Tag: Steve Contorno

Saxby Chambliss: ‘Chatter’ from terrorists ‘most serious threat I’ve seen’ in years

Saxby Chambliss: ‘Chatter’ from terrorists ‘most serious threat I’ve seen’ in years

Steve Contorno · August 4, 2013 4:00 am

President Obama is scheduled to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin next month. (AP File)

Chuck Schumer calls for Obama to cancel meeting with Vladimir Putin

Steve Contorno · August 4, 2013 4:00 am

Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, left, and GreenTech Automotive chairman Terry McAuliffe take a quick spin in the plant after the unveiling of the company's new electric MyCar. (AP/Rogelio V. Solis)

Terry McAuliffe’s former car company probed by SEC

Steve Contorno · August 2, 2013 4:00 am

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi at a press conference on Capitol Hill, where she told reporters that Congress has too much critical, unfinished work to be leaving for a five-week recess in August. (Graeme Jennings/WashingtonExaminer)

Nancy Pelosi takes parting shots at GOP before House leaves town

Steve Contorno · August 2, 2013 4:00 am

Louisville and Michigan tip off in the NCAA national championship game in Atlanta in April. (AP/David J. Phillip)

New bipartisan bill would reform NCAA, college sports

Steve Contorno · August 1, 2013 4:00 am

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said conservatives see the defund effort as âthe single best time to kill Obamacare.â (Examiner/Graeme Jennings)

Conservative groups threaten GOP lawmakers to defund Obamacare

Steve Contorno · August 1, 2013 4:00 am

Virginia's two senators, Sen. Mark Warner, right, and Sen. Tim Kaine, shrugged off questions Tuesday into whether McDonnell should step down from office amid a FBI probe into his relationship with businessman Jonnie Williams. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Tim Kaine, Mark Warner steer clear of Gov. Bob McDonnell’s problems

Steve Contorno · July 31, 2013 4:00 am

Sens. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., and Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., say the 1.7 percent improvement in the nation's economy is too low. (AP File)

Democrats blame Republicans, sequester for slow economic recovery

Steve Contorno · July 31, 2013 4:00 am

House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer on Tuesday called this yearâs session âthe least productive Congress in which I have served.â (AP/ Evan Vucci)

Steny Hoyer calls 2013 Congress ‘least productive’ of his tenure

Steve Contorno · July 30, 2013 4:00 am

Kevin Gundlach, center, president of the South Central Federation of Labor, during The Fire Still Burns rally outside the Capitol in Madison, Wis., on Feb. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/The Capital Times, Michelle Stocker)

The moment that made Scott Walker

Steve Contorno · July 26, 2013 4:00 am

One Republican close to Gov. Scott Walker said many in the party fret that he could be haunted on a national campaign trail by his failure to finish college. But others said Walker's mastery of retail politics will blunt voter worries and boost his chances in New Hampshire and Iowa. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Traveling man: Wisconsin’s Scott Walker shuttles to Iowa and other battleground states to ignite bid for presidency

Steve Contorno · July 26, 2013 4:00 am

Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn. (AP/Charles Dharapak)

House Ethics Committee continues probe of Michele Bachmann

Steve Contorno · July 26, 2013 4:00 am