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A group of House Democrats are stepping up demands for greater transparency from the Federal Reserve after reports that the Fed mishandled the bailout of insurance giant American International Group Inc.
House Democrats are looking at swelling deficits further, at least temporarily, on a jobs-producing bill in response to double-digit unemployment and a sense within their ranks that the party needs to do more to put people back to work.
House Democrats missed opportunities to improve the House-passed health care bill when they rejected Republican ideas to limit lawsuits and give states more flexibility to enact innovative changes, a GOP lawmaker said Saturday.
Majority Leader Harry Reid is considering a plan for higher payroll taxes on the upper-income earners to help finance health care legislation he intends to introduce in the Senate in the next several days, numerous Democratic officials said Wednesday.
President Barack Obama says now is the time for Congress to "answer the call of history" and approve legislation revamping the country's health care system.
President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, host a Veterans Day breakfast in the East Room before traveling to Arlington National Cemetery.
President Barack Obama is pushing back a trip to Capitol Hill aimed at discussing the proposed health care overhaul with lawmakers.
The AARP has officially endorsed the House Democratic health care bill, a major boost for the legislation two days before a historic vote.
In a coup for House Democrats, AARP will endorse sweeping health care overhaul legislation headed for a history-making floor vote, officials told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
The House voted on Wednesday to impose immediately tough new rules for credit card companies after voters complained of increased interest rates and steep new fees.
The health care overhaul bill produced by House Democrats would impose an array of new taxes, fees and government mandates on major players in the health industry, including insurers, doctors and drugs and medical devices makers.
The House Financial Services Committee has voted to give federal regulators more power and money to police major players in the stock market.
Clinton confronted by Pakistanis over Predator drone attacks — 'executions without trial'
Cheered by President Barack Obama, House Democrats rolled out landmark legislation Thursday to extend health care to tens of millions who lack coverage, impose sweeping new restrictions on the insurance industry and create a government-run option to compete with private insurers.
House Democrats are at an impasse over whether their remake of the nation's health care system would effectively allow federal funding of abortion.
House Democrats have reached a deal on Medicare payments that will secure critical support from heartland and Pacific Coast lawmakers for President Barack Obama's goal of revamping health care.
Early estimates from congressional budget umpires show that House Democrats are close to President Barack Obama's $900 billion target for health care legislation, a spokesman for Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday.
President Barack Obama won a modest victory Tuesday in his continuing effort to close the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba, allowing the government to continue to transfer detainees at the facility to the U.S. to be prosecuted.
Democrats launched a drive at both ends of the Capitol on Wednesday to strip the insurance industry of its decades-old exemption from federal antitrust laws, part of an increasingly bare-knuckled struggle over landmark health care legislation sought by President Barack Obama.
A coal group and two contractors knew about forged lobbying letters sent to three House Democrats before a vote on climate legislation, but the lawmakers were in the dark, documents obtained by a congressional committee show.
Millions of Medicare patients would be spared monthly premium increases next year under a bill passed by the House Thursday.
House Democrats are considering a tax on high-cost insurance plans to help pay for health care overhaul that tops President Barack Obama's domestic agenda.
House Democrats want the White House to clarify its tougher new position that illegal immigrants can't buy insurance with their own money from a government-created marketplace.
The Democratic Party Is More Diverse Than Leadership Likes To AdmitOver the past three election cycles, congressional Democrats have rebuilt an arithmetic majority. By the end of this year, they will demonstrate whether they constitute a governing majority. Now, as in the early 1990s, the acid test is health insurance reform.
Windfalls for Bankers, Resentments for the RestThere was a time in this country when a company reporting a few billion in earnings could count its money while basking in polite, reverent applause.
Obama Campaign Arm Doubles Down, Targets House Dems On Health CareIgnoring criticism - namely from Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid - that intra-party targeting was ineffective, Barack Obama's campaign arm is expanding its health care ad buy into the districts of key conservative House Democrats.
House Health Bill Unveiled - Democratic Divisions RemainHouse Democratic leaders released a sweeping health care overhaul Tuesday with a strong endorsement from President Barack Obama, but they acknowledged they still have much work to do to bridge intraparty differences and get a bill passed by August.
Congress Authorized CIA to Develop Secret Al Qaeda Plan, Former Official Says. Monday, July 13, 2009 Congress originally authorized the CIA to develop the secret counterterrorism program that is now drawing fierce criticism from House Democrats who say they were kept in the dark all along, a former senior intelligence official told FOX News on Monday.
