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Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne and Graham Nash are putting a new millennium twist on their 1970s anti-nuclear message, urging Congress not to approve federal loan guarantees for new nuclear power plants. Complete Story...
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.
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.
National anti-abortion leaders Wednesday put finishing touches on a letter to be sent to all members of Congress urging suspension of more than $300 million in federal funding of Planned Parenthood until a massive criminal case brought in Kansas against the abortion rights organi …
Sorry, Republicans: S-CHIP reauthorization and expansion is not going away.
President Bush has been in office almost 7 years and has made mistakes, bad decisions and has failed to act on some major issues. Overall Iraq is a failure. The huge increase in the national debt is a big ,failure. He has added many laws that allow excessive spying.
(4) Checks and balances have withered since 9/11 and an alarming concentration of power has been accumulated in the presidency based on hyper-inflated fears of international terrorism and a desire permanently to alter the equilibrium of power between the three branches of governm …
Barack Obama learned campaign humility the hard way -- in a failed congressional effort during which his opponent portrayed him as an ''educated fool,'' more at home on a college campus than a city street.
House to vote very soon The House will vote Thursday, October 25, on a new SCHIP bill that is being crafted in a way that will attract more votes in order to make it veto-proof.
"First of all, I pray for President Bush all the time, and I pray especially hard that he would sign the children's health bill because it's so important for America's children," Pelosi said on Fox News Sunday.
We've all heard the phrase "Fish or cut bait". I never really gave it much thought, it's pretty much self explanatory. We have tons of little witisms like this, "Put up or shut up", "Poop or get off the pot" are just a few examples that comes to mind.
In each new Congress since 1995, Rep. John Shadegg, R-Ariz., has introduced the Enumerated Powers Act (HR 1359).
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's popularity in his home state of Nevada sank to an all-time low that mirrors dissatisfaction nationwide with the Democrat-led Congress, polls show.
The hearing considers scientific assessments of the impacts of global climate change on wildfire activity in the United States.
Dick Cheney's craziness used to influence foreign policy. Now it is foreign policy.
After years of ignoring congressional letters and rejecting requests for testimony, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has finally agreed to subject herself to a grilling before Henry Waxman (D-CA) and the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
It seemed like shocking news last week when the telecommunications giant Verizon admitted it has readily allowed warrantless national security investigators to browse customer records on thousands of occasions.
In a "Dear Colleague" letter sent last week to lawmakers, the six senior House Democratic leaders noted that bipartisan majorities have passed lobbying and ethics reforms, an increase in the minimum wage, a massive increase in student aid, legislation to implement the 9/11 Co …
Planned US spending on the "global war on terror" is set to rise sharply in the coming year, despite claims from the president, George Bush, that al-Qaida is on the run in Iraq.
The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee called on the Bush administration yesterday to delay the planned launch of a multi-billion-dollar cybersecurity initiative so that Congress could have time to evaluate it.
On a very serious note, I want to apologize to my colleagues, many of whom I have offended, to the President, his family, (and) to the troops," said Stark
(4) Checks and balances have withered since 9/11 and an alarming concentration of power has been accumulated in the presidency based on hyper-inflated fears of international terrorism and a desire permanently to alter the equilibrium of power between the three branches of governm …
The State Department should urgently engage with the Department of Justice and the Office of Management and Budget, and then with the Congress, to establish a clear legal basis for holding contractors accountable under U.S. law
The Democratic Party in Congress, and indeed the leading candidates for the party's presidential nomination, are all dead men and women walking. They look alive. They may even think they're alive. But their political futures are close to moribund.
When the Senate passed a resolution declaring a faction of the Iranian government a terrorist organization, the faction is led by a commander in chief, the Supreme Ayatollah of Iran, who is declared, inherently, a terrorist himself.
Unless Congress acts soon to prevent a special "millionaires" tax from hitting middle-income families, as many as 50 million taxpayers, or 37 percent of the total, will face an unexpected tax increase, a delay in receiving refunds or a delay in having their tax return processed.
Representative Peterson speaks in favor of House Concurrent Resolution 25 (H. Con. Res.
Sen. Boxer introduces Sens.
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