2 days ago
The latest proposal may satisfy House Democrats: It calls for putting another $200 million toward education, which Dewhurst and Williams said would raise the total of restored cuts to $4.07 billion.
11 days ago
Democrats are eyeing the governor's race in 2014, expecting a rematch between Gov. Nikki Haley, a Lexington Republican, and state Sen. Vincent Sheheen, a Kershaw Democrat.
63 days ago
The top Democrat on the House Budget Committee says the Republicans' proposed budget is "the Romney plan on steroids."
65 days ago
House Democrat wants lethal aid for Syrian rebels
66 days ago
Congressional Democrats have written to President Barack Obama expressing concern that Japan's possible entry into ongoing trade talks among Pacific nations threatens the U.S. auto industry.
67 days ago
Y., agreed, but like others he thought Obama was more concerned with helping Democrats get elected than with taking tough steps to reduce the debt.
67 days ago
Even as Democrats controlling the Senate and the strongly conservative House moved in divergent directions, President Barack Obama again traveled to the Capitol to open a dialogue with lawmakers.
67 days ago
The New York lawmaker says Democrats will focus on two large states - Florida and Texas - and districts where Republican incumbents won with less than a 10 percent margin of victory.
68 days ago
Ryan said his budget would save $1.8 trillion over the decade by repealing the health care law, a virtual impossibility as long as Obama remains president and Democrats control the Senate.
69 days ago
Senate Democrats prepare government funding bill
71 days ago
Democrats control 55 seats in the Senate, after November elections in which they did better than expected and gained two seats to pad their majority.
80 days ago
But it would deny domestic agencies the same treatment, which has whipped up opposition from veteran Democrats on the Senate Appropriations Committee.
82 days ago
Smith, the top-ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, said his bill provides a pathway for muting the angry back-and-forth and shutting down the cuts before they run too deep.
89 days ago
"As a father of 3-year-old twins, the Sandy Hook massacre really brought home the dangers of guns in the wrong hands," said Jason Smith, a Fort Worth attorney and Democrat who proposed the...
90 days ago
A small group of Senate Democrats, because they represent conservative states such as North Carolina and Arkansas, could help derail ambitious plans to overhaul the nation's immigration laws.
90 days ago
A small group of Senate Democrats, because they represent conservative states such as North Carolina and Arkansas, could help derail ambitious plans to overhaul the nation's immigration laws.
94 days ago
Senate Democrats proposed a $110 billion plan Thursday to cut projected budget deficits and replace automatic spending cuts scheduled to take effect March 1.
94 days ago
Senate Democrats proposed a $110 billion plan Thursday to cut projected budget deficits and replace automatic spending cuts scheduled to take effect March 1.
95 days ago
"Boehner noted that while plenty of GOP defense hawks are anxious about the automatic cuts, Democrats concerned with cuts to domestic programs have a lot on the line, too.
102 days ago
The meeting with House Democrats follows Wednesday's vote in the Republican-controlled House that would require the president to submit a budget that balances the federal ledger.
108 days ago
Sen. Max Baucus, the powerful chairman of the tax-writing Finance Committee, might face his biggest challenge if a gun-control, or liberal, Democrat tries to wrest the nomination.- Louisiana.
113 days ago
As the Senate prepares to begin debating new gun control measures, some of President Barack Obama's fellow Democrats are poised to frustrate his efforts to enact the most sweeping limits in decades.
113 days ago
Democrats, especially those from gun-rights states, will be weighing whether to side with the NRA or follow the president, or how best to split the difference.
113 days ago
"The reason Democrats or progressives are winning is that Republicans got fat and happy," said Hanauer, who is now president of Project New America, a political data and strategy company in Denver.
115 days ago
Feinstein led the 1994 effort to pass an assault weapons in a Congress then controlled by Democrats.