House Democrats Plan To Pay For Obama's Healthcare Reforms By Creating A New Tax Bracket Above $280,000 ($350,000 for Couples)House Democrats will ask the wealthiest Americans to help pay for overhauling the health care system with a $550 billion income tax increase, the chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee said Friday.
House Democrats Plan to Introduce Greenhouse-Gas BillKey House Democrats will unveil legislation Tuesday that aims to cut the nation's greenhouse gas emissions 20 percent from 2005 levels by 2020, according to sources familiar with the bill who asked not to be identified.
HOUSE passes bill to tax 90% of AIG bonusesExcerpt: "The House passed a bill on Thursday that would impose punishing taxes on big employee bonuses from firms bailed out by taxpayers.Democrats pressed for the quick action. "The American people demand protection and that's what we're doing today," said Rep.
Is the Honeymoon Over For Barack Obama?. . .it strikes me that Obama's quest for cross-party comity and collaboration isn't what's been most damaging.
House "Stimulus" Bill Still Not "Stimulating" On the Infrastructure SideThe total package -- including tax cuts and direct aid to the poor and unemployed -- won significantly better marks for speed than the portion of the package devoted to highways, schools and other infrastructure projects, which are among the Democrats' top priorities.
Anti-Gay Alabama Attorney General Caught Being GayThis may come as a shock, but a prominent anti-homosexual Republican attorney general has apparently been caught having homosexual sex intercourse with his homosexual gay male assistant. Bonus: The dude's wife caught him, in their bed.
House Democrats Call for Nationalization of US RefineriesRep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY), member of the House Appropriations Committee and one of the most-ardent opponents of off-shore drilling (at 1115 said): We (the government) should own the refineries. Then we can control how much gets out into the market.
Trade Fight: Edwards is Right, Obama's Wrong, Clinton's UselessThe Peru Free Trade Agreement fight that is coming to a head in Congress pits George Bush and Nancy Pelosi against the workers of the United States and Peru.
Headlines we love: Partisan gamesmanship likely behind House vote on impeachmentThe impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney was the last thing that House Democratic leaders wanted to confront Tuesday, even though a determined band of anti-war House Democrats was eager to force the issue.
Impeachment fuse is briefly lightedWASHINGTON -- House Democrats on Tuesday beat back a Republican attempt to force them to vote on a divisive resolution to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney for "fabricating a threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction" to justify the war in Iraq.
Dems On the Rampage, Dennis On a TearFrom the article: "As we close in on the end of the first session of the 110th Congress, the stunning paucity of legislation makes this not just the majority that couldn't shoot straight -- it's the majority than cannot even shoot crooked."
Our view on cleaning up Congress: Lawmakers still find ways to preserve their perks On Capitol Hill these days, a shrinking ration of perks has left members of Congress grasping to hang onto every lingering sliver of special treatment they can find — whether it's a free trip to PalmBeach or a way to slip dubious spending projects into the budget.
House Democrats Set For Vote on New Version Of Children's HealthJust one week after failing to override President Bush's veto, House Democrats will put a new version of their $35 billion expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program to a vote today, hoping that minor changes will win enough Republicans to beat Bush this round.
Memo to Democrats: We're Not in 2006 AnymoreSorry, Democrats... things just aren't going your way right now.
A tough week for House Speaker Nancy PelosiHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi found herself in a tight spot this week over her support for a resolution condemning the Ottoman Turks' slaughter of Armenians more than 90 years ago.
Armenian Genocide: Stirring up the past, jeopardising the future The most extraordinary spectacle of the past week has been the apparent desire of the US Congress to pronounce as genocide the 1915 massacre of Armenians by Turks, even though there is nothing more provocative to Turkey, and no worse time at which to do it.
Timing of genocide resolution questioned - CNN.comWASHINGTON (CNN) -- With tensions rising between the United States and Turkey over a resolution that labels the World War I-era massacre of Armenians by Turkish forces "genocide," many are asking why the House is debating the resolution now.
Dems Muscle Through Surveillance BillHouse Democrats pushed their government eavesdropping bill through two committees Tuesday with only minor changes, setting the stage for a confrontation with the Bush administration.
First Gonzales, Then Bush: Impeachment Should Be A Serious Option - With An Intermediary StepIn American politics, brave actions are politically unthinkable until someone thinks to act on them. Then public opinion can turn, sometimes with surprising speed.
Reform FISA Now: By Rep. Peter HoekstraWhenever the issue of foreign surveillance is discussed in Washington, Democrats immediately invoke "Big Brother" to scare people.
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