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WASHINGTON - Declaring America's middle class is "under assault," President Barack Obama unveiled plans yesterday to help hurting families pay bills, save for retirement and care for kids and aging parents. His comments previewed tomorrow's State of the Union Address.
While Thursday's U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning a ban on corporate spending in federal elections represents a seismic shift in national politics, its impact on New York State campaign finance law remains to be seen.
Rep. Tim Bishop (D-Southampton)
How he would vote on Senate health care bill: no
Nearly one year ago, President Barack Obama signed his poorly thought-out executive order to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay Naval Station in Cuba — releasing or transferring all detainees — “no later than one year” after taking office.
WASHINGTON - After becoming one of the most outspoken critics of the White House over the attempted terrorist attack on Christmas Day, Rep. Peter King (R-Seaford) Thursday offered his support to President Barack Obama.
"The president has acted," King said following Obama's speech taking responsibility for security mistakes and ordering intelligence improvements.
Government auditors have found that since 2008, the FBI has had problems handling the nation's special terrorist watch list - sometimes taking too long to place subjects on the list, or to remove them once they were no longer of investigative interest.
Republican Congressman Peter King, said Wednesday that President Obama and his senior security agency chiefs had not learned the lessons taught by the failed Christmas Day bomb plot.
The trial of terror suspect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is now expected to cost New York City in the "low hundreds of millions of dollars" for security, a substantial increase from the original estimate of $75 million, Sen. Charles Schumer said Monday.
The partisan battle over President Barack Obama’s handling of terrorism turned Sunday to Yemen – as the White House defended temporarily shutting the embassy there while Republicans called it a sign of weakness.
The Obama administration shuttered the U.S. embassy in Yemen because there's an active threat that Al Qaeda might attack the compound, the President's top counterterrorism adviser said Sunday.
"It was the prudent thing to do to shut the embassy," said John Brennan, deputy national security adviser, on ABC's "This Week."