By Dan Balz,
Wednesday, May 22, 2013

It is never good for an administration when a front-page newspaper article about an ongoing controversy begins as follows: “The White House offered a new account Monday of how and when it learned . . . ” That’s what readers of The Post awoke to on Tuesday. In trying to contain the controversy and protect President Obama, White House officials have only added to questions about what happened.

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By Zachary Goldfarb
Published: May 20, 2013 at 11:00 pm

The Treasury Department was informed on three separate occasions that the Internal Revenue Service planned to disclose that it targeted conservative groups for scrutiny, and on one occasion, Treasury expressed concern about the form of the disclosure, a Treasury official said on Monday night.

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The former U.S. attorney in Arizona leaked an internal report about an ATF agent who had criticized the failed gun operation.

By Richard A. Serrano, Los Angeles Times
May 20, 2013, 8:53 p.m.

WASHINGTON — The former top federal prosecutor in Arizona retaliated against the lead whistle-blower in the Fast and Furious gun-smuggling scandal by leaking an internal report that suggested the whistle-blower once favored allowing illegal gun sales as a way to track weapons to drug cartels in Mexico, the Justice Department’s inspector general’s office said Monday.

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The Obama administration has zealously prosecuted leaks involving national security, but the secret collection of records for 20 Associated Press phone lines reaches a new level.

By David G. Savage, Washington Bureau
May 19, 2013, 8:41 p.m.

WASHINGTON — Three years ago, the Obama administration brought criminal charges under the Espionage Act against Thomas Drake, an Air Force veteran and intelligence expert at the National Security Agency in Maryland.

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Elspeth Reeve
May 17, 2013

The IRS official who revealed the IRS had inappropriately targeted conservative groups on Friday did so on purpose — by asking a tax lawyer to ask her about it at American Bar Association tax section’s annual meeting.

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By Carol D. Leonnig
Published: May 16, 2013

When the Barack H. Obama Foundation sought tax-exempt status to raise money for good works in Kenya, the Internal Revenue Service provided quick help.

The IRS approved charitable status for the foundation, which was run by President Obama’s brother and named after his father, in about a month’s time. The IRS also agreed to give the group this important financial status retroactively, back to 2009, when it had begun its fundraising.

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By Scott Wilson and Karen DeYoung
Published: May 15 E-mail the writers

The Obama administration released 100 pages of e-mails Wednesday that reveal differences between intelligence analysts and State Department officials over how to initially describe the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya.

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By Zachary A. Goldfarb and Juliet Eilperin
Published: May 15 E-mail the writers

President Obama on Wednesday demanded and accepted the resignation of the acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, Steven T. Miller, as part of a multi-pronged effort to quell controversies that threaten to dominate his second term.

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President Obama addressed the IRS controversy Wednesday evening, announcing that the acting commissioner of the IRS has resigned. Obama reiterated that he “would not tolerate this kind of behavior.”

By Karen Tumulty
Published: May 15 E-mail the writer

The most corrosive political scandals are the ones that feed a pre­existing story line — which is why the White House could have difficulty putting the current ones behind it any time soon.

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Shane Goldmacher
May 14 2013, 4:39 PM ET

As three separate scandals – the IRS targeting the tea party, the Justice Department’s phone-records grab from the AP, and Benghazi – erupt simultaneously, congressional Republicans are hoping to fold them into a single narrative of an unaccountable and overreaching White House that cannot be trusted.

As Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., put it colorfully during a Fox News appearance, “This sounds like a president somewhat drunk on power.”

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By Scott Wilson
May 13, 2013

There was a guiding principle early in President Obama’s first term that in Washington it is always better to be pitching than catching.

The stimulus bill, the bank and auto industry bailouts, Wall Street regulation, health-care legislation, Muslim outreach abroad — the first two years featured Obama as pitcher.

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By Billy House
Updated: May 13, 2013 | 3:37 a.m.
May 12, 2013 | 12:00 p.m.

