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Political convention planners going green
WASHINGTON -- Democrats claim that their convention in Denver next week will be the greenest ever.
Views: 1884 | Wednesday, August 20, 2008Joining Colbert Nation' may benefit Democrats
WASHINGTON -- Nation, many of you have heard about the satirically pompous late night TV comedian who claims that politicians who brave an appearance on his show will be swaddled in electoral mojo.
Democrats Prepare to Attack 'Grand Oil Party'
WASHINGTON -- As voters steam over gas prices, Republican congressional candidates are bracing for a gusher of ads attacking their ties to oil companies from now until November.
Bush Blocks House's Request for FBI Documents
WASHINGTON -- President Bush on Wednesday blocked an attempt by a House committee to obtain internal FBI documents from the CIA leak investigation, asserting that notes from interviews of Vice President Cheney and other White House officials are protected by executive privilege.
Lindsey Graham's role growing as McCain political confidant
WASHINGTON -- If Andrew Jackson created the notion of a president's "Kitchen Cabinet," Sen. John McCain is reinventing it months before his possible election to the White House.
GAO cites spiraling costs of new weapons programs
WASHINGTON -- The major weapons systems being developed and produced by the Defense Department will require $1.6 trillion to complete and $335 billion over the next five years -- money that may not be available because of the continuing cost of military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office.
Times Poll: Bush Is Sinking the Economy
WASHINGTON -- Three out of four Americans, including large numbers of Republicans, blame President Bush's economic policies for making the country worse off during the last eight years, according to a Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll released Wednesday, reflecting a sharp increase in public pessimism during the last year.
US eyes alleged Venezuela-based Hezbollah helpers
WASHINGTON --The Bush administration took action Wednesday against a Venezuelan official and others accused of providing financial support to the Hezbollah terror group.
U.S. hid terrorism suspects to avoid Red Cross, documents say
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. military hid the locations of suspected terrorist detainees and concealed harsh treatment to avoid the scrutiny of the International Committee of the Red Cross, according to documents that a Senate committee released Tuesday.
Now on to the veep guessing game
WASHINGTON -- The speculation is over. Let the speculation begin.
Speculation helping to drive oil price skyward, Senate panel hears
WASHINGTON -- One is a billionaire financier and the other operates seven gas stations and convenience stores in a farming community of 7,000 in eastern Washington state.
Experts call for a new green revolution to end world food crisis
WASHINGTON -- The world's deep hunger crisis could go on for years, and in the long run it'll take a new scientific agricultural revolution to help farmers in the poorest countries produce enough food, experts said Wednesday at congressional hearings.
Slideshow: Presidential candidates' feasting
StandardNET Extra: See photos of presidential candidates campaigning with foody.
Applicants for Citizenship Take To the Courts to Force Action
WASHINGTON -- Mark Sapir got fed up waiting years for immigration officials to act on his citizenship application. So the native of Russia did the most American thing he could think of: He filed a lawsuit.
White House Can't Find Backup E-Mail Files
WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration has not found disaster backup files for White House e-mails from a three-month time period in 2003, according to court documents filed this week, raising the possibility that messages sent before and after the invasion of Iraq may never be recovered.
Clinton Losing Traction in Two Key States, Poll Finds
WASHINGTON -- With three crucial Democratic primaries looming, Hillary Rodham Clinton might not be headed toward the victories she needs to jump-start her presidential bid -- even in Pennsylvania, the state that was supposed to be her ace in the hole, a new Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll has found.
Against McCain, Clinton bests Obama in swing-state polls
WASHINGTON -- Hillary Clinton is stronger than Barack Obama when pitted against John McCain, according to new polls of three major states that tend to swing between Democrats and Republicans in November elections.
McCain rejects Bush's foreign-policy tactics, but embraces his goals
WASHINGTON -- In a major speech, Sen. John McCain distanced himself Wednesday from President Bush's foreign-policy tactics but embraced Bush's foreign-policy goals.
