Uncertainty about federal funding for programs such as Medicaid, the joint state-federal health insurance for low-income Americans, prompted many states to craft cautious spending plans for the current budget year, said John Hicks, executive director of the National Association of State Budget..…

Other political clients include nearly all Democratic members of the United States Congress. It has also represented several presidential campaigns, including those of John Kerry, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton. ..…

The carbon-fee bill presented to Congress by Connecticut Democrat John Larson was a mere twenty-one pages long, as opposed to the main cap-and-trade bill being considered by Congress which ran to over 1,500 pages. ..…

His main interest is presidential power in its perennial struggle with Congress and the courts. Ultimately, the stakes are high: whether we will continue to have, in John Adams’s words, “government of laws, and not of men.”3 . ..…

Biggest problem with government? Congress, politics cited most often . ..…

Views of Congress have changed little over the past four years. (This question was asked in late September, as John Boehner announced he was resigning as House speaker. ..…

For instance, House of Representatives had 69 Catholic Republicans at the beginning of the current, 114th Congress group that has doubled in size in the last six years and includes House Speaker John A. ..…

The appellate judges - including John G. Roberts Jr., who was sworn in Sept. 29 as chief justice of the United States - said Congress had given the president all the authority he needed when it passed the resolution authorizing Bush to use 'all necessary and appropriate force' to fight..…

Constitution spells out specifically who may run for Congress, and those qualifications -- U.S citizenship, age and residency -- are the only ones, fixed and unalterable, wrote Justice John Paul Stevens, 20-year court veteran and the in seniority... ..…

The unusual public accounting, and Gonzales' embrace of what he called 'technical modifications' in the law, seemed to be an attempt to strike a more conciliatory tone than his predecessor, John Ashcroft, whose support for the law was often viewed in Congress as unyielding. . ..…

Fast for Families stood on the steps of State Capitol Friday as part of national tour to urge Congress to support immigration reform legislation. John Kline to help persuade Speaker of House John Boehner to allow Senate immigration reform bill to be voted on in House, the hunger strikers..…

Congress, but hawks in the U.S. State Department were itching for a new war. . Secretary of State John Kerry delivered a bellicose speech on Aug. 30, 2013, amid expectations that the U.S. bombs would start flying within days. ..…

American people deserve to have this decision debated and made in the open, with all the facts and arguments laid out for public review and debate, followed by Congressional vote. he should call Congress back into session and seek Constitutionally-required authorization... Republican House..…

John Zaller . Zaller said the public isn’t pleased with its elected leaders’ partisanship. “The public is fed up with Congress for being partisan. That doesn’t get very many [of them] defeated though,” he said. . ..…

But experts say plethora of other pressures, are just as, if not more, influential to Congress as are Americans they represent.. It creates politicians whose primary care is for the group, not the voter, said John Zaller, scientist at University of California, Los Angeles. ..…

In the wake of Watergate, when many Americans felt that the U.S. was running a secret government, Congress was finally forced to end COINTELPRO (at least officially). ..…

John McCain also opposes gay marriage, he voted against the federal marriage amendment in Congress. . ..…

Congress’ Favorability Falls . Public views of Congress as an institution are at their lowest point in over a decade. ... While views of government, Congress and the political parties have sagged, public satisfaction with the news media has rebounded over the past few years. ..…

All Social Security taxes collected are immediately deposited in the federal treasury and spent by the government. . Congress can increase Social Security taxes at any time without increasing Social Security benefits. . ..…

Because if 535 members of Congress all do that, that’s how we bankrupt this country.” . Senate Minority Whip John Cornyn of Texas, who fended off a Tea Party challenge in the Republican primary a week ago, offers a somewhat contrary view. ..…

(Source: Library of Congress) The story is well known: on April 14, 1865, actor John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theater. ..…