With tensions over fiscal issues building, and the three-month suspension of the nation’s debt limit set to expire Sunday, lawmakers this week will be rehashing on the House floor their messaging war over repealing President Obama’s three-year-old health care law.

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May 10, 2013
Posted by Alex Koppelman

It’s a cliché, of course, but it really is true: in Washington, every scandal has a crime and a coverup. The ongoing debate about the attack on the United States facility in Benghazi where four Americans were killed, and the Obama Administration’s response to it, is no exception. For a long time, it seemed like the idea of a coverup was just a Republican obsession. But now there is something to it.

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By Billy House
Updated: May 5, 2013 | 2:11 p.m.
May 5, 2013 | 12:00 p.m.

The brewing debt-ceiling showdown still looms weeks—if not months—away, but hostilities will begin flaring this week as House Republicans push action on a bill signaling no retreat from their demand for spending cuts as a condition to any ceiling hike.

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Dan Walters

By Dan Morain
dmorain@sacbee.com
Published: Sunday, May. 5, 2013 – 12:00 am | Page 1E
Last Modified: Sunday, May. 5, 2013 – 7:22 am

Rep. Ami Bera, one of two Democratic physicians in the House, doesn’t want Obamacare to fail.

But the freshman member of Congress is worried about President Barack Obama’s signature domestic achievement.

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By Justin Sink – 04/30/13 07:00 PM ET

President Obama bristled during a press conference on Tuesday when asked whether his second-term agenda is failing after the first 100 days.

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By BEN WHITE and TARINI PARTI | 4/28/13 2:29 PM EDT

Call them the debt crisis dissenters.

The two parties are miles apart on how to cut the deficit and national debt: Republicans want to slash spending even more. Democrats want to raise revenue.

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Posted by Ezra Klein
April 26, 2013 at 2:12 pm

The Democrats have lost on sequestration.

That’s the simple reality of Friday’s vote to ease the pain for the Federal Aviation Administration. By assenting to it, Democrats have agreed to sequestration for the foreseeable future.

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Cantor’s approach blew up this week. Conservatives who want repeal might have the upper hand — over Democrats, too.

By Michael Catalini
Updated: April 26, 2013 | 1:30 p.m.
April 26, 2013 | 11:27 a.m.

The influential conservative website Red State does not score key-vote legislation.

But Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s Helping Sick Americans Now Act nearly changed that. The bill would have insured thousands of Americans with pre-existing conditions who would be dropped because of a provision in the Affordable Care Act, Cantor argued. The bill was supposed to be a savvy way to make the GOP seem softer and score political points by tweaking Obamacare.

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By Nathan Hurst
Roll Call Staff
April 22, 2013, 3:44 p.m.

“Why is President Obama unnecessarily delaying your flight?” House Majority Leader Eric Cantor tweeted as part of GOP lawmakers’ social media offensive. “FAA can reprioritize.”

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By Ed O’Keefe and Philip Rucker
Published: April 17, 2013

President Obama’s ambitious effort to overhaul the nation’s gun laws in response to December’s school massacre in Connecticut suffered a resounding defeat Wednesday, when every major proposal he championed fell apart on the Senate floor.

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By Dan Balz
Published: April 17, 2013

If there was ever a moment that symbolized the difference between the power of public opinion and the strength of a concerted minority, it came Wednesday when the Senate defeated a bipartisan measure to expand background checks on gun purchases.

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By Mike Lillis – 04/14/13 06:00 AM ET

A growing number of House Democrats are concerned that President Obama’s proposal to cut Social Security benefits will haunt the party at the polls in 2014.

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By Kathleen Hennessey
April 10, 2013, 3:00 a.m.

WASHINGTON — President Obama will unveil a budget proposal Wednesday that curbs spending on Social Security, raises the minimum wage, closes tax loopholes for top earners and invests in infrastructure — an overdue document that the White House described as its final offer to Republicans in the deadlocked deficit reduction talks.

