Jay Carney

Scandals put presidential credibility on the line

2013-05-17 00:00:00

When the storm of administration scandals first hit President Barack Obama, he offered a good impersonation of Claude Raines in "Casablanca," expressing shock that gambling was going on in Rick's saloon. His verbal outrage at the snooping of the IRS and...

Benghazi: The Obama spin continues

2013-05-12 05:00:00

"Bumps in the road." — President Barack Obama on the unrest in Libya and elsewhere in the Middle East that included the deaths of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens, an information officer, and two Navy SEALS. "Crude and disgusting"… "an...

Perez vote delayed as confirmation fight intensifies

2013-05-08 14:52:00

WASHINGTON -- A Senate committee vote on Labor Secretary nominee Tom Perez was postponed hours before it was set to take place Wednesday, highlighting what appears to be a growing partisan fight over the confirmation of the former Maryland official.�...

About 400 U.S. flights delayed as sequestration takes hold

2013-04-23 00:00:00

Sequestration is starting to frustrate air travelers. About 400 flights were delayed Sunday because of air traffic controller furloughs, the Federal Aviation Administration said, and a few more interruptions were reported Monday, though the nation's air...

Cardin to meet with family of Russian lawyer

2013-04-17 17:19:00

Sen. Ben Cardin is scheduled to meet Thursday with the family of a Russian lawyer whose death sparked an international outcry over human rights in that country, renewing focus on a controversy that has complicated U.S.-Russian relations at a sensitive...

Common sense on Plan B

2013-04-09 11:31:00

Last week, a federal district judge in New York ruled that girls younger than 17 should be allowed to purchase the Plan B contraceptive pill over the counter. Unlike the Obama administration, Judge Edward Korman got this one right. The 2011 decision by...

Sequestration was Obama's idea; now he doesn't like it?

2013-03-07 07:30:00

I was dismayed by your recent, misleading article on the Republican's responsibility for the budget sequester (The GOP sequester," Feb. 22). Jack Lew, the White House chief of staff and budget director, set up the sequester in 2011, and Rob Nabors,...

Blame game rages on over looming sequester

2013-02-25 04:00:00

We are just days away from a cataclysm of biblical proportions. The cuts foretold in the Budget Control Act of 2011 are young as far as prophecies go, but apparently they are every bit as terrifying as rivers of blood and plagues of locusts. Any day now...

Little action to stop defense cuts, despite warnings

2013-02-18 10:04:00

Defense officials and their allies in Congress have done their best to create a sense of crisis about impending budget cuts, but their warnings have failed to produce any visible result. Instead, partisan divisions have hardened over how to avoid the...

CASA de Maryland chief tells Obama that Senate immigration plan is 'unfair'

2013-02-05 14:02:00

Immigration reform advocates, including a leading voice from Maryland, pressed President Obama on Tuesday for a pathway to citizenship for the nation's estimated 11 million illegal immigrants, calling a bipartisan proposal under consideration in the U.S....

Obama to visit Annapolis next week

2013-02-01 10:46:00

President Barack Obama will arrive in Annapolis on Wednesday to speak to U.S. Senate Democrats who plan to gather at the Westin hotel next week, the White House said Friday. The address will not be open to the public or to reporters. Democratic...

For Republicans, a not so happy New Year

2013-01-06 05:00:00

Author's disclaimer: Today's piece may cause my center/right readers severe irritability, sleeplessness, and a strong desire to limit your cable television options to Fox. The antidote may not arrive until the midterm elections of 2014. Fiscal cliff...

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney answers questions on recently disclosed emails about the Benghazi attack.

2013-05-10 00:00:00

Why: You generally don't want to get into a rap rivalry with Jay-Z. But the White House on Thursday challenged the mega-artist after he released a track suggesting he got "White House clearance" for his controversial trip to Cuba with wife Beyonce.

2013-03-11 00:00:00

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano speaks Monday at the White House about the effect of looming spending cuts as White House Press Secretary Jay Carney looks on.

2013-02-25 00:00:00