In his State of the Union address last week, President Obama issued the GOP a challenge. "If the Republican leadership is going to insist that 60 vot...
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), the head of the Republican Senate campaign operation, said Tuesday that the GOP is working to head off the danger of the T...
Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Tuesday that she was getting calls from senators urging her to bring the public option back into the debate or to introdu...
Amid the wreckage of the health care debate, some rescue workers have been searching for small pieces that could be salvaged. On Tuesday, House Speake...
House Democrats are forming a Citizens United task force to decide on the best set of legislative push back against the Supreme Court decision that up...
The Senate will vote on a jobs package on Monday, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) told reporters Thursday morning. The vote could be incoming Se...
Democrats reacted possessively on Thursday to Republican Minority Leader John Boehner's effort to persuade JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon that the fin...
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid warned Republicans Thursday that if they use the arrival of Scott Brown as an opportunity to filibuster every Democr...
A bipartisan pair of House lawmakers have a response to the Citizens United Supreme Court decision that allows unlimited corporate money to flow into ...
An online effort has quietly raised nearly $90,000 in the past few days to reward three freshman House Democrats for organizing an effort to put the p...
The GOP may be the party of no -- but when it comes to individual Republican lawmakers taking credit for federally-funded projects in their home state...
President Obama's health care reform outreach to congressional Republicans got off to a bumpy start on Monday morning, when Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif...
Showing just how far his previous economic ideology has fallen from grace, White House senior economics adviser Larry Summers went on to CNBC Tuesday ...
Senate Republicans made a persuasive case for abolishing or reforming the filibuster on Tuesday night when they blocked a routine nomination to the Na...
Senate negotiators are at an impasse over the Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Richard Shelby, the ranking Republican on the Senate Banking Commi...
The awarding of high-speed rail money by the federal government in February turned into a test of which state officials could transcend partisan bicke...
After President Obama upbraided the Supreme Court during his State of the Union address, Justice Sam Alito, whose swing vote overturned a century of p...
MoveOn.org is letting President Obama know that it does begrudge the multimillion-dollar bonuses being paid to Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein and a...
The Senate Finance Committee released on Thursday a bipartisan draft of a proposed jobs bill, which includes business tax breaks, an extension of subs...
The Senate's bipartisan jobs package, which had robust support from the White House and the GOP, but was packed with corporate giveaways, lasted less ...
Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.), who rarely gets into battles he thinks he can't win, said on Friday that he'll push to include a windfall bonus tax as an amend...
The GOP is outraged that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) spiked the bipartisan jobs bill unveiled on Thursday, dropping some of its major p...
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) sobbed on the Senate floor Thursday, lamenting that his right-hand man, Kyle Simmons, was leaving his s...
The abrupt retirement of Evan Bayh (D-Ind.) from the Senate leaves Democrats with roughly 24 hours to get a replacement candidate on the primary ballo...
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with the director general of the Al Jazeera Network, Wadah Khanfar, and the network's senior editorial staff wh...
