporate America has a muc...
It was the Bloodbath at the Ballot, an overwhelming cry for change on Nov. 8 that handed Republicans the reins of both the House and the Senate for the first time in more than a generation. Whether...
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