Tag: Kelly Ayotte

Sen. Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire is asking for a detailed plan to restore, operate and maintain a cemetery in the Philippines where more than 8,300 American veterans are buried, a year after President Barack Obama signed into a law a bill to restore it. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

New Hampshire’s Kelly Ayotte asks for plan to restore vet cemetery

Associated Press · January 16, 2014 5:00 am

Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-NH., right, talks with Sen. Lindsey Graham, S.C., before their joint news conference on unemployment and military pension cuts, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2014, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Beltway Confidential

What if you could restore veterans’ pensions, fund jobless benefits and stop illegal immigrant fraud, all at once? Democrats would block it

Byron York · January 9, 2014 5:00 am

Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., cut up a giant poster of a credit card on the Senate floor Tuesday, saying it demonstrated why Washington politicians must end their addiction to spending money they don't have. (AP Photo)

Obamacare battle is another phase in the timeless war between freedom and tyranny

Tom Coburn · November 20, 2013 5:00 am

The White House reaffirmed President Obama's intention to shutter the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a long and elusive promise the president is trying to push anew. (Photo: Tim Mak/Washington Examiner file)

White House: Obama still determined to close Gitmo

Susan Crabtree · November 18, 2013 5:00 am

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., speaks to reporters following a meeting of House Democrats on the Affordable Health Care law on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2013. Pelosi agree that the troubled rollout of the health care law must be fixed. She says they will have a proposal for the House to vote on Friday. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Nancy Pelosi frustrated with rollout but won’t apologize for cancelled plans

Tim Mak · November 17, 2013 5:00 am

Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., said she believes Obamacare will be a key issue of the 2014 elections. (AP File)

GOP senators vow to block new efforts to close Gitmo

Susan Crabtree · November 14, 2013 5:00 am

Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., meets with a supporter of equal rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans after the Senate approved a bill outlawing workplace discrimination against LGBT people. (Photo: Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Historic LGBT workers’ rights bill passes Senate, heads to reluctant House

Sean Lengell · November 7, 2013 5:00 am

Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., said she believes Obamacare will be a key issue of the 2014 elections. (AP File)

Sen. Kelly Ayotte: Time for a ‘time-out’ on Obamacare

Joseph Lawler · November 3, 2013 4:00 am

In this Sept. 18 file photo, employees of the Washington Navy Yard line up to enter through a gate two days after a gunman killed twelve people and was killed himself inside.ÃÂ Senators expressed frustration Thursday with the process used to grant security clearances to federal workers following the Edward Snowden leaks and Aaron Alexis' killing rampage at the Navy Yard.ÃÂ (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

National Security

Senate panel cites problems with security clearance process

Tim Mak · October 31, 2013 4:00 am

Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., center, joined by Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., right, speaks with reporters after a closed-door meeting with U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice about the deadly Sept. 11 raid in Libya, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012. They have been vocal opponents of Amb. Rice based on her comments following the deadly attack in Benghazi. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Sen. Kelly Ayotte: Senate reached deal to avoid default and reopen government

Associated Press · October 16, 2013 4:00 am

On Today, Sens. Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski and Kelly Ayotte.

GOP women senators demand deal, tell John Boehner ‘It’s not about speakership’

Paul Bedard · October 16, 2013 4:00 am

FILE - This file Image from the FBI website shows Al Qaeda leader Abu Anas al-Libi. Al-Libi, who was captured in an Oct. 5, 2013, raid and held aboard a U.S. warship, is now in the United States. He is expected to stand trial over whether he helped plan and conduct surveillance for the bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa in 1998. (AP Photo/FBI, File)

National Security

High-profile terror suspect taken to N.Y. to face trial

Susan Crabtree · October 14, 2013 4:00 am