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By Alexander Bolton – 04/08/13 05:00 AM ET

The next 10 weeks are a make-or-break period for President Obama’s second-term agenda.

He needs quick victories in the Senate on gun control and immigration if he is to build momentum for a fight in the Republican-controlled House — the chief obstacle to his agenda.

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By GINGER GIBSON | 4/7/13 10:25 PM EDT

President Barack Obama might think he’s offering a compromise budget on Wednesday when he formally unveils it.

But Senate Republicans — a group Obama will try to woo with a dinner that night — are expected to vigorously push back, casting the 2014 spending plan as another attempt to raise taxes to fuel more deficit spending.

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California Attorney General Kamala Harris (left) walks with President Obama at SFO during one of his Bay Area visits in 2012. Obama was criticized for his comment about Harris’ beauty. Photo: Paul Chinn, The Chronicle

Joe Garofoli
Updated 10:59 pm, Friday, April 5, 2013

President Obama apologized Friday to California Attorney General Kamala Harris for comments he made about her physical beauty at a Bay Area fundraiser the day before.

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The proposal, to be released next week, would cut Social Security and other benefits by lowering the cost-of-living adjustment. It would also cut Medicare and raise some taxes on the wealthy.

By Lisa Mascaro and Christi Parsons, Washington Bureau
April 5, 2013, 5:12 p.m.

WASHINGTON — The budget that President Obama is scheduled to release next week drew attacks Friday from both the left and right — a reaction that White House aides appeared to welcome as they sought to portray the plan as a middle-of-the-road attempt at compromise.

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California Attorney General Kamala Harris

Drew Joseph
Updated 10:42 pm, Thursday, April 4, 2013

Instead of leaving the Bay Area Thursday after what would have normally been a quiet two-day fundraising trip, President Obama faced some criticism for calling California’s Kamala Harris “the best-looking attorney general in the country.”

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Posted by Scott Clement
March 27, 2013 at 4:27 pm

A growing number of Americans are not just dissatisfied, but angry at Washington after repeated standoffs over taxes and the deficit have pockmarked the start of President Obama’s second term.

“I’m mad as hell….”

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By Jon Cohen and Karen Tumulty,
Published: March 12, 2013

The afterglow of President Obama’s reelection and inauguration appears to have vanished as increasingly negative views among Americans about his stewardship of the economy have forced his public approval rating back down to the 50 percent mark, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

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Second-term setbacks are forcing Obama to sound more conciliatory toward Republicans.

By Josh Kraushaar
Updated: March 8, 2013 | 8:10 a.m.
March 8, 2013 | 5:46 a.m.

President Obama’s advisers have telegraphed their goal to win control of the House in 2014, which would give the president unfettered control to advance his favored policies. But the bigger concern for the White House should be the more realistic possibility that they could lose the Senate in 2014 – an outcome that’s only enhanced by the president’s second-term strategy focusing on rallying the base over centrist governance.

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By DONOVAN SLACK |03/4/13 5:02 PM EST

President Obama’s job approval rating took a hit over the weekend, falling to its lowest level in the Gallup three-day average since his reelection.

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By Kimberly Kindy and Rosalind S. Helderman
Published: March 3, 2013

Congress returns to work this week with no plan to reverse across-the-board spending cuts that took effect Friday, but with hope on both sides of the aisle of averting an end-of-the-month showdown that could result in a government shutdown.

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By Vicki Needham – 03/02/13 06:00 AM ET

In his weekly address on Saturday, Obama said the $85 billion sequester went into effect late Friday because congressional Republicans refused to compromise.

“These cuts are not smart,” Obama said.

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By Scott Wilson and Philip Rucker
Published: March 2, 2013

President Obama, now facing the consequences of automatic spending cuts and the complications they raise for his broader domestic agenda, is taking the most specific steps of his administration in an attempt to ensure the election of a Democratic­-controlled Congress in two years.

