U.S. Senate

Boxing Obama in

2013-05-24 00:00:00

Greater than the risk of being accused of criminality in the three scandals now gripping the Obama administration is the peril that the president's substantive agenda is being hopelessly knocked off track. The liberal Illinois senator who entered the...

Carroll County's gun law nullification fantasy

2013-05-23 12:24:00

Nullification fever is spreading across the rural counties along the Mason-Dixon Line, with Cecil, Harford and Carroll counties passing resolutions in the last month declaring their view that Maryland's new gun control law is unconstitutional. Cecil's...

Progress on immigration

2013-05-22 10:35:00

Just when Washington looked like it was completely preoccupied with the scandals, real and imaginary, swirling around the White House, a group of Democrats and Republicans in the Senate managed the unexpected (and, these days, extraordinary): They...

Top item on Obama's agenda: damage control

2013-05-20 07:47:00

As it must come to all American presidents, it seems, Barack Obama's policy agenda is being crowded out of the headlines by the imperative of damage control against administration scandal. The allegations of incompetence or worse in the IRS' targeting...

GOP can't help overreaching on Obama scandals

2013-05-20 08:54:00

Well, that didn't take long. Just as several genuine scandals cast the Obama administration in an unfavorable light, Republicans in Congress are already overreaching — with hyperbolic comparisons to Watergate, calls for special prosecutors,...

Harford council approves Sunday hours for Jarrettsville library, funding for school computers

2013-05-22 07:01:00

The Harford County Council approved a number of school-related and other amendments to the fiscal 2014 county budget Tuesday night, including funding Sunday hours at the Jarrettsville library branch and new computers at a Bel Air school. The council...

President's remarks at Ellicott Dredges

2013-05-17 11:47:00

Remarks by President Barack Obama this afternoon at Ellicott Dredges in Baltimore, from the White House. � THE PRESIDENT:� Hello, Baltimore!� (Applause.)� Well, it is wonderful to see all of you.� Give Duncan a big round of applause for the great...

Online sales tax bill should be improved, and passed

2013-05-15 12:32:00

The U.S. Senate recently passed a bill that would allow states to require Internet retailers to collect sales taxes on behalf of local governments. This bill has flaws, but they could be fixed in the House. It should be passed. I don't like the idea...

Obama's 'Katrina moment'

2013-05-17 06:05:00

It has been a rough week or so for the Obama administration. From Benghazi to the tapping of reporters' phones to the IRS admitting that it targeted conservative groups for extra scrutiny, the press is in a frenzy, and many are questioning President...

Brown is first to enter 2014 gubernatorial race

2013-05-10 17:48:00

Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown became the first candidate to join the 2014 Maryland governor's race Friday with a call to close the gap between rich and poor in education, health and economic opportunity. Before a crowd at Prince George's Community College...

Military injustice

2013-05-08 12:04:00

The recent study estimating that there may have been 26,000 cases of sexual assault in the military last year stirred a lot of tough talk from the Pentagon and the White House over the past 24 hours. But the question is whether that outrage will translate...

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.�...

U.S. Senate seat

2013-05-22 04:48:00

A dam in the Collinsville section of Canton that would be used to generate electricity. Legislation that would let Avon, Canton and Burlington use the dam has moved forward in the U.S. Senate.

2013-05-16 12:53:00

President Barack Obama wishes a happy birthday to his nominee for Commerce Secretary, Chicago business executive Penny Pritzker, as his nominee for trade representative, economic adviser Mike Froman, looks on in the Rose Garden at the White House.

2013-05-02 00:00:00