Unable to overcome parliamentary maneuvers by Sen. Rand Paul, the Senate adjourned, and let three provisions of the Patriot Act expire at midnight.
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Funding Homeland Security: Where Do We Go From Here?
President Obama late Friday signed a stopgap measure to keep the department running for another week, but the tussle over his executive action on immigration, linked to the funding, is not over yet.
After A Resounding GOP Victory, 6 Tidbits That Tell The Story
The big headline from last night’s midterm elections is that Republicans walloped the Democrats, cashing in on enormous discontent about the state of the country to pick up seven Senate seats and wrest control of the chamber.
President Obama proposes options to delay sequester
The across the board government spending cuts go into effect two weeks from Friday. This week President Barack Obama proposed a short term mix of spending cuts and tax increases to delay the sequester, but Republicans on Capitol Hill called it dead on arrival.