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The State Department said Iran’s support for terrorism was “undiminished” in 2014.

Amid speculation by BJP about his whereabouts, Congress VP today tweeted a picture of his attending the Aspen conference in the US. “It is this behaviour which has made him a spoilt child of Indian politics”, he added.

The U.S. Congress failed to block the implementation of a deal between Iran and six world powers that trades curbs on Iran’s nuclear program for the elimination of many sanctions that have been placed on the country.

North country Congresswoman Elise Stefanik is calling for Congress to avoid a government shutdown at the end of September, a position that places her at odds with the most conservative members of her own Republican party.

Problems will arise once Iran gets the sanctions relief, he predicted, and it will start to dig in its heels. Those terms would not be acceptable to the United States for the same reasons they are not acceptable to any nation with self-pride and respect for its own history,...

Appearing Sunday on CBS’s Face the Nation, Boehner was asked by host John Dickerson whether some in his party were “unrealistic about what can be done in government”.

Just two days after announcing he was quitting Congress, House Speaker John Boehner yelled and cried through an interview – focusing his ire on the “false prophets” in the right-wing of the Republican Party.

House Speaker John Boehner, who announced of Friday he will be stepping down and resigning from Congress on October 30, said his more conservative opponents are not being realistic about how things are accomplished in Washington.

While Boehner is giving up the reigns, his rocky tenure is not over yet; during the interview, he pledged one of his final actions as speaker would be to avert a government shutdown over Planned Parenthood. Boehner allies are reportedly pushing for his chief deputy House Majority...

Trump has a core of hard support from voters who rally to his harsh anti-undocumented-immigrant rhetoric.Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump is boasting about keeping his lead in the polls, but that isn’t deterring him from sniping at rivals and complaining...

So I want to sanction this IRGC individual who has been in Syria helping the Assad regime gas his own people.

The next steps aren’t set in stone, although McConnell has promised there won’t be a government shutdown. Threatening to shut down the government if Planned Parenthood funding remains in the current budget has certainly been their most prominent – and urgent –...

The United States of America has had a major investment in the Islamic Republic of Iran since the 20th Century, from ousting Mossadegh in 1953 to place a new Shah on the throne to watching the embassy fall in 1979.

Let’s quickly dispatch the notion that the United States should abandon an global agreement, reached with some of our closest allies, because Iran has been “cheating for 30 years“.

Members of Congress are regularly asked to make serious decisions with far-reaching implications.