Minneapolis assistant police Chief Sharon Lubinski has become the first openly U.S. marshal.
Lubinski has served a number of roles with the Minneapolis Police. She was also a sheriff’s deputy in Wisconsin.
The U.S. Senate confirmed the Green Bay, Wis. native to be the U.S. marshal for the Minnesota district.
An attempt to blow up a trans-Atlantic flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day would be all-consuming for the administrator of the Transportation Security Administration - if there was one.
DeMint, in a statement, said that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallabs attempted terror attack in Detroit “is a perfect example of why the Obama administration should not [...]
House Democrats aren’t optimistic that a government insurance plan, a central element of health care legislation passed in their chamber, will survive negotiations with the Senate.
“Before the House was to give up the public option, we would want to be persuaded that there are other mechanisms in whatever bill comes out that will keep down [...]
Any health-care legislation thatreaches President Barack Obamas desk will be close to theversion the Senate passed last week, top Democrats saidyesterday.
If we are going to have a final law, it will look a lotmore like the Senate version than the House version, Menendezsaid on Fox News Sunday. Im sure therell be somecompromises, but at the [...]
SPEAKERS: JAKE TAPPER, GUEST HOST
SEN. MITCH MCCONNELL, R-KY., SENATE MINORITY LEADER
WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY ROBERT GIBBS
Merry Christmas, and thanks for joining us.
[*] TAPPER: And now well turn to the presidents chief spokesman and close adviser, Robert Gibbs.
TAPPER: The terrorist attack almost happened, had it not been for a faulty detonator.
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley may be the front-runner in the race to fill the late Edward M. Kennedy’s U.S. Senate seat, but she is crafting a campaign largely free of the Kennedy mystique.
But unlike her three Democratic rivals in the recent primary, Coakley refrained from invoking Kennedy’s name or image in her TV ads.
How many Americans will get subsidized medical coverage - plus who will pay for it - will be front-burner issues when Congress returns next month to complete President Barack Obama’s health care remake.
The negotiations are the last chance for Democrats to shape the legislation to deliver concrete benefits to Americans skeptical that it will help [...]
Senate Democrats, after securing ahard-fought Christmas Eve victory on health-care legislation,now move toward a battle over taxes and other issues with theU.S. House as lawmakers look to merge their differing bills.
The administration is aiming for a compromise to passaround the time of Obamas State of the Union message, probablyin late January, and before the budget [...]
The US Senate voted Thursday to increase the nations debt limit by 290 billion dollars to allow the government to issue new bonds and maintain operations.
The legislation lifts the US debt ceiling to 12.394 trillion dollars, giving Washington about another two months of operating costs.
The 60-39 Senate vote followed approval last week by the House [...]
The Senate on Thursday approved Miriam Sapiro to be deputy U.S. trade representative for Europe and the Americas, filling one of several still vacant slots on President Barack Obamas senior trade team.
Her nomination had been blocked for months by Senator Jim Bunning, a Republican from the tobacco-growing state of Kentucky who hoped to exert pressure [...]
