Elaine S. Povich

Buoyed by the release of a captured American pilot, President Clinton launched a broad defense of his overall foreign policy Thursday and insisted that his new strategy in Somalia is...

President Clinton and his Capitol Hill allies searched frantically Tuesday for the single Democratic vote that would assure Senate passage of the administration's budget plan this week. As a crucial...

The White House moved quickly Tuesday to counter its chief budget officer's gloomy assessment of the prospects for enactment of President Clinton's economic programs, as major cracks began appearing in...

With the ink hardly dry on an economic plan calling for major tax increases, President Clinton and his top aides indicated Friday that the American people may be facing a...

Battered by recession and weary of Washington politicians with pockets full of promises, Chicago area residents said Wednesday night they would nevertheless give President Clinton a chance to resolve the...

And now it is the Clinton era. With a simple, centuries-old, 35-word oath, William Jefferson Clinton on Wednesday became the 42nd president of the United States and the first commander...

Four newly elected women already are having an impact on the U.S. Senate. For one thing, they are going to get their own restroom right off the Senate floor, just...

Try as they might, the Illinois party can`t seem to avoid the divisive issue of abortion any better than Republicans nationally. While party leaders have pushed a ''big tent'' strategy...

The idea was not to have a media event, but to visit a side of life that was once very important to the Democratic Party, one of the patches in...

On the day the Democratic National Convention opened for prime time, the party whose ticket is topped by men congratulated itself for the Year of the Woman. At staged events...