BUSH LOBBIES CONGRESS ON SOCIAL SECURITY
U.S. Representatives Mike Pence, (R-IN) (right) and Jeff Flake, (R-AZ) leave the White House after meeting with President Bush on April 27, 2005. Bush met with several members of congress to talk about his Social Security agenda. (UPI Photo/Matthew Cavanaugh/Pool)
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The U.S. Senate's Gang of Eight fended off poison-pill amendments meant to derail a bipartisan immigration reform bill supporters say is gaining steam.
Republican lawmakers said an immigration reform bill won't pass if Democrats add an amendment allowing gay Americans to sponsor green cards.
A Mississippi man was charged with threatening President Obama by sending a letter testing positive for ricin, the Justice Department said Thursday.
Portland, Ore., police said Thursday they have charged a Portland man with harassing families of victims of the 2012 movie theater massacre in Aurora, Colo.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Mayors Against Illegal Guns coalition will now rate lawmakers on their gun records, the coalition's director said.
Rep. Matt Salmon, R-Ariz., said his son's homosexuality had not led him to change his view that marriage should only be between a man and a woman.
A Republican U.S. presidential nominee will back same-sex marriage sooner or later and will get party support, says a senator widely seen as a rising GOP star.
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Half of the Gang of Eight U.S. senators working on immigration reform visited Arizona for a first-hand look Wednesday at the U.S. border with Mexico.
President Obama concluded his three-day tour of Capitol Hill Thursday without significant progress on the budget stalemate with Republicans, lawmakers said.
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