Candidates battle new foes: Stress and fatigue
WASHINGTON -- Chris Carmichael knows a thing or two about endurance. He rode in the Olympics and coached a certain Lance Armstrong to seven consecutive Tour de France wins. The other day, he found himself watching two competitors on television and thinking, "Man, this is just incredibly grueling."
Real, not 'virtual,' fence called for to stop illegal immigrants
WASHINGTON -- As a farmer, Rep. Sam Graves says, he knows a thing or two about fences. And the Missouri Republican says he knows this for sure: It makes no sense to try to keep out illegal immigrants by building a "virtual fence" on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Protesters by the dozens
WASHINGTON -- To commemorate the fifth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the War Resisters League, Code Pink and other antiwar groups vowed to "shut down the IRS" with a "blockade" outside the agency's headquarters Wednesday.
Supreme Court upholds Washington state's top-two' primary
WASHINGTON -- Washington state's "top-two" primary was upheld 7-2 by the Supreme Court on Tuesday, but the justices seemed to leave the door ajar for additional legal challenges.
Obama's speech on race may have saved his campaign
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Barack Obama may have righted his shaken presidential campaign with his bold speech on race Tuesday, political analysts said.
Campaigns spar over importance of Obama primary wins in GOP states
WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama's primary victory in Mississippi on Tuesday raises a question: If a Democrat wins a Democratic primary in a Republican state, does it make a sound that can be heard in the fall?
Drug Firms Woo Democrats, Helping Defeat Their Bills
WASHINGTON -- The pharmaceutical industry, long an ally of Republicans, has increasingly worked itself into the good graces of the Democratic Party and by doing so has helped block the Democrats' top prescription-drug initiatives.
South Carolina's Sanford joins shortlist of possible McCain running mates
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- South Carolina's maverick Gov. Mark Sanford is getting the buzz, if not necessarily the love, over the possibility he could become John McCain's running mate.
CIA Director Confirms Use of Waterboarding
WASHINGTON -- CIA Director Michael V. Hayden said publicly for the first time Tuesday that his agency had used the harsh interrogation technique known as "waterboarding" on three al-Qaida suspects, and he testified that depriving the agency of coercive methods would "increase the danger to America."
What's next for Edwards?
RALEIGH, N.C. -- So what's next for former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards? Edwards has given no indication, but that hasn't stopped speculation.
Giuliani's exit speeded McCain endorsement, Schwarzenegger says
LOS ANGELES -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Thursday morning that former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani's departure from the presidential race led to his endorsement of Arizona Sen. John McCain, who he called a "fantastic, outstanding public servant."
Canada-United States entry rules change
WASHINGTON -- New federal rules taking effect Thursday that will make it harder to cross the Canadian border into the United States may produce confusion and delay without increasing national security, according to lawmakers and border-region officials.
Mukasey Won't Declare Waterboarding Illegal
WASHINGTON -- Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey on Tuesday left open the possibility that use of an interrogation method known as waterboarding could be legal in certain cases under U.S. and international law.
House extends eavesdropping law for 2 weeks while Senate seeks swift passage of FISA bill
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House on Tuesday voted to give two more weeks of life to a law that allows the government more freedom to eavesdrop on suspected terrorists inside the United States, an attempt to buy the logjammed Senate time to pass a bill to replace it.
Stopping fraud, or voters? Photo ID laws incite biggest voting legal battle since Bush v. Gore
There's the poor, 32-year-old mother of seven who says it would cost her at least $50 to vote in person. There's also the 92-year-old woman who's voted for decades in the same polling place, but now can't vote there because she let her driver's license expire when her eyesight began to fail.
Agencies digitizing documents
WASHINGTON -- They operate in different parts of the government, but both have decided to go digital and phase out their signature paper products
Obama leading Clinton in S.C. amid racial divide, poll finds
WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama leads Hillary Clinton in South Carolina, where their increasingly bitter rivalry has opened a deep racial divide among Democrats days before the party's first primary in the South on Saturday, according to a new McClatchy-MSNBC poll.
