By providing public financing for political campaigns , The law was meant to lessen the corrosive influence of special interests. ..…

Arizona is full of contrasts.  We have both high mountains and the low-lying valleys of Colorado River the human settlements within U.S borders going back to 2100 BC and lots of new construction for the influx of newcomers in the last few decades.. ..…

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump chose Brett Kavanaugh, solidly conservative, connected judge, for Supreme Court, setting up battle with Democrats as he seeks to shift the highest court ever further to the right.. ..…

FILE- In this Dec 5, 2017, file photo, former President Barack Obama address the participants at summit on climate change involving mayors from around Chicago. ..…

President Donald Trump accused Beijing of seeking to disrupt the U.S. midterm elections and steer votes in key battleground states toward Democratic candidates seeking to regain control of the House and Senate after years in the political wilderness. . ..…

But the doomsday scenarios played out one by one in Capitol Hill hearing room that was far from packed, and Republicans were absent from July event.. ..…

Capitol With the debate over gerrymandering making its way through Supreme Court, and suppression very much reality, the issue of representation for Black people remains in need of solutions. ..…

It passed in Senate 28-0. It passed in the House 52-3. And it's now just one Democratic Governor's signature away from becoming law.. ..…

As it has been since 2013, the public is divided over which party can best manage the government 41% say Democratic Party, while 40% say GOP.. GOP now controls both House and Senate, Republicans and Democrats hold similar views of Congress 29% of Democrats and 28% of Republicans..…

'It's about time someone in the Bush administration has been held accountable for the campaign to manipulate intelligence and discredit war critics,' said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat. . At the White House, deputy press secretary Dana Perino said President..…

Schumer, who as chairman of the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee hopes his party can make gains by painting the Bush White House as tainted by scandal. . ..…

White House had discussed lists of possible replacements, groups on the right and the left had prepared their position papers, and journalists had cataloged reasons why it was probable that one or more of the justices would bow out. ..…

Cui Xinyu Xinhua Corbis Egyptians attending vigil at Giza pyramids, near Cairo, for the victims of the recent attacks, on Paris, Beirut, and Russian jet that exploded over Sinai Peninsula, November 15, 2015 1.. ..…

By one vote of surviving filibuster, In 2010, following Citizens United, Democratic-controlled House passed bill requiring money accounts that contribute to federal campaigns to disclose their donors, and in Senate this bill fell short. ..…

Republicans took control of the Senate (53 to 46), the first time they had dominated either chamber since 1954. Although the House remained under Democratic control (243 to 192), their margin was actually much slimmer, because many southern “boll weevil” Democrats voted with the..…

prospect that Jamal Abdi and Trita Parsi of National Iranian American Council warn could mean war.. ..…

he October 2002 resolution authorizing the invasion had the support of the majority of Democratic senators, and the support of Democratic Party both House and Senate... Joe Lieberman, then Democratic and the party's 2000 vice nominee, positioned leaving..…

 He is,  evidently, known his piece, and his Twitter feed are all set to private. ..…

That measure, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, was passed with Democratic in House and Senate.. ..…

Not only did he, against all forecasts, get his own term in November; he restored Democratic majorities in both the House and Senate. ..…

By the summer of 2007, with Democratic majorities in House and Senate, only 24% of the public trusted the government. ..…

The election brought the nation Democratic Barack Obama and Democratic majorities in House and Senate. At the start of Obama administration, 30% of Republicans had favorable opinion of Democratic Party. ..…

one of Tea Party organizations, Tea Party Patriots, is already coming out guns-a-blazing against any lame duck effort to crack down on corporate spending in elections.. ..…

McInturff agreed this will be year for Democrats who are battling to retain control of Senate and reduce GOP's in House.. Obama sounded the alarm for his party on Tuesday during appearances at two Democratic fundraisers New York City, according to Washington Post. ..…

Suppressing congressional votes of American territorial delegates and District of Columbia, described was and is never about the merit, ideology, fairness or disfranchisement — it has always been about the balance of in congress. ..…

House — and maybe also the Senate — to Democratic control. . Participants include the Brady Campaign and Everytown for Gun Safety and other gun control organizations as well as the progressive group MoveOn.org and a number of Democratic lawmakers, including Sens. ..…