March 23, 2010, 1:26 PM
At White House, Biden's Expletive Caught on Open Mike
The vice president's effusiveness to President Obama was overheard at the ceremony for the signing of health care legislation.
The most sweeping social legislation enacted in decades became law after a festive, at times raucous, signing ceremony in the White House on Tuesday.
President Obama has gained an infusion of political capital, but it may not help him advance his agenda in Congress.
Polls suggest many Americans are opposed to the health care bill, but Republicans face portrayals as the “party of no.”
With Medicare off the deficit-reduction table, Social Security stands as the likeliest source of large savings.
As Democrats prepared for the president to sign their landmark legislation, Republicans opened a campaign to repeal it and use it as a weapon in midterm elections.
Representative Allen Boyd of Florida changed his mind about the health bill. Some voters’ minds are changing about him.
Officials in a dozen states plan to argue that requiring people to buy health insurance is an unprecedented intrusion by the federal government into people’s lives.
At a Congressional hearing, Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner said the administration planned to take “a fresh, cold, hard look” at the government’s role in housing.
In the weird world of Capitol Hill, the first independent House of Representatives ethics cop may win by losing.
A committee vote along party lines has effectively deferred a partisan struggle over the financial legislation’s provisions.
After a meeting with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, the Israeli prime minister served notice that his government would not yield easily to U.S. demands.
The community organizing group has been criticized and has lost donations since a video sting was publicized last fall.
A proposed rail link between Tampa and Orlando, Fla., exposes the weaknesses in the two cities’ transit systems.
A new interactive map will provide a dynamic look at the midterms across the country.
President Obama surprised nearly everyone when he picked Hillary Rodham Clinton as his secretary of state. But they have again surprised nearly everyone by forging a partnership of sorts.
Party crashers at a state dinner dealt the final blow to Desirée Rogers’ position as White House social secretary. But tension had been brewing well before.
Peter Baker of The Times discusses Karl Rove's new memoir. The former White House adviser wrote that had the Bush administration known there were no weapons of mass destruction, there may not have been a war in Iraq.
How accurate have White House budget forecasts been?
An interactive timeline of Barack Obama’s life and career.
Will the health bill fundamentally alter the American social safety net?
Some of the main ways the overhaul might affect those who currently have health insurance and those who do not.
A look at some important groups in Sunday’s House vote to pass the health care bill approved by the Senate in December.
For Congressional lawmakers, the ramifications of the vote to overhaul health care could be as big or even bigger than the vote on the Iraq war.
A look at key provisions of the Senate bill and the changes proposed in the reconciliation bill passed by the House Sunday.
For almost a century, presidents and members of Congress have tried and failed to provide universal health benefits to Americans.