Just as Congress enters the final stretch of the financial regulatory reform effort, one of the Treasury Department's leading liaisons to the Hill, Da...
Sen. Bob Corker, the Tennessee Republican who's been taking the lead in financial regulatory reform negotiations, said Monday that reports of an agree...
A debate on the Senate floor Monday over unemployment compensation crystallized, at least for a moment, the divide between the two parties in Washingt...
Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) reached out to fellow members of his Banking Committee on Monday to float the latest proposal for a compromise Consumer Fina...
Sen. Bob Casey, a centrist Democrat from Pennsylvania, has committed to voting for a public option if it's included as part of a package of health car...
Sen. Richard Shelby (Ala.), a key Republican negotiator on the Banking Committee, said that the idea of a Consumer Financial Protection Agency with in...
The Consumer Financial Protection Agency, a cornerstone of banking reform, won't go down without a floor flight. Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island, the t...
Sen. Ted Kaufman will vote for a public insurance option as part of a health care reconciliation package, the Delaware Democrat told HuffPost Tuesday ...
Will Ferrell, Fred Armisen, Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Dana Carvey and Darrell Hammond, the Saturday Night Live actors who have played every American ...
Rep. Barney Frank reacted angrily on Wednesday to a proposed bipartisan compromise on the Consumer Financial Protection Agency in the Senate. "That'...
With President Obama forging ahead on health care reform, the moment of truth is arriving for wavering Democrats who would prefer that the issue just ...
Tensions have been simmering between two top Republicans in the Banking Committee since the senior member, Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), backed out of...
Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) became the 35th senator to commit to voting for a public health insurance option if it comes to a vote on the floor under the...
Republicans like a politician who stands up for what he believes -- even if he believes the Republican Party is populated by a bunch of "knuckle-dragg...
President Obama began his meeting with leading House progressives by bringing in a letter from an Ohio woman who wrote him to say that her skyrocketin...
A House subcommittee approved a measure on Thursday to press major international financial institutions to completely cancel all debts owed by Haiti, ...
The lead story in Saturday's Washington Post, about the nuclear weapons decisions facing President Obama, runs longer than 1,300 words, but five a rea...
Chris Dodd became the 37th senator to commit to supporting the public insurance option as part of health care reform if the overhaul is moved through ...
The Treasury Department is vigorously opposed to a House-passed measure that would open the Federal Reserve to an audit by the Government Accountabili...
Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) pushed hard on Tuesday to back off her recent openness to reconciliation. Earlier this morning, Lincoln told the Ass...
Kathleen Sebelius plans to take the administration's argument for health care reform straight to the enemy this week. In a letter to top insurance lob...
For the first time since the program was enacted, an insurer is being ejected from the Medicare Part D program for denying medication to seniors and o...
The Consumer Financial Protection Agency would have a board of bank regulators over top of it that could object to and veto its proposed rules if Chai...
Three more Democratic senators said on Tuesday that they would either support the public option in a Senate floor vote or were heavily leaning that wa...
Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) became the 41st senator to say that he would back the public insurance option as part of a health care bill moved through reconci...
