Hillary Clinton announced this week a program that would give 25 "opportunity grants" for "promising but disadvantaged" Palestinians students to get good educations. The $1 million program would be added on top of the $900 million the State Department has already promised to rebuild Gaza. When the f...

As part of the negotiations for passing the increasingly embarrassingly delayed omnibus bill, the Senate is considering a number of Republican amendments, one of which would strip the omnibus bill of language that would kill the Washington Opportunity Scholarship program. The program, which allows 1...

I knew we could work together if we just tried! A $410 omnibus spending bill being piloted by Congressional Democrats ran into trouble last night, as Sen. Harry Reid was unable to get 60 votes to end debate on the measure after scheduling a vote for 8:15 p.m. Reid had hoped to ram the giant bill thr...

John Boehner isn't the only one getting tougher on Obama this week. A group of 49 moderate Democrats, facing tough reelection campaigns for 2010, are joining forces against elements of Obama's sweeping plans. They're wary of the omnibus spending bill, health care legislation, plans for cap-and-trade...

Six weeks in, with the Dow falling precipitously, the boss has questions about Obama's priorities: Obama has spent far more time publicly defending his stimulus package, and touting his health care, energy, and education proposals, than explaining how he's going to deal with the banking crisis. Yet ...

There are 1,700 Washington, D.C. students, 99 percent of them minorities, who attend safe, quality private schools in the District thanks to a voucher program passed narrowly by the Congress four years ago. Two of those children are classmates of Sasha and Malia Obama at the prestigious Sidwell Frie...

Last year, Adrian Fenty was the coolest, promising, intellectual, handsome young politician in Washington, D.C. But this year, there's a new kid on the block, and he's throwing down the gauntlet for D.C.'s former most popular kid. From the mean streets of Chicago, Barack Obama swaggered into the cit...

Mike Huckabee, former Arkansas governor cum candidate cum Fox News host, spoke on the first day of CPAC, using his considerable communication skills to bring the audience through a 30-minute vision of the revitalization of the Republican Party, on everything from nuclear energy to health care. And, ...

As questions swirl around Sen. Roland Burris (D-Ill.), Gov. Rod Blagojevich's appointment to fill Obama's seat, the L.A. Times has joined the chorus of papers calling for Burris' resignation. It doesn't matter whether there was a quid pro quo behind Burris' appointment. By failing to level with inve...

At around 3 p.m. today, stimulus negotiators held a press conference announcing a deal on the bill, thanks to deal-making meetings to which GOP conferees were reportedly not invited. At around 4 p.m., the New York Times reported that the deal is not cemented yet, as Pelosi doesn't yet have her Democ...