Tag: Senate

President Obama speaks during a joint news conference with Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, April 17, 2015. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)

Obama downplays Democratic divisions over Fast Track

Susan Crabtree · April 17, 2015 7:11 pm

President Obama wants Fast Track passed before he submits the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a 12-Pacific-Rim-nation trade deal, to Congress for approval. (AP Photo)Â

Tax reform hits roadblock: Small businesses

Joseph Lawler · April 17, 2015 9:00 am

Orrin Hatch talks with reporters on his way to the Senate Chamber on April 3, 2014 in Washington. (Photo by T.J. Kirkpatrick/Getty Images)

Bill announced to give Obama trade authority

Sean Higgins · April 16, 2015 7:46 pm

Sen. Barbara Boxer wants "heads to roll" at the government's nuclear regulator for misrepresenting a critical review of a California nuclear plant.Â (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Energy and Environment

Boxer wants ‘heads to roll’ at nuclear regulator

John Siciliano · April 15, 2015 5:31 pm

As Sen. Orrin Hatch noted, "Reforming our international tax system is a critical step on the road toward comprehensive tax reform." (AP Photo)Â

Hatch to IRS: Abandon rule for regulating political nonprofits

Joseph Lawler · April 13, 2015 10:58 pm

Boxer: ‘My Heart’s Beating a Little Faster Today’

Daniel Halper · April 12, 2015 3:21 pm

Portable funding, also known as "backpack funding" because it follows the child, was included as an option in a draft bill and a K-12 education reform bill that passed the House education committee in February. (AP Photo)Â

Beltway Confidential

Dems stubbornly refuse to embrace any form of school choice

Jason Russell · April 11, 2015 9:00 am

"To force Congress to weigh in now on the Iran nuclear talks before a final deal has been completed would be a reckless rush to judgment," Barbara Boxer wrote in a letter to Bob Corker.(AP Photo)

Boxer seeks delay of Iran bill markup

Charles Hoskinson · April 8, 2015 11:00 pm

Senate education committee chairman Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., right, and ranking member Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Breakthrough ‘No Child’ deal would loosen federal meddling in schools

Paul Bedard · April 7, 2015 7:32 pm

Lauren McGarity McFerran was approved by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Tuesday to be the newest member of the National Labor Relations Board, the federal agency that enforces labor law. (AP Photo)

Republicans target NLRB in attempt to roll back ‘micro-unions’

Sean Higgins · March 19, 2015 10:51 pm

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan called on the president to work with Congress to reform the system. (Getty Images photos)

GOP warns Obama against executive action to raise taxes

Susan Ferrechio · March 18, 2015 4:58 pm

Is the Loretta Lynch nomination unraveling?

Susan Ferrechio · March 18, 2015 9:00 am