Steve Daley

The meeting at the White House came after the Nov. 7 elections, but the women on the presidential guest list were too polite to make that point. A week after...

She has spent 20 years in television, a black woman reporter from a large East Coast city. Last week she was in Richmond, Va., to chronicle the first election of...

All through a long Wednesday, members of Congress preened and expressed pleasure with their handiwork. In concert with President Bush, Democrats and Republicans came up with a plan to raise...

On Capitol Hill, sands are shifting, pendulums are swinging, momentum is changing. Pick your favorite cliche and stake out your latest position. That`s what America`s elected representatives are doing as...

You can talk about George Bush`s principles on abortion, but you`d have trouble identifying them in the daylight. Over the last two decades, Bush has touched all the ideological bases....

President Bush will veto a bill that would allow the use of Medicaid funds for abortions in cases of rape and incest, continuing the political battle with Congress over the...

Since George Bush made his inaugural address from ''America`s front porch'' in January, the Democratic porch-sitters on Capitol Hill have been straining to drag the President into the fray. Last...

As the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act of 1988 tumbled toward an overwhelming repeal vote in the House last week, one Democratic staffer offered this wry assessment: There may never be...

When the names of serious public-policy analysts are bandied about in Washington, Rep. Marty Russo (D., Ill.) seldom gets a mention. But in a career that moves between Chicago`s Southwest...

Worrying about the Democratic Party is a popular pastime in the nation`s capital, right up there with collecting honorariums and talking about the drug war. Earlier this month, a collection...