Former Massachusetts Senator Brown to come out swinging on Obamacare in New Hampshire
BOSTON (Reuters) – Republican Scott Brown, a former Massachusetts Senator, plans to launch his campaign to represent New Hampshire in the U.S. Senate on Thursday with an attack on incumbent Democrat Jeanne Shaheen’s vote for Obamacare.
Congress turns GM probe focus to engineers, considers legislation
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers investigating General Motors’ slow recall of 2.6 million cars are zeroing in on engineers and others who may have been aware of problems with ignition switches linked to at least 13 deaths.
Politics in his future? Detroit case has ‘done me in’, Orr says
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Detroit’s emergency manager Kevyn Orr had political ambitions – once.
Democratic senators press Obama for Keystone decision by May 31
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Eleven U.S. Democratic senators on Thursday urged President Barack Obama to make a final decision on whether to approve TransCanada Corp’s Keystone XL crude oil pipeline from Canada to the U.S. Gulf Coast no later than May 31.
House panel urges prosecution for ex-IRS official in Tea Party case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. House of Representatives committee has asked the Justice Department to consider criminal prosecution for a former U.S. Internal Revenue Service official who played a key role in last year’s Tea Party scandal at the IRS.
Ex-Christie aides can withhold ‘Bridgegate’ papers: New Jersey judge
(Reuters) – Two former top aides to New Jersey Governor Chris Christie do not have to turn over documents subpoenaed by a state legislative committee investigating the “Bridgegate” traffic scandal, a New Jersey Superior Court judge ruled on Wednesday.
New voting laws roll back U.S. civil rights strides of 1960s: Bill Clinton
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – Restrictions on voting rights in conservative states endanger the core of the U.S. civil rights movement and force Americans to recreate “a yesterday we’re better off done with,” former President Bill Clinton said on Wednesday…
Obama blasts ‘least productive Congress in modern history’
HOUSTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama sharply criticized what he called the least productive U.S. Congress in modern history on Wednesday in a fund-raising speech that he used to try to energize Democrats to vote in November congressional election…
McCain blasts Navy’s LCS ship plan; urges cut to 24 vessels
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Senator John McCain on Wednesday blasted the U.S. Navy’s new Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program as a “shameful” and dangerous waste of taxpayer money, and he urged the Pentagon to cut its planned purchases back by another eight s…
Ex-Christie aides can withhold ‘Bridgegate’ papers: New Jersey judge
(Reuters) – Two former top aides to New Jersey Governor Chris Christie do not have to turn over documents subpoenaed by a state legislative committee investigating the “Bridgegate” traffic scandal, a New Jersey Superior Court judge ruled on Wednesday.
