Obama threatens veto of House student loan plan
President Barack Obama on Wednesday threatened to veto legislation by House Republicans that would avert a doubling of student loan interest rates on ...
House panel moves to curb military sexual assaults
Members of a House panel angry over the growing epidemic of sexual assaults in the military took a key step toward tackling the problem by passing ...
Bernanke signals Fed to maintain stimulus efforts
Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress Wednesday that the U.S. job market remains weak and that it is too soon for the Federal Reserve to slow its ...
House preserves its own budget as others face cuts
House lawmakers are moving to protect Capitol Hill's budget even as they're working to slash other programs like education, health research, water ...
House Republicans promote 20-week abortion ban
House Republican who oppose abortion promoted legislation Wednesday that would ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. These Republicans want to ...
Will Senate bid lure Rogers from his House seat?
Republican Rep. Mike Rogers has pulled off a rare feat in a bitterly divided Congress — a working, productive relationship with Democrats in ...
IRS official to take the 5th at House hearing
Summoned by Congress, a key figure in the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups plans to invoke her constitutional right against ...
Senate votes to make small cut to food stamps
The Senate voted Tuesday to keep a $400 million annual cut — or roughly a half of 1 percent — to the food stamp program as part of a major five-year ...
House passes bill on lying about military medals
People who falsely claim they have received a military medal in order to obtain money or government benefits could face up to a year in jail under ...
Obama agenda marches on despite controversies
Despite Democratic fears, predictions of the demise of President Barack Obama's agenda appear exaggerated after a week of cascading controversies, ...
Another round for the House on 'Obamacare'
One more time, with feeling! The Republican-led House voted yet again Thursday to repeal President Barack Obama's health care law, knowing full well ...
Deep divide in Congress over domestic food aid
The House and Senate Agriculture Committees laid the groundwork this week for reducing the size of the federal food stamp program, approving farm ...
House panel OKs farm bill with food stamp cuts
The House Agriculture Committee on Wednesday approved a sweeping farm bill that would trim the $80 billion-a-year food stamp program. The panel ...
A timeline of the IRS's scrutiny of the right
A look at events leading to the disclosure that the Internal Revenue Service placed conservative groups under special scrutiny for 18 months before ...
Petraeus email objected to Benghazi talking points
Then CIA-Director David Petraeus objected to the final talking points the Obama administration used after the deadly assault on a U.S. diplomatic post ...
IRS commissioner ousted over tea party targeting
Hurrying to check a growing controversy, President Barack Obama ousted the acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service late Wednesday amid an ...
Ex-SC Gov. Sanford reclaims House seat in comeback
Republican Mark Sanford, the former South Carolina governor whose extramarital affair derailed his political career, returned to Congress on Wednesday ...
Senate panel approves massive farm bill
The Senate Agriculture Committee on Tuesday approved a massive five-year farm bill that would cut spending while also creating new subsidies for ...
IRS chief: Agency lacked sensitivity in screenings
The IRS acting chief acknowledged Tuesday that the agency demonstrated "a lack of sensitivity" in its screenings of political groups seeking ...
Top IRS official didn't reveal tea party targeting
The IRS acting chief acknowledged Tuesday that the agency demonstrated "a lack of sensitivity" in its screenings of political groups seeking ...
Obama slams GOP focus on Benghazi as politics
House Republicans pushed ahead Monday with their investigation of the deadly assault on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, last year as ...
Filipino clans, celebrities dominate midterm polls
From Imelda Marcos to Manny Pacquiao, familiar names of Philippine political clans and celebrities dominated the ballots for Monday's congressional ...
AP Exclusive: IRS knew tea party targeted in 2011
Senior Internal Revenue Service officials knew agents were targeting tea party groups as early as 2011, according to a draft of an inspector general's ...
Senate OKs honor for Birmingham bombing victims
Four victims of a deadly Alabama church bombing at the height of the civil rights movement are now just a presidential signature away from receiving ...
Lawmakers, White House discuss sexual assault
Congressional efforts to combat sexual assault in the military secured the support of the Obama administration as senior White House officials met ...
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