Richard Simon

President Obama touted his plan for developing high-speed railways Thursday, detailing how $13 billion in federal money would act as a "down payment" on creating speedier passenger train service. "High-speed...

President Barack Obama announced Monday that highway projects spurred by the administration's $787 billion economic stimulus plan are coming in "ahead of schedule and under budget," but the program's early...

President Franklin Roosevelt's prescription for the Depression included the same general public works spending found in the economic recovery bill just signed by President Barack Obama. And FDR left a...

President Barack Obama and Senate Democratic leaders, propelled by news of the biggest one-month job losses in 35 years, on Friday hammered out a deal that clears the way for...

With Congress moving toward passage of an $800 billion-plus economic stimulus plan, big government is back. The stimulus is bigger than the Pentagon's entire budget. It's more than the U.S....

As trumpets played and drums rolled, Barack Obama walked smiling out of the Capitol and into the winter sun to take his oath of office, stopping to embrace an icon...

The U.S. Senate's top two Democratic leaders said Tuesday that any senator chosen by Gov. Rod Blagojevich would now be irrevocably tainted by the allegations of corruption against the governor...

In a last-minute effort to avoid a stalemate that could have cost hundreds of thousands of jobs, congressional leaders agreed Thursday to give Detroit automakers more time to make their...

Federal investigators said Wednesday that an Interior Department group in charge of collecting billions of dollars in oil and natural gas royalties was compromised for years by a "culture of...