U.S. small businesses lobby for survival of embattled Ex-Im Bank
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – If the battle over the U.S. Export-Import Bank is Washington’s latest political tempest, then Don Nelson from Bakersfield, California is aiming at the eye of the storm.
Congress the butt of Obama’s climate science jokes
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama lampooned congressional skepticism over climate change on Wednesday, saying that lawmakers who balk at tackling air pollution are either blind to science or cowed by extremists.
IRS official may have sought audit involving Republican senator: emails
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A former U.S. Internal Revenue Service official at the center of a controversy over the tax agency’s treatment of Tea Party groups sent emails in which she appears to seek an audit involving a Republican senator, according to doc…
Insurance legislation for ridesharing advances in California
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A bill that would impose insurance requirements on ridesharing companies in California passed a state Senate committee 9-1 on Wednesday, although with somewhat lower costs to the industry than previously written into the bill….
Change in Miss. voting rules seen unlikely despite Tea Party anger
HATTIESBURG Miss. (Reuters) – Tea Party Republicans in Mississippi on Wednesday railed against an election rule that allowed Democrats, many of them black, to tilt a bitterly fought Republican U.S. Senate primary runoff to incumbent Thad Cochran. But o…
Two top Veterans Affairs officials leave agency, VA says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Department of Veterans Affairs on Wednesday announced the departure of two senior officials in the wake of a scandal over concealed and extensive delays in providing medical care for veterans.
Arizona governor feels immigrant kids’ pain, blames White House
NOGALES Arizona (Reuters) – Arizona’s Republican Governor Jan Brewer said on Wednesday that as a mother it broke her heart to see the plight of illegal immigrant children, and that she blamed the federal government for failing to send a message that th…
Arizona governor feels immigrant kids’ pain, blames White House
NOGALES Arizona (Reuters) – Arizona’s Republican Governor Jan Brewer said on Wednesday that as a mother it broke her heart to see the plight of illegal immigrant children, and that she blamed the federal government for failing to send a message that th…
Nebraska lawyer aims to be trust-busting U.S. senator
(Reuters) – A Nebraska lawyer is trying to breathe life into an old-fashioned antitrust movement with a campaign for the U.S. Senate based partly on breaking apart the country’s biggest banks and blocking consolidation among meatpackers.
Plans for F-35 UK debut still on despite flight suspensions
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Flights of Lockheed Martin Corp’s LMT.N F-35 fighter jets remained suspended on Wednesday as Air Force officials investigated a fire that damaged one of the jets on Monday, but the Marine Corps said it still plans to send jets to…
