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President Barack Obama has given the clearest signal yet that Chairman Ben Bernanke will likely leave the Federal Reserve when his term ends in January
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The White House is reporting progress on President Barack Obama's initiatives to reduce gun violence, but says the most important step would be getting a reluctant Congress to pass new firearms laws
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The abortion wars return to Congress in a big way with House legislation to ban almost all abortions after a fetus reaches the age of 20 weeks.
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There's good news for most companies that provide health benefits for their employees: America's slowdown in medical costs may be turning into a trend, rather than a mere pause
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Republicans' hopes to reclaim the White House in the 2016 elections hinge on whether they support -- or sabotage -- the immigration overhaul being debated in the Senate, two lawmakers who helped write the proposal warn.
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Republican Sen. John McCain is questioning President Barack Obama about political appointees' use of secret government email accounts to conduct official business
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Gov. Rick Perry is poking fun at New York ahead of his upcoming trip to convince employers there to move to Texas
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Senators are preparing to cast the first votes in the full Senate on a landmark bill that offers the best chance in decades to remake the nation's immigration system and offer eventual citizenship to millions
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Backers of far-reaching immigration legislation are turning their attention to courting support and counting votes after the Senate pushed the contentious bill over early procedural hurdles
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Lawmakers are voicing their confusion and concern, and some are calling for an end to sweeping surveillance programs by U.S. spy agencies after receiving an unusual briefing on the government's yearslong collection of phone records and Internet usage
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Five months after President Barack Obama called on lawmakers to approve his choice to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Senate is considering the nomination
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The No. 2 Republican in the House says Congress is "perplexed" about government eavesdropping and wants more answers from the Obama administration
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President Barack Obama will nominate Jason Furman, a veteran White House economic official, as chairman of the president's Council of Economic Advisers
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Former Massachusetts Gov. Argeo Paul Cellucci has died of complications from ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. He was 65
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The Obama administration on Thursday defended the National Security Agency's need to collect telephone records of U.S. citizens, calling such information 'a critical tool in protecting the nation from terrorist threats'
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President Barack Obama is spending the rest of this week promoting investments to help the middle class, raising money for fellow Democrats and engaging in diplomacy with China's new president
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A White House official says Tom Donilon is resigning as President Barack Obama's national security adviser and will be replaced by Susan Rice
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Senate debate on a far-reaching immigration bill is becoming a test of Sen. Marco Rubio's influence over fellow Republicans as the Florida conservative works to sell GOP lawmakers on landmark legislation that also may help determine the fate of his presidential ambitions
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says he wants to hold a special election in October to fill the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by Frank Lautenberg's death on Monday
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Actors Bradley Cooper and Glenn Close are among those gathering Monday at the White House for a conference on mental health, organized as part of President Barack Obama's response to last year's shooting massacre at a Connecticut elementary school
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Sen. John McCain says President Barack Obama is 'mired' in a series of scandals and must find a way to surmount them
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry plans to announce any day if he will seek re-election next year
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Legislative leaders said they are willing to make major revisions to Texas' voting maps at a hearing on Wednesday, possibly setting the stage for a lengthy special session intended to end the fight over redistricting
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A Republican senator and a congressman from Ohio said Wednesday night that the key question about the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status is who in the Obama administration was involved
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The government's subsidized student loan program, a marquee issue for President Barack Obama last year as he courted young voters on the campaign trail, is back on the White House agenda one month before a scheduled interest rate increase. But Obama's push to avoid the increase is far more low-key than it was in the election year
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The Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative political groups has little if anything to do with most everyday taxpayers, but some lawmakers are hoping attention to the budding scandal will swell public and political support for rewriting and simplifying a federal tax code that has undergone some 5,000 changes in the past dozen years
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Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, a conservative firebrand, presidential candidate and favorite of tea party Republicans, said Wednesday she will not run for another term in the U.S. House
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President Barack Obama is looking to get his groove back -- at the beach
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More than any other group, the high-tech industry got big wins in an immigration bill approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee last week, thanks to a concerted lobbying effort, an ideally positioned Senate ally and relatively weak opposition.
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If Republicans were writing a movie script right now for next year's congressional elections, the working title might be '2014: Apocalypse of Obamacare'
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Republicans keep slamming President Barack Obama's push to move away from a war footing and recalibrate his counterterrorism strategy
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With a competitive mayoral race looming, we can expect to see millions of dollars spent. What we won't see are voters flocking to the polls
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Anthony Weiner got a supportive reception Thursday during the first appearance of his New York City mayoral campaign
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President Barack Obama is set to at least partially lift the veil of secrecy surrounding U.S.-directed drone strikes around the world, a key component of counterterrorism strategy, as he outlines the contours of the continuing threat to American security
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A stalemate over a Texas budget deal ended late Wednesday when the House and Senate finally backed down and approved major pieces of a roughly $100 billion spending package that is the only necessary order of business left for the Legislature
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The Internal Revenue Service official at the center of the storm over the agency's targeting of conservative groups told Congress on Wednesday that she had done nothing wrong in the episode, and then invoked her constitutional right to refuse to answer lawmakers' questions
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The man who led the Internal Revenue Service when it was giving extra scrutiny to tea party and other conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status told Congress on Tuesday that he knew little about what was happening while he was still commissioner
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President Barack Obama is telling graduates of Morehouse College to take the power of their example -- as black men graduating from college -- and use it to improve people's lives.
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A top White House adviser insisted President Barack Obama learned the Internal Revenue Service had targeted tea party groups only "when it came out in the news" while Republicans continued to press the administration for answers on Sunday
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Five months into President Barack Obama's second term, allies and former top aides worry that his overarching goal of economic opportunity has been diminished, partly drowned out by controversies seized upon by Republicans in an effort to weaken him
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The Internal Revenue Service is feeling the sort of heat that targeted taxpayers feel from the tax agency. It's the sense that a powerful someone is breathing down your neck
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The White House release of some 100 pages of emails and notes about the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, last year has failed to satisfy congressional Republicans, who are demanding more information.
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Several veterans of the Obama presidential campaigns have relocated to the Lone Star State and have been introducing this fledgling effort in various venues
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The president went on to say that anyone involved in targeting conservative groups needs to be "held fully accountable"
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A diplomat who wrote a report about security at the U.S. outpost in Benghazi is standing by that assessment but also absolving Hillary Rodham Clinton of blame
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A school board election for a South Texas district has been decided by one vote
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From bond to board elections, voters across our area were left to make big decisions Saturday; check some of the results
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