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GOP senator freezes health care debate
WASHINGTON (CNN) – As Democrats scrambled to meet self-imposed deadlines, Senate Republicans froze the health care debate for at least a day Wednesday by insisting that a 767-page mega-amendment be...
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American Sauce: What exactly is the GOP changing?
Washington (CNN) - November's vote for change (2010 version), starts becoming reality this week. Exiting members of Congress lose their office space and the small army of new members and Speaker-elect...
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American Sauce: Big vote cheat sheet, jobless Congressmen and health care action
Washington (CNN) – Congress is making two years worth of decisions now, while the rest of the world is at the mall, packing up the car and otherwise bracing for Christmas and New Year's. This week's...
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Top 5 Key Supreme Court Soundbites
Washington (CNN) – The Supreme Court arguments Tuesday may be the most pivotal 120 minutes of judicial interaction in decades. (Nit-pickers: Bush v. Gore was 90 minutes.) But not everyone has two hours...
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Ron Paul backers' plan: Transform the GOP
Arlington, Virginia (CNN) - Ron Paul supporters have a plan. As they doggedly work the Republican system from the ground up, electing more of their team as delegates to the Republican National...
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Embed America: Voters question if this election matters
Kensington, NH (CNN) – In fiery speeches and fundraising pleas, both sides in the 2012 presidential contest are stressing one common theme: This is a critical election year. It matters. Voters may see...
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Embed America: What The Candidates Don't Know About Jobs
Lewiston, Maine (CNN) - There are a dozen issues Embed America is covering first hand this month, crisscrossing the highways of America. None of them gets more time at the political podium than jobs....
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The war over coal is personal
Editor's note: Embed America is a partnership between CNN Radio and CNN iReport. This series tells the story of the 2012 U.S. presidential election through the people most critical to the campaigns:...
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The problem with presidential debates
(CNN) -– For 25 years, a private non-profit group of roughly a dozen people, operating without oversight, has been running America's presidential and vice-presidential debates. To some, the Commission...
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One simple, controversial fiscal cliff fix
(CNN) – As Congress and the White House fight over every billion in revenue and spending cuts, there is some $200 billion in savings on the table that many economists insist is a no-brainer. The idea...
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Fiscal cliff: the album
(CNN) – The Fiscal Cliff looms, a federal Frankenstein created by Congress. As lawmakers remain frozen, individual Americans are responding to the situation. In song. They range from comical to cynical...
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Sticking points in fiscal cliff talks
Washington (CNN) - The key figures involved in fiscal cliff talks have released few details about negotiations since they restarted Sunday afternoon. But we do have a clearer snapshot of the major...
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Congressional bonuses in a time of cuts
Washington (CNN) – A CNN analysis of thousands of pages of Congressional expense reports shows that in the months leading up to the fiscal cliff (and potential, sharp budget cuts), nearly a quarter of...
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Keystone fight explodes (behind the scenes)
(CNN) – Guns. Immigration. The budget. Sure. All hot issues at the moment. But those watching Washington closely see what may be an even more intense scramble behind-the-scenes: the fight over the...
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Now out of Senate, Snowe supports same-sex marriage
(CNN) – Olympia Snowe, who after serving three terms in the U.S. Senate did not seek re-election last year, said in an interview Friday that as public opinion has shifted on same-sex marriage, so have...
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CBO: Senate immigration bill would cut undocumented flow 33% – 50%
Washington (CNN) – The immigration bill passed by the Senate last week would block between 33% and 50% more undocumented residents from entering the U.S. than current law, according to a new report...
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5 things you don't know about the shutdown standoff vote
WASHINGTON (CNN) - The 230-189 vote in the Republican-led House of Representatives on Friday to fund the government, with the exception of Obamacare, triggered a not-so-welcome déjà vu march toward a...
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GOP adds 'conscience clause' to spending bill
Washington (CNN) - House Republicans have added a measure aimed at limiting contraceptive coverage to the spending bill coming up for a vote Saturday night, a spokesman for Rep. Tim Huelskamp,...
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Again, the specter of a shutdown haunts the halls of Congress
Washington (CNN) - Hovering above Congress with the unpleasant scent of deja vu are concerns that current budget talks seem poised to fail and that the word "shutdown" is back on the rise. First,...
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Pelosi: Obamacare fallout will be reversed, won't hurt Democrats
(CNN) - The top Democrat in the House predicted that any political fallout from the new healthcare law will be reversed within months. "By the time we get into the spring, I think the Affordable Care...
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