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Recalls of millions of unsafe toys may be part of the price of Americans buying products manufactured in China under sweatshop conditions or by forced prison labor, worker advocates told a Senate panel.
The House's top Democratic tax writer outlined a $1 trillion plan Thursday to eliminate the alternative minimum tax and ease the tax burdens of most people by asking the rich and some companies to pay more.
A House committee on Wednesday approved an overhaul of a program designed to help workers who lose their jobs because of foreign competition.
Legislation to give some children of illegal immigrants a path toward legality failed a crucial Senate vote Wednesday, probably dooming any chance of major changes to the immigration system this year.
A Republican U.S. attorney general from the first Bush administration told a House panel Tuesday he thinks the Justice Department had political aims in prosecuting a high-profile Democratic coroner from Pennsylvania.
By any measure, President Bush had a good week on Capitol Hill.
Democrat Niki Tsongas on Thursday was sworn in to the House seat her late husband Paul Tsongas held in the 1970s, becoming the first woman to represent Massachusetts in nearly 25 years.
Pressure is building for Congress to protect millions of taxpayers from an automatic tax increase caused by the alternative minimum tax, and the House's top tax writer promised Wednesday to advance a stopgap bill to stave it off.
The widow of 1992 presidential candidate Paul Tsongas claimed victory in a special election for the U.S. House, becoming the first woman to represent Massachusetts in Congress in nearly 25 years.
Shrugging off a veto threat by President Bush, the Senate passed a $57 billion bill Tuesday that restores major cuts to an anti-crime program that Bush has sought to virtually eliminate.
The 398-21 roll call Tuesday by which the House passed a bill that would protect the confidentiality of reporters' sources in most federal court cases.
Statements on the media shield bill passed by the House Tuesday:
A Yahoo Inc. executive was accused Tuesday of giving false testimony to Congress last year regarding the company's role in the arrest of a Chinese journalist.
The House on Tuesday strongly backed the right of reporters to protect the confidentiality of sources in most federal court cases, saying that right was crucial to a free and effective press. The White House, warning that the media shield bill would encourage leaks of classified information, threatened a veto.
A 17-year-old Eagle Scout wanting to honor his grandfather's "love of God, country and family" with a flag flown over the U.S. Capitol has helped remove a ban on the word "God" in certificates that accompany these flags.
The House could vote as soon as next week on a bill to shield reporters from having to reveal their sources in some federal court cases, a senior Democratic official in the House said Wednesday.
Flags over the U.S. Capitol were flying at half-staff again this week as lawmakers for the fifth time in just eight months mourned the passing of one of their own.
Highchairs, cribs and other durable infant products would be sold with a postage-paid registration card so consumers would be informed quickly of recalls, under legislation the House passed Tuesday.
Financial relief for homeowners facing foreclosure or in bankruptcy advanced in the House Thursday when the House approved legislation to help financially strapped homeowners.
The Senate decided Thursday to add $1 billion to NASA's budget as both Democrats and Republicans voted to further break President Bush's budget for domestic programs.
The Associated Press-Ipsos poll on President Bush and Congress was conducted October 1-3, 2007, based on telephone interviews with a nationally representative random sample of 1,005 adults from all states except Alaska and Hawaii.
The House passed a bill Thursday that would make all private contractors working in Iraq and other combat zones subject to prosecution by U.S. courts. It was the first major response by Congress to a deadly shooting in Baghdad involving Blackwater USA security guards.
Public approval for President Bush and Congress has hit new lows in The Associated Press-Ipsos poll.
The House will vote by year's end on legislation that would shield reporters from being forced to reveal their sources in some cases in federal court, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday.