President Barack Obama#39;s appointments to two key agencies during the Senate#39;s year-end break ensures that GOP senators will return to work Monday in an angry and fighting mood.

President Barack Obama#39;s appointments to two key agencies during the Senate#39;s year-end break ensures that GOP senators will return to work Monday in an angry and fighting mood.

BALTIMORE — House Republican leaders pleaded for elusive unity from the disparate factions in their party as they pursue a dual election-year prize of retaining their majority and denying President Barack Obama a second term.

President Barack Obama and the U.S. Congress are back where they were before Christmas, locked in an election-season tussle over a proposed 1,700-mile oil pipeline from Canada to Texas.

GOP leaders jumped on the news that President Barack Obama is stopping the Keystone XL Pipeline from Canada, and charged him with putting his political fortunes ahead of the good of the country.