Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid ramped up the pressure on the White House and the military to repeal its "don't ask, don't tell" policy with a direc...
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke surprised members of both parties Thursday when he told a House panel that he believed transparency alone was no...
The Senate Finance Committee narrowly passed an amendment Thursday from Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) that moves the conservative panel as close as it...
Doctors, administrators, patients and other Washington state residents responded to a Huffington Post request Thursday for first-hand stories about th...
Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) said Tuesday that she intends to vote for the Senate Finance Committee's health care reform package. She cautioned that h...
UPDATE: Scroll down for a video of the arrests. A group of civilly-disobedient hemp farmers and business leaders were arrested Tuesday morning while ...
Sixty-four years ago, President Harry Truman stood before a joint session of Congress and called on the body "to assure the right to adequate medical ...
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan pushed back against her fellow Democrat, Rep. Melissa Bean (D-Ill.), on Wednesday, sending a letter (PDF) oppos...
JPMorgan Chase: $3.6 billion in profits in the last quarter. Goldman Sachs: $3.03 billion. Analysts expect a string of sky-high profit announcements t...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) increased Democratic pressure on the health insurance industry Thursday, telling reporters that there is "tremen...
After the Huffington Post reported that eight states still allow insurance companies to treat domestic violence as a precondition, leaders from three ...
When Stan Greenberg and fellow Democratic researchers launched a study of the conservative Republican world's reaction to President Obama, he figured ...
The battle against the health insurance industry is steadily intensifying. House Democrats have formally scheduled a vote to revoke the industry's che...
Nicole Kidman is headed to Congress, where she plans to testify on domestic violence as an international concern, Rep. Bill Delahunt (D-Mass.) said Mo...
In a major defeat for Wall Street banks, Rep. Melissa Bean (D-Ill.) has decided to withdraw an amendment that divided Democrats as they seek to impose...
When thirty Republicans lined up against an amendment that would have required defense contractors to allow their employees access to U.S. courts in c...
President Obama should lobby individual Senate Democrats to make sure they don't join Republicans in filibustering health care reform, Sen. Bernie San...
A bipartisan Senate pair introduced a bill to audit the Federal Reserve's emergency lending programs on Tuesday. The Federal Reserve Accountability Ac...
Nancy Pelosi is ready to rumble. The House Speaker told her Democratic caucus Tuesday night that she plans to bring a health care reform bill with a r...
The robust public option is eight votes short of the 218 it needs to pass the House, Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.) tells HuffPost. Grijalva, as co-cha...
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Wednesday that the House not only plans to extend an $8,000 first-time home-buyer's tax credit -- it may be broad...
The directors of the Federal Reserve regional banks are selected by the very banks that the Fed is supposed to regulate. It's a bizarre entanglement o...
A key conservative Democrat told reporters Thursday that he was "open to a public option" as part of the final health care reform package. Sen. Mark P...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) ramped up the pressure on wavering Democrats Friday morning, calling on them to state in front of their colleagu...
The public option lives. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announced Monday that the bill he will bring to the Senate floor will include a p...
