As a massive government spending bill aimed at turning the economy around winds its way through Congress, Republicans continue to snipe at it for incl...
Rep. Barney Frank plans to call the heads of major bailed-out banks to testify before his committee next week, two aides to the House Financial Servic...
More money to battle STDs. Recovery.gov stripped out. A nod to the Patriot Act. Huffington Post readers have taken a preliminary look at the Senate st...
Sen. Kent Conrad, chairman of the Budget Committee, warned Monday that the financial sector would need "hundreds of billions more" in federal dollars ...
House Republicans are pushing their Senate colleagues to stand unanimously against President Obama's stimulus package, as they themselves did in the l...
House Democrats brandished a Gallup poll out Tuesday showing that 75 percent of Americans want Congress to pass some version of President's Obama's st...
The Senate is prepared for one of its most important votes in decades this weekend, whether to approve President Obama's economic stimulus package. Re...
Reading even a single page of a Senate bill is often no simple task, with legislative-ese obscuring the purpose behind the language. Reading 736 pages...
The investigator in charge of overseeing the expenditure of TARP funds -- money for banks to stabilize the financial industry -- released his first re...
Sen. Ben Nelson, a centrist Democrat from Nebraska, is backing off of cuts he recently proposed to the economic stimulus package. A discussion draft ...
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said on the Senate floor Thursday evening that negotiators would work through the night to craft a stimulus compromi...
Wall Street bankers, with their $18 billion in bonuses, private jets and gaudy conferences, are causing headaches for the GOP. President Obama has pr...
A bipartisan group of sixteen members of Congress sent a letter Thursday to Attorney General Eric Holder urging him to allow the University of Massach...
Senators from both parties have reached a deal to advance President Barack Obama's economic recovery plan through the Senate. Montana Democrat Max Bau...
Michael Phelps might feel like the entire world is coming after him for taking the bong hit seen around world. His sponsor Kellogg Co. is dropping him...
The Kellogg Company may have thought it was making the smart public-relations play by announcing it was not renewing its contract with Michael Phelps,...
UPDATE - February 12: The text of the House/Senate conference report of the stimulus package has been posted online. Here are the links: Text of ...
There's a hurricane coming. Meteorologists aren't sure what category it will be but know it will be the worst in generations. There's a warehouse full...
The stimulus package stumbling through Congress may have taken a beating on cable and in the national press, but the story's been much different outsi...
When House Republicans voted unanimously against President Obama's stimulus package, Democrats had their eyes on a select group: Obama's Republicans. ...
As President Obama flew to Elkhart, Indiana to sell his stimulus package, Huffington Post readers were looking through the Senate's final version of t...
Administration officials were greeted with sarcasm and laughter Monday night when they briefed lawmakers and congressional staff on Treasury Secretary...
The fierce populist streak that has been coursing through America will soon have an official voice on Capitol Hill: the Populist Caucus. Rep. Bruce B...
The financial plan announced today by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner appears to have accomplished, through a backdoor path, one of the top priori...
It's been fourteen years since Democrats controlled both Congress and the White House. A few weeks after inauguration, some folks are out of patience...
