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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Justice Department is opening a criminal investigation of the Internal Revenue Service just as another...
(AP) An interim report released Tuesday by House Republicans faults the State Department and former Secretary of State Hillar...
(WBEN/AP) Niagara County lawmakers are enlisting a consultant to try to shield the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station from app...
(AP) A combative President Barack Obama blamed Republican lawmakers Friday for failing to stop automatic spending cuts that w...
Automatic spending cuts scheduled to take effect Friday are expected to touch a vast range of government services. Some examp...
Exclusive WBEN AudioOn The WBEN LivelineDave Levinthal, Center for Public Integrity"President Obama has taken the middle...
(AP) President Barack Obama declared Monday on his first trip outside Washington to promote gun control that a consensus is e...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House overwhelmingly passed a bill Wednesday to permit the government to borrow enough money to avoid ...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama says he's reviewing a list of proposals from Vice President Joe Biden about how...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Speaker John Boehner (BAY'-nur) has invited President Barack Obama to deliver the State of the U...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House has overwhelmingly approved $9.7 billion to pay flood insurance claims for the many home and...
(WBEN/AP) Congress is ushering in the new and the old - dozens of eager freshmen determined to change Washington and the hars...
A deal on the government's budget priorities has been reached, raising taxes on the wealthy, extendinglong-term unemploym...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Maneuvered into a political corner, House Republicans sorted glumly through unsavory fiscal cliff choices ...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Racing the clock, the White House reached a New Year's Eve accord with Senate Republicans late Monday ...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Democratic aide says the White House and congressional Republicans have reached an agreement to avert th...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House will be back in session Sunday evening as the "fiscal cliff" looms, threatening across...
WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says the government appears headed over the so-called fiscal cliff becaus...
WASHINGTON (AP) - As the country continues to creep closer to the so-called "fiscal cliff," House Speaker John Boeh...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Narrowing a "fiscal cliff" negotiating gap, President Barack Obama is backing off what had once ...
WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House "fiscal cliff" meeting between President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boeh...
Undated (WBEN) -- As the nation waits for leaders in Washington to reach agreement to avoid the so-called "fiscal cliff,...
WASHINGTON (AP) - House Republicans negotiating with President Barack Obama on avoiding the so-called fiscal cliff are propos...
WASHINGTON — Republicans' newfound willingness to consider tax increases to avert the "fiscal cliff" come...
Buffalo (WBEN/AP) -- New York Lt.Gov.Robert Duffy says the fiscal cliff situation is real, but he believes lawmakers will rea...
Western New York had a brief indirect mention at the Republican national convention last night in Tampa.During his vice presi...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Justice Department has declared that Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to withhold informati...
(CBS News) No one -- aside from the high court's nine justices -- can presume to know how the Supreme Court will rule on ...
Washington (CBS) A year-and-a-half long investigation into a botched gun trafficking program culminated Wednesday with the Ho...
(CBS News) In an apparent effort to woo women voters, House Republicans are launching the "Women's Policy Committee,...
(CBS News) The top Republican in the Senate, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, criticized President Obama for failing to lead on t...
(CBS News) -- House Republicans investigating the Fast and Furious scandal plan to pursue a contempt citation against Attorne...
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans ignored a veto threat and overcame a rebellion by party conservatives to push a bill through t...
Washington DC (WBEN/CBS) - Western New York's Louise Slaughter is leading a group of Democratic members of Congress, pres...
(WBEN) Reporters who have followed both Ron Paul and Rick Santorum early in their career seem united in one view: Each is out...
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama has signed legislation extending a payroll tax cut for two months. The action conclu...
Washington (AP/WBEN) -- The Ohio Republican said in a statement Thursday that he expects to pass a new bill by Christmas that...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congress' supercommittee conceded ignominious defeat Monday in its quest to conquer a government deb...
It's just about over for a special deficit-reduction supercommittee, which appears set to admit failure on Monday in its ques...
"The supercommittee is nothing more than a supersized extension of the dysfunction of Congress.... " - Cong. Brian...
(AP) WASHINGTON - House Speaker John Boehner publicly blessed a Republican deficit-reduction plan Tuesday that would raise &#...
(AP) WASHINGTON - House Speaker John Boehner publicly blessed a Republican deficit-reduction plan Tuesday that would raise &#...
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(CBS/AP) The voice of Hank Williams Jr. has become one with Monday Night Football, opening 20 years of telecasts byasking Ame...
The Senate on Monday passed a stopgap spending measure that will fund government agencies beyond September 30th and avert a g...
President Barack Obama's proposal to reduce long-term deficits with $1.5 trillion in new taxes is less an opening bid in ...
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The Associated Press is out with some interesting reporting on the rhetoric that both sides are using in the debt and spendin...
