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President Barack Obama says he will return a portion of his salary to highlight the pain felt by federal workers due to sequester-imposed budget cuts. More 

We should be mad that seed and fertilizer companies were just given free rein thanks to a snippet of legislation tacked onto HR 933. But we should be even angrier about how it happened. More 

President Barack Obama on Monday named five new areas to the list of U.S. National Monuments, including locations in Ohio, Maryland, Delaware and New Mexico. More 

The House of Representatives passed a bill that will fund the government through the end of this fiscal year in September by a 318-109 margin. More 

After much ado and arguing, sequestration … well, it happened. On the first of the month, $85 billion in across-the-board government cuts went into effect. We’ve had a few weeks to digest the reality, and the reactions vary across the board. Many say that, despite our eye-popping deficit, the sequester wasn’t even necessary since higher... More 

President Barack Obama has nominated the head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, Thomas Perez, to be the Secretary of Labor. More 

Both the president and vice president may be traveling abroad Tuesday, a rare occurrence due to security concerns for the top executive branch officials. More