Senate Republicans are determined to prevent the creation of an independent Consumer Financial Protection Agency because they consider it as threateni...
A new breed of congressional Democrat was swept into office in 1974, less than seven months after Richard Nixon's resignation. The Watergate Babies, a...
House Democrats met Thursday to devise a negotiating strategy as the two chambers begin to hash out differences between their respective health care b...
On Thursday evening, a roomful of people more accustomed to fighting each other met to unite against a common enemy: Wall Street. The forces that are...
Between 11 and 15 million mortgages are currently underwater, meaning the home is worth less than the amount owed on it. For many people in that situa...
The fight in the Senate Banking Committee over the creation of a new agency dedicated to consumer financial protection has shifted from whether it sho...
Since marijuana was criminalized more than 70 years ago, no panel of federal or state lawmakers has ever voted to reverse the ban and legalize it. Tha...
Speaker Nancy Pelosi pushed the House health care position forward on Tuesday night, insisting that a national health insurance exchange is "essential...
As members of Congress begin to report their fourth-quarter fundraising totals, here's a number that will pop a few eyes: $850,000. That's the amount...
Bipartisanship is alive on Capitol Hill -- House Democrats and Republicans came together Tuesday morning to join forces against a common, longstanding...
A new survey of the Afghan people is being touted as evidence that hearts and minds may, in fact, be warming to the U.S.'s military presence, which is...
A bipartisan foursome in the House of Representatives introduced a bill on Wednesday that would require the head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency...
Leaders of the labor movement announced Thursday afternoon that they have reached a compromise agreement with the White House and congressional leader...
Civilian deaths in Afghanistan climbed in 2009 to their highest number since the fall of the Taliban, the United Nations says in a recent report. The...
The blame game is fully underway. A top pollster to Democratic Senate candidate Martha Coakley told HuffPost on Tuesday that the White House, in attem...
Scott Brown's Senate victory should not put health care reform on hold, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) told reporters after a caucus meeting Tuesday. ...
With all the talk about "angry independents" deciding the special election in Massachusetts Tuesday night, the inclination among establishment Washing...
Barney Frank shocked his Democratic Party Tuesday night by jumping out shortly after the polls closed in Massachusetts and calling for the party not t...
Members of Congress considering moving their money from major financial institutions to community banks have some of the same concerns ordinary custom...
Opposition to the reconfirmation of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is growing in the Senate in the wake of a Republican Scott Brown's victory, ...
A House-passed provision to open up the Federal Reserve to an audit by the Government Accountability Office is unlikely to be included in the Senate r...
Updated below with comments from Sen. McCain Those Democrats who hope to fight back against a Supreme Court decision that allows unlimited corporat...
A House Democrat from Massachusetts who finished second in the Senate primary against Martha Coakley is lashing out at the White House for playing "fo...
Rolling out his new, more aggressive approach to Wall Street, President Obama turned to some advisers who hadn't been seen much in the past year. Stan...
Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd opposes including a provision to audit the Federal Reserve in the Senate's regulatory reform package, the...
