New York’s Bloomberg faces test in Chicago political gun battle
CHICAGO (Reuters) – New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s push for stricter U.S. gun laws in the wake of the Connecticut school massacre faces a stern test next week in a messy Chicago special election where he has piled in with more than $2 million in po…
Lawmakers target ECB to stop Iran from using euros
WASHINGTON/FRANKFURT (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers are crafting a bill designed to stop the European Central Bank from handling business from the Iranian government, a congressional aide said on Thursday, an attempt to keep Tehran from using euros to deve…
Gingrich’s jab at Rove shows conflicts within Republicans’ makeover
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – If there is anything more tense than the relations between Republicans and Democrats in Washington, it might be what is happening between two prominent Republicans: strategist Karl Rove and former House of Representatives Speaker…
Boehner says he hopes to avert scheduled spending cuts
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner on Wednesday said he hopes to avoid $85 billion in spending cuts set to kick in within weeks, and called on President Barack Obama and Democrats to offer a plan to avoid it…
Obama urges Congress to make government work for “the many”
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama challenged a divided Congress on Tuesday to raise the minimum wage and make government work for “the many” in a State of the Union speech focused on economic fairness for the middle class as the Democr…
Obama wants to show manufacturers some love and money
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – When the Volvo manufacturing plant shut its doors in Asheville, North Carolina, in 2010 and moved more than 200 jobs out of state, it was time for Ben Teague to go to work.
Texas and California spar over jobs and taxes
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Texas Governor Rick Perry’s latest sales pitch to California businesses boils down to four words: Texas is no California.
Bonus, budgets on agenda for Lew’s Senate grilling
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Jack Lew, President Barack Obama’s nominee to lead the U.S. Treasury Department, faces a grilling about a big bonus he received from Citigroup and his plans for the government’s finances when he testifies before a Senate panel on…
Analysis: Obama to Republicans – Can we just move on?
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama used his State of the Union address on Tuesday night to try to push past the fiscal battles that plagued his first term – and still threaten his second – as he laid out an agenda he hopes will shape his leg…
U.S. Senators, not House members, cross aisle for Obama speech
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – As President Barack Obama laid out his second-term agenda to Congress on Tuesday, Senate Democrats and Republicans made another attempt to show they were willing to set aside partisan differences by sitting next to their ostensib…
