The U.S. House of Representatives is on the verge of voting on the final war supplemental! They have passed the rule, but it doesn’t look like they have the votes yet to pass the [...]
House Democratic leadership definitely does not have the votes yet. It sounds like the leadership is going to use floor time tonight on various votes to do face-to-face whipping. If they have [...]
There’s drama brewing in Congress over the war supplemental recently passed by the House and the Senate. The Senate version contains a $108 billion line of credit to the International [...]
Just two weeks ago the House and Senate voted for more than $90 billion in “emergency supplemental funding” for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, most of which goes towards military [...]
President Obama’s highly anticipated speech in Cairo today aimed to help ameliorate the United States’ image in the Muslim world and begin to heal relationships with Muslim countries that were [...]
10 years is a long time. But that’s how long Army chief of staff Gen. George Casey is planning for when thinking about troops staying in Iraq, and even in Afghanistan. But why the planning [...]
Josh Stieber, who will begin his on-foot and bicycle, cross-country journey just after Memorial Day on May 27th in Washington, D.C., is now available for phone interviews or in-person interviews [...]
Yesterday, the Senate approved President Obama’s $91.3 billion war supplemental for Iraq and Afghanistan by a vote of 86-3. One Democrat, one Republican and one Independent voted against [...]