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By Erik Wasson and Amie Parnes – 03/01/13: 08:35 PM ET

President Obama late Friday officially triggered $85 billion in sequestration cuts to the federal government’s discretionary budget for this year.

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By Steven T. Dennis and Daniel Newhauser
Roll Call Staff
March 1, 2013, 7:12 p.m.

It wasn’t supposed to be like this for the White House and a re-elected president with political capital to spend.

But President Barack Obama is in a position of supplication to Hill Republicans, talking loudly and often about the harm of automatic budget cuts but lacking the leverage to get the GOP to buckle.

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Friday, March 1, 2013 – 09:30 a.m.

It’s Sequestration Day!

The Sun rose in the east this Friday morning and no one heard the federal budget axe fall.

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Across-the-board spending cuts are set to take effect in a matter of days, as the White House and Republican lawmakers refuse to change position.

By Lisa Mascaro, Washington Bureau
February 23, 2013, 6:46 p.m.

WASHINGTON — The nation’s budget solution was never supposed to look like this: Congress and the White House staring at across-the-board spending cuts that will begin slashing indiscriminately through the federal government in a matter of days.

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Posted by Chris Cillizza on February 22, 2013 at 3:25 pm

In seven days, the sequester — the this-will-never-really-happen set of automatic cuts in federal spending — is set to kick in. Given that everyone in Washington expects the sequester to happen, it’s worth detailing what we know about the politics of it one week before it hits.

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Friday, February 22, 2013 – 12:30 p.m.

The sky is falling! The sky is falling!

According to the Obama administration the some $85 billion in federal budget cuts set to take effect on March 1 is the end of the world.

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By Mike Lillis – 02/20/13 03:52 PM ET

House Democrats on Wednesday amplified their calls for Congress to return to Washington and work to prevent across-the-board sequester cuts poised to hit in nine days.

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By Amie Parnes and Erik Wasson – 02/19/13 08:12 PM ET

In the game of political chicken over the sequester, both the White House and congressional Republicans think their opponents will get the most blame if the $85 billion in spending cuts are triggered.

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The ax is set to fall March 1 — with the first installment of $1.2 trillion in reductions over the next decade — because lawmakers can’t agree on an alternative.

By Jim Puzzanghera and Richard Simon, Washington Bureau
February 9, 2013, 8:39 p.m.

WASHINGTON — In less than a month, a budget ax is set to fall on the federal government, indiscriminately chopping funding for the military and slicing money for various programs, including preschools and national parks.

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Posted by Natalie Jennings
February 8, 2013 at 5:14 pm

Congressional Republicans now have a hashtag for their efforts to pin the blame for the looming sequester on President Obama: #Obamaquester.

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By Zachary A. Goldfarb and Howard Schneider
Published: February 2, 2013

On his 51st birthday last August, President Obama hit the links with a group of buddies and then flew by helicopter to Camp David. There, he changed into jeans and picked up a shotgun. And then, before it got too dark, he started a round of clay target shooting.

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By Keith Laing – 02/02/13 06:00 AM ET

President Obama blamed the recent contraction of the U.S. economy on “bad decisions in Washington” in his weekly address.

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The president needs to lead from behind on immigration reform.

By Matthew Cooper
Updated: January 28, 2013 | 8:37 p.m.
January 28, 2013 | 2:41 p.m.

Anyone with a kid or a boss knows that one of the most important things you can do is back off. Hovering over your kid is not the best way to get them to put on their coat, and it’s not the best way to get a raise.

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Sending a bill with his name on it could automatically alienate Republicans who might otherwise support an overhaul.

By Kathleen Hennessey, Christi Parsons and Brian Bennett, Washington Bureau
January 26, 2013, 9:30 p.m.

WASHINGTON — As President Obama settles on a strategy to overhaul the nation’s immigration laws, he faces a quandary that speaks volumes about the bitter nature of politics in a divided capital: The very fact that a plan has Obama’s name on it might be enough to kill it.

