Posted: 1:05 PM The Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act was supported by business groups because its aim is to make it easier for small, private firms to get venture capital through initial public offerings.
Posted: 8:13 AM With three weeks before the presidential election, the administration has been unable to put to rest its handling of the Benghazi attack that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens
Posted: 6:52 AM In the rough-and-tumble of a town hall-style presidential debate, the facts took something of a beating Tuesday night.
Posted: 6:41 AM President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney sparred with passion and grit in a debate that keeps circling back to bedrock questions about which candidate can do more to strengthen the fragile economy.
Posted: 6:36 AM The pressure is on President Barack Obama to deliver a Goldilocks performance in the second debate: Not too cool, as he was in his first, listless encounter with Mitt Romney.
Posted: 6:34 AM These might sound like simple principles, but it seems that candidates sometimes forget that during debates, they're being watched not just when they're speaking, but when they're listening.
Updated: 6:30 AM Will Mitt Romney miscount the number of unemployed, as he has before? Will President Barack Obama's dubious claim of a peace dividend, bopped down in the last debate, rise again?
Posted: 5:22 PM The League of Women Voters of Knoxville/Knox County has a new tool to offer voters who need information on candidates and more.
Posted: 1:49 PM A Washington, D.C.-based legal watchdog group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has filed a complaint with the Tennessee Dept. of Health against Rep. Scott Desjarlais
Posted: 1:22 PM A study out Monday says most Medicare recipients — 59 percent — would pay higher premiums under a hypothetical privatized system, with wide regional differences leading to big hikes in some states.
Posted: 8:15 AM Curious what Virginia Republican Senate candidate George Allen thinks about his own party's law that forces women seeking abortions to have ultrasounds? Too bad. He refused to say during a recent debate.
Posted: 8:12 AM When the two candidates step back into the public eye at the debate, there will be exactly three weeks left until Election Day. But early voting is already underway in dozens of states
Posted: 7:07 AM Specter, 82, died Sunday, after spending much of his career in the U.S. Senate warning of the dangers of political intolerance.
Posted: 6:36 AM The every-four-years ritual of a national "town hall" style debate began as a nerve-racking experiment in live television.
Posted: 12:32 PM White House spokesman Jay Carney said that when Biden said "we weren't told," he meant the White House, President Barack Obama and himself.
Updated: 7:51 AM Joe Biden and Paul Ryan teed up pointed arguments on the economy, social policy and America's place in the world that President Barack Obama and GOP rival Mitt Romney now will drive home
Posted: 7:42 AM Anyone who paid attention to a hearing in Congress this week knew that the administration had been implored to beef up security at the U.S. Consulate in Libya before the deadly terrorist attack there.
Posted: 7:19 AM An increasingly bitter California congressional race between two House Democrats turned physical Thursday when one aggressively seized the shoulder of his opponent during a debate
Updated: 12:34 PM While the Tennessee Republican Party appears to be standing behind DesJarlais, other GOP leaders in the state like Gov. Bill Haslam and Sen. Lamar Alexander have declined to get involve
Posted: 12:43 PM The Tennessee GOP appears to be standing by a freshman congressman seeking re-election despite the revelation of a recorded conversation of the pro-life proponent urging his mistress to get an abortion.
Updated: 7:46 AM Democrat Joe Biden and Republican Paul Ryan pull up a couple of chairs for a vice presidential debate that has mushroomed in importance since Mitt Romney's strong showing in the first presidential faceoff.
Posted: 7:44 AM Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney is promising to get tough on China to help American workers, but his plans could backfire.
Posted: 7:42 AM The mother of a former Navy SEAL killed in Libya has called on Mitt Romney to stop talking about her son during his political campaign.
Posted: 7:40 AM Gihan Perera of the group Florida New Majority said training sessions are being held for observers and communications lines set up to respond to problems.
Posted: 1:37 PM The freshman congressman running for re-election on a pro-life platform urged his pregnant mistress to get an abortion a decade ago, according to a transcript of the recorded conversation.
