Nancy Benac

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President Barack Obama gives his State of the Union address on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday Jan. 28, 2014. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Analysis: Obama’s agenda more bite-sized than bold

Nancy Benac · January 29, 2014 6:04 am

Finding right word to define state of the union

Nancy Benac · January 28, 2014 8:12 am

The Capitol Rotunda looms over the statue of George Washington on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Jan. 27, 2014, as the House and Senate resume work in Washington. President Barack Obama will deliver his State of the Union address Tuesday night to a joint session of Congress. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

5 things to know about the State of the Union

Nancy Benac · January 27, 2014 6:45 pm

State of Union: A speech its writers love to hate

Nancy Benac · January 24, 2014 7:57 pm

FILE - In this Nov. 13, 2013 file photo, House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., holds up a checklist related to the preparation for the implementation of the Obamacare healthcare program, and specifically, the HealthCare.gov website, on Capitol Hill in Washington. For two months, the talk was all about computer code. About response times. About glitches and bugs. Issa, who misses no opportunity to investigate perceived shortcomings in the health care program, devoted a full hearing to the "limitations of Big Government" when it comes to health care. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Health care debate has trust, politics themes, too

Nancy Benac · December 9, 2013 10:16 pm

FILE - This May 11, 2010 file photo by an Associated Press photographer shows President Barack Obama talking on the phone with British Prime Minister David Cameron, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. Twice from 2008-2013, White House-based photographers have been given access to President Obama working at his desk alone in the Oval Office. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

News media protest White House press access limits

Nancy Benac · November 22, 2013 8:45 am

President Barack Obama speaks about his signature health care law, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2013, in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. Bowing to pressure, President Barack Obama intends to permit continued sale of individual insurance plans that have been canceled because they failed to meet coverage standards under the health care law, officials said Thursday. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Not so fast: Obama’s health care law is changing

Nancy Benac · November 15, 2013 9:09 am

FILE - In this 1962 file photo, President John F. Kennedy and his daughter, Caroline, sail off Hyannis Port, Mass. (AP Photo)

JFK’s Caroline: keeper of family flame, diplomat

Nancy Benac · November 7, 2013 9:53 pm

Why spy on allies? Even good friends keep secrets

Nancy Benac · October 31, 2013 5:47 pm

National Park Service employees tend to the North Lawn of the White House in Washington, Friday, Oct. 18, 2013, after a 16-day partial government shutdown was resolved by lawmakers late Wednesday. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Fed-up voters meet the enemy and it is … them?

Nancy Benac · October 19, 2013 12:32 pm

FILE - In this Oct. 2, 2013 file photo people visit the closed World War II Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, despite signs stating that the national parks are closed due to the federal shutdown. The Lincoln Memorial is in the background. The shutdown is transforming a musty debate over the role of government in America into a coast-to-coast, prime-time reality show. With landmarks closed, paychecks delayed and workers furloughed, Americans are drawing dueling lessons from the rippling effects of the partial shutdown: either the disruptions show that the feds are way too involved in people's lives, or that the government does a lot of vital things that people take for granted. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Shutdown driving debate over role of government

Nancy Benac · October 14, 2013 8:02 am

In this Sept. 30, 2013, photo, cars line up at Grand Canyon National Park's South Rim entrance before the park was closed on Oct. 1 due to the partial government shutdown. Americans are finding that âthe governmentâ entails a lot more than the stereotype of faceless D.C. bureaucrats cranking out red tape. (AP Photo/Felicia Fonseca)

Who knew? Shutdown casualties shatter stereotypes

Nancy Benac · October 3, 2013 7:10 am