Lindsey O. Graham

Sen. Orrin Hatch emerges as key GOP vote on immigration

2013-05-21 10:13:00

WASHINGTON – When Sen. Orrin Hatch takes his seat on the dais in the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings, the 79-year-old slides into his status as the most sought-after vote for immigration reform. A towering but genteel figure, Hatch is seen...

Commencement speakers: Conservatives need not apply

2013-05-19 00:00:00

We have once again entered the college commencement season, which means we'll soon be reading about uplifting graduation speeches delivered by prominent Americans. Or at least by prominent liberal Americans. It's becoming increasingly apparent that...

Senate panel focuses on enforcement in immigration bill

2013-05-16 16:55:00

WASHINGTON — Senators kept the bipartisan immigration bill largely unchanged Thursday after dispatching dozens of proposed amendments even as they punted many of the thorniest issues to next week. The day's session at the Senate Judiciary...

McCain again calls for special congressional panel on Benghazi

2013-05-12 11:27:00

WASHINGTON — Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) pressed Sunday for a special congressional committee to investigate the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, last year, insisting that questions about former Secretary of State...

Congress speaks with a loud, muddled voice on Syria

2013-05-11 19:28:00

WASHINGTON — Sen. Dianne Feinstein made headlines recently by demanding a forceful U.S. response to Syria's use of chemical weapons against its population. Less noticed was that the California Democrat wasn't urging deeper military involvement...

Many amendments, few changes to immigration overhaul

2013-05-09 13:26:00

WASHINGTON -- Senators on Thursday began the arduous task of going through some 300 proposed amendments to the delicately constructed bipartisan immigration bill. By lunch, they had disposed of 17. With a packed audience of many pro-immigration...

Letters: Debating Guantanamo

2013-05-07 00:00:00

Re "Obama's Gitmo woes," Opinion, May 5 As a fan of Doyle McManus, I was disappointed to read his claim that most of the detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay were anti-American extremists when they were apprehended. Our own government has...

In South Carolina, an ex-governor's quest continues

2013-05-04 22:14:00

CHARLESTON, S.C. — At a harborside reception overlooking Ft. Sumter, where the Civil War began, Mark Sanford batted away a TV reporter's question about the latest insult to his comeback campaign: an unwanted endorsement from pornographer Larry...

McManus: Obama's Gitmo woes

2013-05-04 08:28:00

President Obama sounded genuinely outraged last week when he talked about the Kafkaesque situation at the Guantanamo prison camp, where the United States has been holding 166 men without trial for terms that are, at this point, officially endless. "It's...

Zuckerberg's advocacy ads under fire

2013-05-01 21:49:00

SAN FRANCISCO — Mark Zuckerberg is the public face of one of the world's most prominent companies. But now it's his actions as a private citizen that are making him — and Facebook Inc. — a target of environmentalists and progressive...

Mark Zuckerberg's Fwd.us in heated controversy over political ads

2013-05-01 11:23:00

SAN FRANCISCO -- Mark Zuckerberg is being unfriended by progressives angered by television ads from his political advocacy group Fwd.us that praise lawmakers for supporting the expansion of the Keystone XL oil pipeline and drilling in the Arctic...

The hawks are squawking about Obama's rubbery red line in Syria

2013-05-01 05:00:00

The hawks are squawking. Congressional conservatives and the right-wing media are blasting President Obama for going soft on the Syrians. The president insists that there is a "game-changing" red line the Syrian government will have crossed if it is...

Senators at an April news conference on immigration, from left: Jeff Flake (R-Ariz Marco Rubio (R-Fla Charles Schumer, Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) John McCain (R-Ariz.)

2013-05-16 17:48:30

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz right, listens as Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) discusses the investigation of the deadly Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi during a news conference on Capitol Hill.

2012-12-21 00:00:00

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C speak on Capitol Hill following a meeting with U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice.

2012-11-27 00:00:00