7 results for "Michael D. Shear"
Obama wants staff to focus on his agenda
Saturday, May 18, 2013 at 12:00 AMPresident Barack Obama, struggling to find his footing after one of his most turbulent weeks in office, will try to push past the moment's political furor with a focus on the few pieces of legislation he believes have a chance in Congress an...
U.S. to appeal order on morning-after pill
Thursday, May 2, 2013 at 12:00 AMThe Obama administration said Wednesday that girls younger than 15 should not have access to the most common morning-after contraceptive pill as the Justice Department filed a notice to appeal a judge's order that would make the drug availab...
GOP frets over foreign policy shift
Friday, March 15, 2013 at 12:00 AMFor more than three decades, the Republican Party brand has been deeply tied to a worldview in which the aggressive use of American power abroad is both a policy imperative and a political advantage.
Rapid change in electorate tests GOP
Thursday, November 8, 2012 at 12:00 AMOnly a couple of decades ago, Prince William County was one of the mostly white, somewhat rural, far-flung suburbs where Republican candidates went to accumulate the votes to win elections in Virginia.
Romney aides downplay tax talk to donors
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 at 12:00 AMSenior advisers to Mitt Romney said Monday that Romney, the presumptive Republican nominee, was merely tossing around ideas, not making policy announcements, when his chat with donors about some significant changes to the tax code was overheard ...
Criticism of Romney's wife sparks firestorm
Friday, April 13, 2012 at 12:00 AMThe campaign for the White House spilled into the politics of motherhood Thursday as a combative back-and-forth involving a Democratic strategist and Mitt Romney's wife revived a deeper, decades-old cultural debate about the roles of women i...
Romney, in D.C., wins praise of tea party leader
Friday, March 23, 2012 at 12:00 AMMitt Romney stepped up his efforts to rally Republicans around his candidacy on Thursday with several hours of private appeals to lawmakers on Capitol Hill and renewed pressure on his rivals to bow to political reality.
