AOL News has a new home! The Huffington Post.
Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!Hot on HuffPost:
See More Stories
Executive Behind Lavish Conference Leaves Agency
Warren And Brown Neck And Neck In New Poll
JanetNapolitano
Louisiana Oil Spill, Day 34: Anger Mounts as Cleanup Lags
By Ben Sandmel - Politics DailyNEW ORLEANS -- Thirty-four days after the Deepwater Horizon explosion, Louisiana officials have lost patience with BP, the Coast Guard and the Army Corps of Engineers. "I don't have a crystal ball," said Craig Taffaro, St. Bernard Parish president. "But if I were a betting man, I would be betting that [BP's] plan is to let us die, then come back and do $75 million of cleanup, then close the book." That sum -- $75 million -- is the federally mandated cap for oil-spill clean-up expenditure. BP has promised to address the long-term needs of everyone affected by the spill, especially commercial ...
Gov. Jan Brewer Uses Frog Puppet in Immigration Video to Mock Obama Officials
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyArizona Gov. Jan Brewer is using a frog puppet in a campaign video to hammer Obama administration officials for failing to read her state's recently passed immigration law, even as they criticized the measure. In the video, which is paid for by Brewer's re-election campaign, a green frog leads a sing-along about the importance of reading, transposed with video of congressional testimony by Attorney General Eric Holder and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. "Reading is really super swell," sings the frog. "Reading helps you know what you're talking about." During recent appearances ...
More High-Tech Setbacks for Border Security
By G.W. Schulz - Politics DailyThe Obama administration's recent surprise decision to suspend new work on a multibillion-dollar high-tech border control system -- the third attempted since 1997 -- raises further questions about the government's use of computer networks and sensors in an effort to seal the border with Mexico. As part of a broad illegal immigration crackdown called the Secure Border Initiative, a seamless "virtual fence" launched in 2005 was supposed to be up and running by last year. Among other things, the project known as SBInet called for a vast surveillance system along the 2,000-mile Southwestern ...
Is Kagan Gay? It's All the Talk, and That's a Shame
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyLet's face it. To the world at large, being gay is a terrible thing to be. People whisper the word, gossip about it, trade in innuendos about it, as if being gay were a crime. That brings us to Elena Kagan. Here she is: a brilliant, accomplished, fabulously successful lawyer and professor, dean of the Ivies, academic par excellence, and a good-time gal, a former smoker who plays poker and can swing a bat. She's a New Yorker, a child of the Upper West Side of Manhattan, dutiful daughter of dutiful liberal parents, and soon-to-be Supreme Court justice. Who could ask for anything more? Well, ...
Transcript of News Conference by Eric Holder and Janet Napolitano on Bomb Arrest
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailySPEAKERS: ATTORNEY GENERAL ERIC HOLDER JANET NAPOLITANO, SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY NEW YORK POLICE CHIEF RAYMOND KELLY; JOHN PISTOLE, FBI DEPUTY DIRECTOR [*] HOLDER: Faisal Shahzad was arrested late last night in connection with his alleged role in the attempted car bombing in Times Square last Saturday. Shahzad, a naturalized United States citizen, born in Pakistan, is in federal custody today. He has been and continues to be questioned by federal agents. As a result of those communications, Shahzad has provided useful information to authorities. We anticipate charging him with an ...
Administration Says It Acted Quickly on Gulf Coast Oil Spill
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyAs President Obama travelled to the Gulf coast to get a firsthand briefing on the massive oil spill threatening the coastline, administration officials took to the talk shows Sunday to insist that the government had acted quickly to try to contain the oil leak and minimize the chances of an environmental disaster. "The administration responded with all hands on deck from day one," said Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano on Fox News Sunday. " What happened is the situation itself evolved. The situation evolved from an explosion and a search-and-rescue mission to several days later ...
Obama Aide: No New Drilling Until Oil Rig Blast Explained
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyWith reports that floating oil from a huge spill in the Gulf of Mexico has reached Louisiana shores, a top aide to President Obama said Friday no "additional drilling" for offshore oil will be approved until investigators determine what caused the recent explosion on a deep water rig. In late March, Obama lifted a decades-old moratorium on oil drilling off the mid- and south-Atlantic coasts, areas in the Gulf not currently leased, and in waters off Alaska. But no new leases have been granted as yet, and White House adviser David Axelrod said "none will until we find out what has happened ...
Immigration Reform: First Secure Border, Says Sen. Lindsey Graham
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailySen. Lindsey Graham and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano clashed Tuesday over whether the Senate should move forward immediately on immigration reform, with Graham betting "everything I own" that a comprehensive bill will not pass this year unless the nation first secures its border with Mexico. An angry Graham (R-S.C.) earlier backed away from his support for a climate change bill after learning the Obama adminstration wants to begin a new push for immigration reform, with legislation likely to grant legal status to undocumented workers -- if certain conditions are met. The ...
Obama Calls Arizona Immigration Bill 'Misguided,' Presses Congress for Reform
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyCalling a bill cracking down on immigrants in Arizona "misguided," President Barack Obama said Friday the federal government will closely monitor the situation in the state for possible civil rights violations. Hours after Obama spoke, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed the bill into law -- making it a crime not to carry proof of legal status and authorizing law enforcement officers to ask about a person's immigration status if they have doubts. Obama said the law "threatened to undermine basic notions of fairness that we cherish as Americans, as well as the trust between police and their ...
Supreme Court Vacancy: Obama Consults Dem, GOP Leaders -- Again
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyPresident Obama met Wednesday with Democratic and Republican Senate leaders amid signs the White House is moving quickly on finding a successor to Justice John Paul Stevens, who is retiring in June. It was the second time Obama and Vice President Biden have met with the bipartisan group since Stevens announced his departure on April 9. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala) were on the invite list, along with Majority Leader Harry Reid and Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.). Obama wants to get his nominee confirmed by the Senate before the start of the high ...
Follow Politics Daily
POPULAR
- Nancy Pelosi Confirms House May Skip Up or Down Vote on Senate Health Bill
- Debrahlee Lorenzana: A Double Take on Those Double D's
- Campbell Brown Quits CNN With Shockingly Frank Farewell
- Palin Earnings Estimated at $12 Million
- The Five Most Racist Obama Cartoons?
- Jimmy Carter Leaves Church Over Treatment of Women
- Soraya M., Stoned to Death for Being an "Inconvenient Wife''
- No posts are available.
News From Our Partners
- Dragon arrives at space station in historic 1st
- Picking new leader, Egyptians search for superman
- Egyptians vote in first free presidential vote
- Moon chips from Vegas casino mogul sent to NASA
- Egyptians vote to rid nation of autocratic rule
- More Stories »
- 'Masters of the Universe' Sure Have Fragile Egos
- Romney: My Mistakes 'Haunt Me'
- Newt Lauds Romney: He's Like Eisenhower
- Irked Senate Panel Votes 30-0 to Cut Pakistan Aid
- GSA Bash Organizer Steps Down
- More Stories »
- Know Your Enemy
- Obama’s Challenge in Egypt
- The Edwards Waiting Game
- Are Doctors Doing Too Much?
- The Pagan Cult of Reagan
- More Stories »
- Ambition Counteracting Ambition
- Robert Blagojevich Speaks Out
- In Iowa, Obama Calls Romney's Words 'A Cow Pie of Distortion'
- In Iowa, Obama Calls On Congress to Act on Clean Energy Tax Credits
- Romney Has Interesting Morning in Inner-City Philly
- More Stories »
Top News
More News
More on Aol
Local News
More Blog/Sites
Sites and Services
HuffPost Politics