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By DONOVAN SLACK |
1/25/13 11:14 AM EST

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Friday ruled that recess appointments made by President Obama to the National Labor Relations Board were unconstitutional.

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Obama’s appointments were ruled unconstitutional Friday.
By JOSH GERSTEIN | 1/25/13 10:03 PM EST

President Barack Obama made a big gamble last January when he issued four recess appointments during a three-day break between meetings of the Senate — and with the court ruling Friday broadly undercutting his ability to make such appointments, he may have lost even bigger.

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By Jill Lawrence
Updated: January 22, 2013 | 6:30 a.m.
January 21, 2013 | 2:34 p.m.

At least 10 times during his second inaugural address, President Obama made unmistakable allusions to Republican ideas that he rejects and wants the country to reject – even as he wrapped the critiques in a call for togetherness.

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By Rosalind S. Helderman,
Published: January 20

As President Obama begins his second term, he faces a difficult, if familiar, conundrum: Much of the ambitious agenda he has laid out for the next four years requires action from a sometimes hostile Congress.

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Posted by Ezra Klein
January 12, 2013 at 3:32 pm

The Treasury Department will not mint a trillion-dollar platinum coin to get around the debt ceiling. If they did, the Federal Reserve would not accept it.

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Posted by Neil Irwin
January 11, 2013 at 11:33 am

Many Americans received their first paycheck of 2013 today. That sound you hear is the collective “What the . .. “ they have emitted upon looking at their pay stub.

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By Rosalind S. Helderman
Published: January 11, 2013

Democratic leaders in the Senate on Friday urged President Obama to consider bypassing Congress to prevent the nation from defaulting on its spending obligations if lawmakers cannot agree to raise the nation’s $16.4 trillion debt ceiling next month.

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Wednesday, January 9, 2013 – 11:30 p.m.

What did Barack Obama voters expect when they reelected him President of the United States?

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By Matea Gold
January 5, 2013, 3:00 a.m.

WASHINGTON — Fresh off this week’s last-minute “fiscal cliff” deal, President Obama on Saturday dug in as the prospect of another budget clash with congressional Republicans loomed, warning that he will not negotiate over raising the nation’s debt limit.

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By Richard Rubin – Jan 1, 2013 10:54 AM PT

The budget deal passed by the U.S. Senate today would raise taxes on 77.1 percent of U.S. households, mostly because of the expiration of a payroll tax cut, according to preliminary estimates from the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center in Washington.

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The compromise could add $4 trillion in debt in the next 10 years.
By DAVID ROGERS | 1/1/13 3:03 PM EST

The White House-Senate Republican tax compromise could add almost $4 trillion in debt over the next 10 years, according to Congressional Budget Office estimates, which attribute most of the cost to lost revenues or payments on refundable tax credits.

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By Matthew Boyle
31 Dec 2012

According to the Congressional Budget Office, the last-minute fiscal cliff deal reached by congressional leaders and President Barack Obama cuts only $15 billion in spending while increasing tax revenues by $620 billion—a 41:1 ratio of tax increases to spending cuts.

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The lopsided 89-8 vote puts pressure on the House to swiftly follow suit to ensure the nation avoids automatic tax increases and spending cuts. The deal, which raises taxes, would represent a milestone for Republicans.

By Lisa Mascaro, Kathleen Hennessey and Michael A. Memoli
January 1, 2013, 12:30 a.m.

WASHINGTON — The Senate voted overwhelmingly early Tuesday to approve legislation to halt a tax increase for all but the wealthiest Americans while postponing for two months deep spending cuts. The vote came just hours after the accord was reached between the White House and congressional leaders.

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Clouds roil over the White House in Washington on the morning of Sunday, Dec. 30, 2012, as Washington has less than 48 hours to avert the ìfiscal cliff,î a series of tax increases and spending cuts set to take hold on Jan. 1. Republican and Democratic negotiators in the Senate were hoping to reach a deal to avoid going over the cliff on Sunday. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

By David Rohde for The Atlantic
Updated: December 31, 2012 | 10:39 a.m.
December 31, 2012 | 10:38 a.m.

