Committee examining $500 million in IRS contracts
The House Oversight Committee is investigating whether a personal relationship between an Internal Revenue Service employee and the owner of a ...
Republicans offer deal on American Indian courts
Several House Republicans on Wednesday proposed legislation on Native American courts that could lay the groundwork for a compromise on the stalled ...

House votes to extend pay freeze for fed workers
The House voted Friday to extend a pay freeze for federal workers, already in effect for more than two years, for another nine months.

Senate approves anti-violence against women act
By a robust bipartisan majority, the Senate voted Tuesday to renew the Violence Against Women Act with new assurances that gays and lesbians, ...
Senate poised to renew Violence Against Women Act
Senators tussled Thursday over whether Indian authorities should be able to prosecute non-Indians in domestic abuse cases, an issue that has delayed ...

No more Saturday mail? Postal Service plans cuts
We could soon be seeing the end of Saturday mail delivery. The Postal Service has announced plans to cut back to five-day-a-week deliveries for ...

Goodbye Saturday mail? Postal Service plans cuts
Saturday mail may soon go the way of the Pony Express and penny postcards. The Postal Service said Wednesday that it plans to cut back to ...

Senate tries again to move anti-violence bill
Senate Democrats, bolstered by Republican support, on Monday launched a new attempt to broaden a law protecting women from domestic abuse by expanding ...

2 NFL seasons since agreement, still no HGH tests
Baltimore Ravens defensive end Arthur Jones is among those NFL players who want the league and the union to finally agree on a way to do blood testing ...
AP Exclusive: possible USAID bid rigging probed
The Justice Department is conducting an investigation into possible contract rigging by the general counsel at the government agency that distributes ...

Analysis: Cliff deal is another pain-free punt
Congress' hectic resolution of the "fiscal cliff" crisis is the latest in a long series of decisions by lawmakers and the White House to do less than ...
No ethics breaches found in Countrywide VIP loans
The House Ethics Committee said Thursday it found no violations among House members whose mortgage loans went through the VIP section of the former ...

Lawmaker: NFL players 'trying to back out' on HGH
Accusing the NFL players' union of "trying to back out" of an August 2011 agreement to start checking for human growth hormone, a congressman worried ...
Congress looks into science of HGH test for NFL
Nearly two full seasons since signing a labor deal that paved the way for HGH testing in the NFL, the league and the players' union still haven't ...