Obama hosts bi-partisan meeting on financial reform in Washington
President Barack Obama participates in a bipartisan Congressional Leadership meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House on April 14, 2010. From left are Rep. Steny Hoyer, D MD, Rep. John A. Boehner,R OH Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D CA, President Obama. UPI/Dennis Brack/POOL
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U.S. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said President Barack Obama told congressional leaders at a White House meeting Wednesday "he will not negotiate."
Two top Republicans emerged from a meeting with President Obama Monday and offered at least conditional support for the president's approach to Syria.
Voting rights were a main topic when tens of thousands gathered in Washington, nearly 50 years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech.
The U.S. House voted 251-174 Wednesday to delay for one year the individual mandate to purchase health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare.
Over rancorous Democratic objections, the Republican-led U.S. House passed a farm bill Thursday that does not include reauthorization of the food stamp program.
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The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives voted in favor of repealing President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act for the 37th time.
The U.S. Senate should pass a bill that changes federal overtime rules because it would help working families, the House author of the measure said Saturday.
Politics, entertainment and the news media blended in Washington Saturday for what has become called the nerd prom, the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
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