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One of my favorite theories for how Democrats could speed the passage of a health care reform bill is the single bullet/ping-pong strategy where the Senate passes a bill and then asks the House to pass it with no or few changes.

U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., wants Goldman Sachs & Co. to pay back $13 billion in federal bailout funds and have that money be used to help spur job creation.

President Obama 's decision to send more troops to Afghanistan over the objections of fellow Democrats on Capitol Hill is straining a relationship already struggling under the weight of an administration agenda that some Democratic lawmakers fear is placing them in a politically vulnerable position.

By Ben Pershing The White House jobs summit opens today amid concerns on Capitol Hill that the administration has not done enough to boost unemployment and uncertainty over how and when Congress can deliver a jobs bill to the president's desk.

The Obama administration sent what many lawmakers saw as vague and sometimes confusing signals Wednesday about its intentions in Afghanistan, leaving members of Congress unsure how to proceed as they consider a plan to deploy 30,000 more American troops there.

Steele: GOP "Purity Test" May Not Come To Vote >> For most of the public policy decisions in the first 10 months of his presidency, President Obama has enjoyed the backing of the liberal wing of his party.

Sen. John McCain urged the chairman of a Senate committee Tuesday to schedule a vote before year's end on a controversial federal land swap that could bring North America's largest copper mine and 1,400 jobs to a site just east of Superior.

College offers a world of opportunities that would never be possible without it, Yuma's congressman told an assembly of AVID and GEAR UP students at Yuma High School Tuesday.

President Barack Obama will unveil his long-awaited Afghanistan strategy in a prime-time address from West Point, N.Y., on Dec.

Nov. 19, 2009: More than 60,000 people gathered in community centers, churches, restaurants, union halls, and living rooms across the United States, participating in a national telephonic town hall on immigration reform on Nov.

As opposition grows among his own base of liberal Democrats, President Barack Obama is bracing for a tough sell of his apparent decision to commit tens of thousands of new U.S. forces to the stalemated war in Afghanistan.

The impacts of the recession and the economic stimulus on Yuma County's Hispanic residents will be the focus Tuesday of a live radio broadcast in Spanish on KAWC.

The way the federal government requires stimulus grant recipients to report spending and job creation has led to incomplete and often misleading information being posted on the government Web site designed to keep track of the data.

Organizers described them as immigration reform "house parties." Across the country last night, in churches, schools, immigrant support centers and private homes, backers of immigration reform gathered around telephones as Hispanic U.S. legislators laid out the strategy for pushing a reform of the immigration system in 2010.

Liberal lawmakers from US President Barack Obama's Democratic Party have voiced concern to him about sending more troops to Afghanistan, saying that US objectives remained ill-defined. Five members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus wrote to Obama seeking a meeting as he nears a decision on whether to reinforce the 68,000 US troops who will be ...

Having upset her liberal base with one trade-off after another before finally passing the House's healthcare bill with just two votes to spare, Speaker Pelosi moves to a bigger test: keeping her fragile Democratic coalition together.

Nevada is one of six Western states that has land under study by the Obama administration as part of its effort to find locations for large-scale solar power installations.

In Iraq, 50 women became the first female graduates Nov. 9 of the country's police officer training academy, The New York Times reported.

Camarillo, Calif., Nov 4, 2009 A new exhibition, "Bittersweet Harvest: The Bracero Program, 1942-1964," recently opened at the Washington, D.C. Smithsonian National Museum of American History .

On 63 acres in the picturesque Santa Cruz Valley, Stewart Loew raises cattle and grows organic lettuce, onions, pumpkins and other produce.