Tag: PennAve

Sen. Rob Portman recently acknowledged in a CNN interview that if he were to run for president, "I'd be an asterisk in the polls."Â (Mark Wilson/Getty images)

Could Portman’s presidential flirtations help him in the future?

Rebecca Berg · December 3, 2014 5:07 pm

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich., and the committee's ranking Republican, James Inhofe of Oklahoma, said in a joint statement that the House is expected to pass the bill without changes by the end of the week and they would ask the Senate to take it up next week without allowing amendments.Â (AP Photo)

National Security

Congressional negotiators agree to hold line on military pay

Charles Hoskinson · December 3, 2014 4:44 pm

Vice President Joe Biden administers the ceremonial Senate oath to Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., during a ceremony in the Old Senate Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014. Scott's mother Frances Scott holds the bible. Earlier, Scott was officially sworn in by Biden of the floor of the Senate. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Tim Scott self-imposes a term limit on his time in Washington

Kelly Cohen · December 3, 2014 4:37 pm

image from CSPAN, via New York Daily News.

Dems who raised hands for Ferguson voted against limiting police militarization

Kelly Cohen · December 3, 2014 3:48 pm

Obama to host McConnell at the White House

Brian Hughes · December 3, 2014 2:50 pm

Energy and Environment

GOP hoists ax over green tax break

Zack Colman · December 3, 2014 10:00 am

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., accompanied by the committee's ranking member, Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 27, 2014. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

National Security

Top Dem to White House: Anti-sanctions argument ‘non-starter’

Susan Crabtree, Charles Hoskinson · December 3, 2014 10:00 am

Carter is expected to have a fairly easy time Senate confirmation, having been confirmed unanimously to his two previous posts. (Getty File Photo/Chip Somodevilla)

Carter a ‘rare leader’ who understands Pentagon policy and budget

Charles Hoskinson · December 3, 2014 10:00 am

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., speaks to reporters as he leaves the Senate chamber after a roll call vote, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

National Security

Republicans show support for Obama’s expected pick for Pentagon chief

Sean Lengell · December 3, 2014 1:13 am

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., speaks to reporters as he leaves the Senate chamber after a roll call vote, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

McCain: Justice Dept. dragging its feet on Petraeus probe

Sean Lengell · December 2, 2014 11:07 pm

President Barack Obama listens to Dr. Nancy Sullivan of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, during a tour of the Vaccine Research Center at the National Institutes of Health, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014, in Bethesda, Md. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama presses Congress on Ebola funding

Brian Hughes · December 2, 2014 11:04 pm

Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama said the House plan does nothing to stop Obama's executive action, which would allow more than 4 million people now living here illegally to apply for work permits and eventually obtain Social Security and Medicare benefits. (Photo by T.J. Kirkpatrick/Getty images)

Sessions denounces House GOP plan to fund government

Susan Ferrechio · December 2, 2014 10:15 pm