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Sen. Pat Leahy, D-VT, has been sworn in as president pro tempore of the U.S. Senate.As the longest-serving Democrat now in the Senate, Leahy moves to third place in the line of presidential succession, behind Vice President Joe Biden and House Speaker John Boehner.Biden swore Leahy in Tuesday as the successor to Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye in the Senate post. Inouye, who also chaired the Senate Appropriations Committee, died Monday at age 88. A vase of white roses was on Inouye's desk on the Senate floor.Leahy, who represents Vermont, also is in line to succeed Inouye as chairman of the appropriations panel. The 72-year-old Leahy currently is chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee....
Leading senators working on immigration legislation reached a compromise Tuesday on the details of an expanded high-tech visa program, officials said as the Senate J...
Far-reaching legislation to grant a chance at citizenship to millions of immigrants living illegally in the United States cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee on a...
A bipartisan group of senators is nearing agreement on a comprehensive immigration bill that would put illegal immigrants on a 13-year path to citizenship, officials...
Former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales reacts
A landmark immigration bill in the Senate is facing a critical trial -- whether it can survive hundreds of amendments from the left and right and still emerge relati...
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President Obama on Monday tried to undercut National Rifle Association leaders and appeal directly to their membership, claiming gun owners support the "common-sense...
Heavy heat on Holder, IRS and Obamacare and how Operation second chance helps wounded vets
The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executi...
At least five times in the last few months, members of a Honduras street gang were killed or went missing just after run-ins with the U.S.-supported national police,...
The Senate Judiciary Committee put off its vote Tuesday on Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor for one week amid objections from the panel's conservative Republica...
The White House was in damage control mode Tuesday as an escalating series of potential scandals raised questions about whether officials abused their authority -- a...
"The American people are left to wonder what conduct is at the base of [her] concern that she may incriminate herself in connection with criminal charges if she appe...
Four American citizens have been killed in counter-terrorism drone strikes since 2009, the Obama administration acknowledged for the first time Wednesday.Attorney Ge...
Attorney General Eric Holder says four American citizens have been killed in drone strikes since 2009.The attorney general said that in conducting U.S. counterterror...
President Obama will announce Thursday that the White House plans to lift the ban on sending detainees from Guantanamo Bay to Yemen, Fox News confirms, a move that c...
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Reaction from Karl Rove
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy slammed the brakes Thursday on Sen. Dick Durbin's decision to give up his Judiciary subcommittee chairmanship and o...