Liz Halloran appears in the following:
4 Big Players Emerge In Military Sexual Assault Debate
Tuesday, June 04, 2013
The nation's top military leaders came to Capitol Hill on Tuesday primed to defend their ability to handle, in their chain of command, the sexual assault scandal that has engulfed the armed services.
But the dramatic faceoff with the Senate Armed Services Committee — in particular two of its female ...
Lautenberg's Death Sets Off New Jersey Senate Scramble
Monday, June 03, 2013
The traditionally collegial U.S. Senate was never a natural fit for Frank Lautenberg, the wealthy New Jersey businessman whose headstrong, CEO style could rankle.
But the five-term senator, who died early Monday at age 89, managed to serve as a passionate and able advocate for a tight collection of ...
Court Prepares To Write New Chapters In Civil Rights History
Saturday, June 01, 2013
It's not unusual for the Supreme Court to find itself at the center of roiling national debates.
But this month, justices are poised to deliver blockbuster opinions involving three of the most divisive issues in the public arena. And in doing so, they will write new and potentially groundbreaking chapters ...
Bachmann's Legacy: A Trailblazer, For Better And For Worse
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann's announcement Wednesday that she won't seek a fifth term unleashed a torrent of tweets and blog posts on the left lampooning the short-lived 2012 presidential candidate.
Yet the response — her retirement effectively dominated the news cycle — provided a glimpse of Bachmann's impact on ...
For Chris Christie, Obama Connection Has Risks, Rewards
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
President Obama's second trip to New Jersey to meet with Republican Gov. Chris Christie post-Superstorm Sandy was accompanied Tuesday with a familiar flurry of speculation.
The first time, last fall, Christie's gracious welcome of the president raised questions about whether it might affect Obama's re-election just weeks later.
This time, ...
Stunned By Military Sex Scandals, Advocates Demand Changes
Saturday, May 25, 2013
West Point alum Donna McAleer was at her Utah home last week when she got a call asking if she'd "seen the latest."
A male Army sergeant, a friend told her, had just been charged with secretly photographing and videotaping at least a dozen female cadets at McAleer's alma mater.
...Oklahoma's GOP Senators Find Themselves In Tornado Aid Bind
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Even as President Obama was declaring that tornado-devastated Oklahoma would get "everything it needs right away," the state's most vociferous critic of federal emergency aid vowed that he, too, would push for assistance "without delay."
Yet Republican Sen. Tom Coburn's position on federal aid came under close scrutiny in ...
Tesla Rides High, But Faces Formidable Foe: Car Dealers
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Tesla Motors, the American maker of luxury electric cars, has been riding a wave of good publicity.
Its Model S sedan (base priced at $62,400, after federal tax credits) was just named Motor Trend Car of the Year. Reviewers at Consumer Reports gave the lithium-ion battery powered vehicle a rave.
...When The Missing Return, Recovery Is Long, Too
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
They call themselves "Rooters," and they convene in a private online place they call the "RooterHood."
There, they can talk freely and frankly about what it was like to be kidnapped, to be stripped of identity, often sexually abused by their captors, separated from family, friends.
And also about the ...
On Military Sexual Assault Issue, A New Era for An Old Committee
Friday, May 10, 2013
Other bipartisan efforts on Capitol Hill may be collapsing around them, but a cadre of Democratic and Republican women serving on the Senate and House Armed Services committees are leveraging their historic clout to respond together to the sexual assault crisis engulfing the U.S. military.
In a Thursday gathering notable ...
Poll: Obama Approval Up, Effectiveness Down; GOP In Doldrums
Wednesday, May 08, 2013
President Obama's job approval has inched up in recent weeks, but the percentage of Americans who say they believe he is effective has taken a hit, according to a Pew Research Center survey released Wednesday.
And while the image of Republican leadership remains "deeply negative," and continues bearing the brunt ...
Joy, And New Hope, For All Families Of The Missing
Tuesday, May 07, 2013
Parents in a networking group for missing children were at a strategy dinner Monday night, discussing the terrors of Internet exploitation and the need for better communication with law enforcement, when news out of Cleveland hit somebody's smartphone and reverberated through the hotel conference room.
"All of a sudden someone ...
Bulletproof Whiteboards And The Marketing Of School Safety
Saturday, May 04, 2013
A recent news item out of Minnesota caught our eye: "Bulletproof Whiteboards Unveiled at Rocori Schools."
Bulletproof what? Where?
That would be whiteboards, at the small central Minnesota Rocori School District, which will spend upward of $25,000 for the protective devices produced by a company better known for ...
Palmetto Faceoff: Sanford, Colbert Busch In Spirited Debate
Monday, April 29, 2013
Republican Mark Sanford's bid to salvage a political career and Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch's effort to start one collided in a vigorous debate Monday just eight days before South Carolina voters decide whom to send to Washington.
The fast-paced hour at The Citadel in Charleston marked the first, and only, ...
Max Baucus Says He Was Montana's 'Hired Hand' On Gun Vote
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Longtime Democratic Sen. Max Baucus of Montana announced this week that he would not seek re-election next year, ending four decades in Congress and leaving as chairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee.
NPR's Robert Siegel spoke with Baucus Thursday about his recent vote against expanded gun background checks, his ...
The Meaning Of Boston: Depends On Your Angle, Literally
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
The opportunistic political sentiment of never letting a crisis go to waste (see: Rahm Emanuel, among others) has been reframed since the Boston bombings by those seizing on the attack as certain evidence of their positions.
In the Los Angeles Times recently, columnist Doyle McManus referred to the ...
Bush Sees Approval Hike, But Trumanesque Recovery? Unlikely
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
A poll released days before the opening of George W. Bush's presidential library in Dallas is serving as fodder for some sequestered GOP nostalgia about his two terms in the White House.
The Washington Post survey suggests that the 33 percent approval rating Bush took with ...
A Rand Paul White House Path Complicated By Dad's Legacy
Monday, April 22, 2013
Freshman Sen. Rand Paul insists that he won't decide until next year whether a 2016 presidential run is in his future.
But comments the Kentucky Tea Party Republican made this week at a newsmaker breakfast about a run — "we're considering it" — as well as upcoming speaking ...
Tragedy In Real Time: Living A Terrible Week, Vicariously
Sunday, April 21, 2013
We have imagined ourselves searching like Kelly Manning for loved ones after the explosions on Boylston Street.
We have pictured ourselves huddling in the basement like Beth and Paul Robinson and their four children as bullets and bombs fly on our own city street.
We have thought about ...
Boston Bombing Suspects Are Brothers Living In U.S. For Years
Friday, April 19, 2013
Updated 1:50 p.m. ET: (Correcting that brothers shared an apartment in Cambridge, not Watertown.)
The suspects in Monday's deadly Boston Marathon explosions and the Thursday night murder of a police officer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are two brothers from a former Soviet republic who were in the United ...