Mike Lee

By Patrick Temple-West WASHINGTON, June 19 (Reuters) - More than 1,000 Tea Party activists protested in Washington on Wednesday over the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative political groups seeking tax-exempt status. Demonstrators on...

On the eve of a Senate hearing on airline mergers, two senators are urging the Obama administration to carefully scrutinize the proposed merger of American Airlines and US Airways. The merger, expected to close by September, would unite the third and...

WASHINGTON, June 18 (Reuters) - Two U.S. lawmakers with antitrust oversight have urged the Obama administration to carefully review a planned merger of American Airlines and US Airways Group to ensure that it will not lead to higher prices for air...

WASHINGTON – A bipartisan group of senators is introducing new legislation that they say will provide greater transparency of National Security Agency surveillance programs, the first significant legislative response to the revelation of the...

The House Judiciary Committee, dominated by Republican men who still have not learned to avoid the subject of rape and pregnancy, took up the issue of abortion this week. Normally, the news about abortion focuses on the machinations of conservative...

* Booz Allen Hamilton says has fired Snowden * Top Republican calls Snowden "a traitor" * Google and others seek loosening of secrecy on requests * Privacy groups want surveillance programs investigated * Civil liberties group files court challenge...

* Republicans criticize "amnesty" for 11 million * Legislation is big test for Obama and Congress * Vote on passage expected by Fourth of July holiday By Richard Cowan and Thomas Ferraro WASHINGTON, June 7 (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Friday plunged...

WASHINGTON — With budgetary tantrums in the Senate and investigative play-acting in the House, the Republican Party is proving once again that it simply cannot be taken seriously. This is a shame. I don't share the GOP's philosophy, but I do...

(Changes "legal status" to "permanent residency" in first paragraph, adds dropped words "permanent" and "million" in third paragraph) By Caren Bohan and Thomas Ferraro WASHINGTON, June 5 (Reuters) - Two leading Republican senators on Wednesday...

By Caren Bohan and Thomas Ferraro WASHINGTON, June 5 (Reuters) - Two leading Republican senators on Wednesday unveiled proposals requiring much tighter security on the U.S.-Mexico border before undocumented immigrants could gain legal status under the...

WASHINGTON — Not since George Wallace, perhaps, has an Alabamian taken as passionate a stand for a lost cause as the one Jeff Sessions is taking now. Bipartisan immigration legislation is making its way inexorably through the Senate Judiciary...

WASHINGTON — At the end of a truly dismal week in his presidency, President Obama remains lucky in one crucial category: his opposition. It has been only a matter of days since two scandals — the IRS harassment of conservative groups and the...