Candidates traverse 'the United States of Florida'
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Sen. John McCain, the Republican who arrived in Florida with the most momentum from early primary victories, drew a couple hundred people to a "town hall" meeting Thursday in the glittery Palm Beach County Convention Center.
For new voters, Democrats find race is not the issue
SAN FRANCISCO -- The front-runners for the Democratic presidential nomination realized something in the past week: Talking clumsily about race in America is the quickest way to turn off new voters and silence the buzz generated in the early weeks of the campaign.
Thompson looks to South Carolina for a good showing
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Fred Thompson likes to fire up the crowds at his campaign stops across South Carolina by declaring that he's "drawing a line in the sand" in their home state.
Michigan getting less attention from candidates than hoped
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- No more cozy gatherings in living rooms, no more up-close-and-personal encounters with the candidates.
Do political endorsements matter?
CHICAGO -- Word trickles out from a campaign that a "major endorsement" is expected. Then the name of the endorser is breathlessly leaked. Finally the endorser emerges -- at a rally, conference call, or simply by releasing a statement -- praising the candidate as the finest American leader since George Washington.
Rep. Lantos diagnosed with cancer, but says he'll finish term
WASHINGTON -- California Rep. Tom Lantos' decision to retire at the end of this year as he battles cancer of the esophagus will bring an end to an unlikely political career that took him from a daring escape from Nazi-controlled Hungary to an economics professorship at San Francisco State University to the chairmanship of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Focus turns to a changing New Hampshire
MANCHESTER, N.H. -- This is not your father's New Hampshire, as presidential candidates of both parties are about to learn Tuesday, when the state holds the first primary of the 2008 campaign.
Standardized Job Standards Coming for Intelligence Community
WASHINGTON -- The keepers of the nation's secrets soon will be evaluated against common standards on how well they analyze problems, share information and stand behind their professional judgments.
Even After Romney's "Mormon Speech", Many Americans Still Uncomfortable Voting for a Mormon
ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- One of the great unknowns, among many, of the 2008 primary campaign, is how voters will actually react to a Mormon candidate. Governor Mitt Romney, a Mormon, recently tried to alleviate lingering concerns in a speech akin to President Kennedy's "Catholic speech". The question is, did it work? In an effort to understand this issue, Harris Interactive(R) asked two similar questions of two different samples of U.S. adults in March 2007; one question focused on whether they would vote for an "equally qualified" Presbyterian versus a Baptist, the other a Presbyterian versus a Mormon. That Harris Poll showed that being a Mormon candidate is an electoral liability. After Governor Romney's speech, we decided to repeat the questions to see if opinions changed. Unfortunately for Romney, the answer is no, they did not.
Freshmen Padding Their Independence
WASHINGTON -- Half a dozen freshman Democrats took to the House floor one late-October morning to cast their lot with Republicans.
Doorknob market slowly closing in favor of levers
WASHINGTON -- The doorknob's days are numbered.
Sometimes a wall is really a wall
JERUSALEM --Language is one of the main battlegrounds in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Convicted dirty trickster sees GOP 'cover-up'
WASHINGTON -- A former GOP political operative who ran an illegal Election Day scheme to jam the phone lines of New Hampshire Democrats during the state's tight 2002 U.S. Senate election said in a new book and an interview that he believes the scandal reaches higher into the Republican Party.
Domenici Seeks to Expand Federal Loan Guarantees for Nuclear Plants
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Pete Domenici doesn't give up easily.
Rove, Bolten Found in Contempt of Congress
WASHINGTON -- A Senate panel found former presidential adviser Karl Rove and current White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten in contempt of Congress Thursday for refusing to testify and turn over documents in the investigation of the firings of nine U.S. attorneys last year.
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