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Ohio bill would ban realistic toy guns

Red Alert Politics

Ohio bill would ban realistic toy guns

Maria Santos · March 13, 2015 8:11 pm

Senate Foreign Relations Western Hemisphere Subcommittee Ranking Member Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., questions witnesses during a hearing on Cuba on Capitol Hill in Washington Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2015. Boxer defended the Obama administration after Sen. Bob Menendez complained that the U.S. won no concessions from President Raul Castro's government and demanded that Cuba extradite a woman convicted of killing a policeman from his state. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Energy and Environment

States fling criticism at EPA’s power plant rules

John Siciliano · March 12, 2015 9:00 am

Senate to call Reid’s bluff on closing Yucca nuke dump

Energy and Environment

Senate to call Reid’s bluff on closing Yucca nuke dump

Paul Bedard · March 5, 2015 6:54 pm

3 GOP senators push plan B to Supreme Court Obamacare ruling

3 GOP senators push plan B to Supreme Court Obamacare ruling

Robert King · March 2, 2015 3:08 pm

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch wants the Obama administration to provide information about a secretive opt-out provision provided to health insurance companies on the federal exchange. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Top Senate Republican questions secretive opt-out policy for health insurers

Susan Ferrechio · February 25, 2015 7:13 pm

Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell wrote to Sen. Hatch Tuesday, effectively saying that the administration has no alternative plan to Obamacare. (Washington Examiner/Graeme Jennings)

Administration: No Obamacare contingency plan

Paige Winfield Cunningham · February 25, 2015 12:02 am

"Why did you decide to wait until the close of open enrollment [on Feb. 15] to announce this mistake?" asked Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch.

GOP pounces on Obamacare tax form error

Robert King · February 23, 2015 8:13 pm

President Obama, followed by Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., and Rep. John Duncan, R-Tenn., arrives at McGhee Tyson Airport on Jan. 9, 2015. On flight, Obama pledged to work with GOP on some issues. (Photo: Carolyn Kaster, AP)

Washington Secrets

Obama warned to change his ‘attitude’ to save his legacy

Paul Bedard · February 23, 2015 5:41 pm

GOP plans overhaul for Social Security disability

Joseph Lawler · February 23, 2015 10:00 am

Sen. Lamar Alexander. AP Photo

Washington Secrets

Race on to speed OK of new drugs, devices

Paul Bedard · February 12, 2015 9:20 pm

"Why do we have to play this game of wait until the deadline in order to pass these things?" asked Rep. Tom Reed, R-N.Y. "Let's just do it, and get it done permanently." (AP)

There’s an inevitable showdown coming on taxes

Joseph Lawler · February 12, 2015 10:00 am

Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, said the mark-up of the bills "is an opportunity for the committee to clear the deck and advance common-sense tax bills that have garnered strong bipartisan support within the Congress." (AP)

Senate panel to take up raft of tax bills

Joseph Lawler · February 9, 2015 8:29 pm