Barack Obama said it himself in his first post-election press conference. Speaking at the White House on November 14, Obama said conversations with families, workers and small business owners along the campaign trail had left him convinced that average Americans deserved more from Washington.

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Monday, December 31, 2012- 01:00 p.m.

Enough already.

Go off the Fiscal Cliff. Please hurry and press the gas pedal, because all the droning on is becoming pretty nausiating.

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By Phillip Reese
preese@sacbee.com
Published: Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012 – 12:00 am | Page 1A
Last Modified: Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012 – 11:01 am

Enough to make a year’s worth of payments on a small car. Enough to take a weeklong vacation for two in Hawaii. Enough to feed a family of three for almost six months.

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Posted by Greg Sargent on December 28, 2012 at 6:38 pm

President Obama, during a brief statement to the press just now, said Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell are in the process of working out a deal to avert the “fiscal cliff” tax hikes, and pronounced himself optimistic about the talks. The key to Obama’s statement, though, is that he spelled out the political reality Republican leaders will be left facing if a deal is not reached:

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NEWS ANALYSIS
Splits among House Republicans mean more gridlock — and more roadblocks for President Obama’s agenda.
By Paul West and David Lauter, Washington Bureau
December 22, 2012, 3:16 p.m.

WASHINGTON — In the days immediately after President Obama’s reelection victory, White House officials hoped that in a second term he might have better relations with congressional Republicans. The “fever will break,” more than one Obama aide forecast.

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CONGRESS

By Nancy Cook
Updated: December 18, 2012 | 5:53 p.m.
December 18, 2012 | 2:22 p.m.

If you stop listening to the political noise on Capitol Hill, you’ll realize the dirty secret about the current state of play of the fiscal-cliff negotiations: The Democrats and Republicans aren’t very far apart in their proposals to one another.

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Tuesday, December 18, 2012
By Lori Montgomery and Paul Kane,

President Obama and House Speaker John A. Boehner moved close to agreement Monday on a plan to avert the year-end “fiscal cliff,” but they had yet to clear several critical hurdles, including winning the support of wary House Republicans.

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Democrats relish Republican disunity in the fiscal debate, but splits of their own are emerging over Medicare.

By Christi Parsons, Michael A. Memoli and Kathleen Hennessey, Washington Bureau
December 16, 2012, 6:39 p.m.

WASHINGTON — For weeks, Democrats in Congress have been relishing the division and sniping within Republican ranks over whether to raise tax rates. But as negotiations over the budget crisis wear on and shift to a debate over spending cuts, the tables are turning.

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By Alexander Bolton – 12/16/12 09:49 PM ET

President Obama promised Sunday evening he would take action in the coming weeks to prevent mass shootings such as the one that took the lives of 20 children in Newtown, Connecticut.

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By Paul Kane
Sunday, December 16, 2012

President Obama and House Speaker John A. Boehner are continuing their talks, but key officials in both parties now believe that Washington will be unable to avoid some mix of the tax increases and automatic spending cuts mandated next month by the austerity measures known as the “fiscal cliff.”

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Economy

By Associated Press
Dec. 15, 2012

(WASHINGTON) — Signaling new movement in “fiscal cliff” talks, House Speaker John Boehner has proposed raising the top rate for earners making more than $1 million, a person familiar with the negotiations said. President Barack Obama, who wants higher top rates for households earning more than $250,000, has not accepted the offer, this person said.

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By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press Writer
Posted: 12/10/2012 04:42:25 PM PST
Updated: 12/10/2012 07:40:05 PM PST

WASHINGTON – Your medical plan is facing an unexpected expense, so you probably are, too. It’s a new, $63-per-head fee to cushion the cost of covering people with pre-existing conditions under President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul.

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