Clashes loom as new Congress opens

By: Associated Press - Texarkana Gazette

Associated Press • House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, holds up a gavel Thursday in the House chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington after being re-elected House speaker.

Associated Press • Members of the 113th Congress, many accompanied by family members, take the oath of office Thursday in the House of Representatives chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington.

WASHINGTON—A new Congress opened for business Thursday to confront long-festering national problems, deficits and immigration among them, in an intensely partisan and crisis-driven era of divided government. “The American dream is in peril,” said House Speaker John Boehner, re-e...

Published: 01/04/2013