ARTICLES BY DONNA CASSATA

GOP steers toward hefty House majority

DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 10 YEARS AGO

For better or worse ...

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 10 YEARS AGO

Congress' task: Act fast on spending, return home

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

'That's the way they operate'

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

Failure to Act

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Business, GOP leaders say tea party is over

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 11 YEARS AGO

Adjusting their sights

WASHINGTON - "Obamacare" escaped unharmed from the government shutdown Republicans hoped would stop it, but just as quickly they have opened a new line of attack - one handed to them by the administration itself.

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 11 YEARS AGO

Spending stumbling block to budget deal

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Keep talking

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Conservative group presses McConnell on health law

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Obama, lawmakers square off over NSA

WASHINGTON - The Obama administration squared off with skeptical lawmakers Tuesday over efforts to terminate the government's authority to collect phone records of millions of Americans, a proposition that exposed sharp divisions among members of Congress.

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 11 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

Big brother is watching

WASHINGTON - A leaked document has laid bare the monumental scope of the government's surveillance of Americans' phone records - hundreds of millions of calls - in the first hard evidence of a massive data collection program aimed at combating terrorism under powers granted by Congress after the 9/11 attacks.

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 11 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO

Defiant Clinton takes on officials on Libya attack

WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered fiery rejoinders Wednesday to Republican critics of the Obama administration's handling of the deadly attack on a U.S. mission in Benghazi, facing off with lawmakers who included potential 2016 presidential rivals.

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 11 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO

Democrats maintain control of Senate

WASHINGTON - Democrats won a narrow majority in the Senate on Tuesday, snatching Republican-held seats in Massachusetts and Indiana and turning back fierce, expensive challenges in Virginia, Ohio and Connecticut to maintain the control they've held since 2007.

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 12 YEARS AGO

Democrats maintain control of U.S. Senate

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats secured a majority in the Senate on Tuesday, snatching Republican-held seats in Massachusetts and Indiana and turning back fierce, expensive challenges in Virginia, Ohio, Wisconsin and Connecticut to maintain the control they’ve held since 2007.

DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 12 YEARS AGO