Judd Gregg

by Mark Silva We hoped to avert any references to Abraham Lincoln today, and perhaps for another 100 years, but President Barack Obama found a way, at the end of a daylong celebration of Lincoln's bicentennial last night, to make......

by Mark Silva President Barack Obama will fly to Denver, the place where he accepted the Democratic Party's nomination last summer, to sign the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act'' into law on Tuesday. It's "as good'' a place "as any"......

by Mark Silva It was corruption in the appointment of a U.S. senator from Illinois that led to the constitutional amendment requiring the election of U.S. senators. And now Illinois corruption in the appointment of a replacement for a departing,......

by Peter Nicholas and Tom Hamburger and updated President Obama is expected to select former Washington state Gov. Gary Locke as commerce secretary, a position that the White House has had a difficult time filling. The president is expected to......

by Mark Silva President Barack Obama today nominated Gary Locke, former governor of Washington, to serve as secretary of commerce. The former two-term Democratic governor who left office in 2005, the nation's first Chinese-American governor when he took...

by Mark Silva Sen. Judd Gregg could have been in the Obama Cabinet. If he were, the New Hampshire Republican whom President Barack Obama nominated for Commerce secretary only to see Gregg withdraw over irreconcilable political differences, would face a......

by Mark Silva Add another voice to the chorus of Republicans who hope that President Barack Obama's "liberal'' agenda "fails:'' Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts who sought the Republican Party's presidential nomination last year, made his...

by Mark Silva Sen. Judd Gregg, the New Hampshire Republican who was ready to serve as President Barack Obama's Commerce Secretary until realizing that he had irreconcilable political differences with the new Democratic president, cites the biggest of...

by Mark Silva The nation's economy should be starting its recovery by the end of this year, President Barack Obama's chief economic adviser said today. ""I have every expectation, as do private forecasters, that we will bottom out this year,"......

by Mark Silva The man set to take charge of the 2010 Census, a University of Michigan professor who has worked at the great national headcount before, has supported the idea of statistical sampling to offset actual undercounts of minorities.......

Which was the most fevered lunge for self-promotion by a power player? 1) U.S. Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.), who once campaigned to be Commerce secretary, for calling President Obama???s budget ???an extraordinary move to the left.??? 2) Senate Majority...

by Mark Silva A lot of narrative and analysis is devoted this weekend to the First 100 Days of President Barack Obama, a milestone that the president will reach Wednesday -- with his own evening news conference at the White......