Stories by Steven T. Dennis:
Oct. 29, 2012
After cutting short his latest campaign swing, President Barack Obama told the nation the government is prepared for Hurricane Sandy’s landfall but told the public to expect a difficult cleanup.
Oct. 25, 2012
The Senate Intelligence Committee has announced hearings to review the Sept. 11 attack in Benghazi, Libya, as well as intelligence and security in the “Arab Spring” countries after the election.
Oct. 24, 2012
President Barack Obama’s problem hasn’t been that he doesn’t have a second-term agenda, as challenger Mitt Romney has claimed. The difficulty for Obama has been in explaining how he could be more successful in a second term after two years of gridlock.
Oct. 24, 2012
The Des Moines Register today released a previously off-the-record interview with President Barack Obama in which he gave his frankest answers to date on his second-term agenda, including breakthroughs on a “grand bargain” on the deficit and on immigration reform next year.
Oct. 24, 2012
Mitt Romney’s campaign is dismissing President Barack Obama’s plans to push for an immigration overhaul next year as merely a repeat of a broken promise from 2008.
Oct. 23, 2012
With Election Day just two weeks away, President Barack Obama repackaged his agenda for the next few years while campaign manager Jim Messina and adviser David Axelrod touted their ground game and lead in early voting.
Oct. 22, 2012
President Barack Obama and challenger Mitt Romney begin a nonstop sprint to election day after tonight’s debate, with both campaigns giving special attention to the all-important state of Ohio.
Oct. 19, 2012
Liberals are countering the Romney campaign’s touting of a 2006 Joint Committee on Taxation study of a Romney-style tax reform plan, pointing out that the same study showed a shift in the tax burden from upper-income earners to lower-income earners.
Oct. 18, 2012
The Romney campaign is highlighting a 2006 Joint Committee on Taxation analysis of a tax plan that would eliminate most tax breaks while lowering tax rates to bolster its claims that the GOP presidential nominee’s plan would boost economic growth.
Oct. 18, 2012
The White House and Congressional Republicans continue to draw sharp lines on the fiscal cliff showdown coming after Election Day, even as business leaders warned of a big hit to the economy if scheduled tax increases and spending cuts are not muted.
Oct. 17, 2012
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s awkward debate moment Tuesday on the terrorist attack in Libya has not quelled Republican demands for more information about what the president knew, when he knew it and whether he should have anticipated the Sept. 11 event.
Oct. 12, 2012
The tough questioning of Vice President Joseph Biden on Libya and GOP vice presidential nominee and Rep. Paul Ryan on Afghanistan and Iran provided a messaging boost to both parties today.
Oct. 10, 2012
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney repeatedly argued today that the administration provided the best intelligence it had about the Sept. 11 attack in Libya to the public.
Oct. 9, 2012
The presidential candidates uttered “Congress” just four times during their first debate last week. That probably won’t be the case on Thursday night, when two Capitol Hill veterans meet for the sole vice presidential debate.
Oct. 9, 2012
A cascade of poll numbers confirms Mitt Romney's big bounce after Wednesday's debate with President Barack Obama, putting him ahead in several national and state polls and closing the gaps in swing states where he had trailed.
Oct. 5, 2012
If the next president wants to attack Iran to stop it from building a nuclear weapon, Congress seems unlikely to stand in the way.
Oct. 4, 2012
After his widely panned performance in Wednesday night's debate, a more energetic President Barack Obama unveiled some fresh material of his own, asking today where the "real Mitt Romney" went.
Oct. 4, 2012
During Wednesday's debate, Republican nominee Mitt Romney muddied the waters over how he might pay for his 20 percent tax rate cut, even as he clarified that his top principle would be not to add to the deficit.
Oct. 3, 2012
At the first presidential debate Wednesday night in Denver, GOP challenger Mitt Romney aggressively rebutted President Barack Obama's charges that he would cut taxes for the wealthy and vowed not to pass any tax cuts that add to the deficit.
Oct. 3, 2012
GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney and his campaign have started to get specific about how he might pay for his signature 20 percent cut in tax rates, and his latest idea is sure to create both winners and losers.
Oct. 2, 2012
Heading into tonight's critical first presidential debate, the Romney campaign is aggressively parrying President Barack Obama's attacks on his tax reform plan while jumping on Vice President Joseph Biden's gaffe Tuesday that the middle class has been "buried" during the past four years.
Sept. 27, 2012
Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) joined President Barack Obama in Virginia Beach today and issued a stinging attack on Mitt Romney's failure to mention veterans during his presidential nomination acceptance speech, while also noting that Romney did not serve in the military.
Sept. 26, 2012
Polls continued to shift strongly in President Barack Obama’s favor today, with the president opening up a 6-point lead in the Gallup tracking poll. He has even bigger leads in some polls in key swing states, including in Ohio, where both he and GOP challenger Mitt Romney campaigned today.
Sept. 25, 2012
President Barack Obama and Republican vice presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan both weighed in against the replacement referee debacle that had the Green Bay Packers from Ryan's home swing state of Wisconsin lose on the last play of the game in a Monday Night Football thriller in Seattle.
Sept. 21, 2012
While voters may think they'll be casting their vote on Nov. 6 for Mitt Romney or Barack Obama, lawmakers are starting to acknowledge that the electorate will also decide how Congress should resolve the fiscal cliff.
