Kent Conrad

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar Medical researchers and politicians are tiptoeing into an area of health care that makes some Americans uncomfortable, even angry, and it has nothing to do with such hot-button issues as cloning and stem-cell research. This...

by Mike Dorning Barack Obama's vice presidential search team is considering former military leaders among potential choices, said a senator who spoke with the vetting team today. Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.), who met with members of the Obama vice...

by Frank James It's probably safe to assume that Rep. Jeb Hensarling, a Texas Republican, knows he wasn't one of the "Friends of Angelo," as in Mozilo, the former chief executive officer of Countrywide Financial. That's because Hensarling is calling......

by Frank James In the Senate, it nowadays apparently takes a self-appointed, biparitsan "gang" of senators to get past the partisan gridlock. For instance, there was the Gang of 14 group of senators who helped the Senate get beyond an......

by Mark Silva How much pressure will there be on Congress to enact an economic stimulus plan swiftly? House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says there will be no congressional recess for the Presidents' Day holiday if they haven't finished work by......

by Frank James Now that Timothy Geithner's nomination has cleared the Senate Finance Committee, it appears there may be a new precedent in Washington. Failing to initially pay federal taxes no longer disqualifies someone from becoming Treasury Secretary...

Embedded video from CNN Video by Frank James David Plouffe, President Barack Obama's campaign manager, was interviewed by John King on CNN today. The interview demonstrates two things. Plouffe remains in campaign mode and King will take any excuse to........

by Peter Nicholas President Obama is letting it be known that, yes, he's awfully upset about the bonuses paid to employees of AIG, the insurance giant that received a federal bailout. U.S. Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND) met privately with the......

by Frank James In an effort to boost pressure on congressional Republicans, President Barack Obama appealed to them to stop sniping at his budget proposals and to offer their own constructive ideas, saying that the current difficult times call for......

by Mark Silva The Red River has risen again. And Dakotans and Minnesotans have risen to the occasion, President Barack Obama said today in a weekly address saluting a spirit of community service that arises at times of crisis such......

by Mark Silva and Janet Hook President Barack Obama, pressing Congress for a record $3.55-trillion federal budget boosting spending on education, energy and health care, made a personal and private appeal today on Capitol Hill, where Democratic leaders...

by Janet Hook The broad outline of the $3.5-trillion spending blueprint that Congress approved this week hews closely to President Obama's spending targets and pays homage to his ambitious agenda. But the fine print contains a sobering warning about his.....