Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said on Tuesday that the House would return to the debate over COBRA subsidies and aid to state governments when Congr...

During his State of the Union address earlier this year, President Obama gave a major boost to the campaign to repeal the military's Don't Ask, Don't ...

Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) has played an outsize role in the primary contest between Blue Dog Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.) and progressive challenger...

President Obama pressed Congress to extend COBRA subsidies on Tuesday, as the Senate considers a House measure that drops the health insurance assista...

In a dogfight being fought largely under the radar, Wall Street is outmaneuvering Big Oil in the Senate. Democrats, spooked about deficit spending a...

Lisa Murkowski pushed back against the White House on Wednesday on the eve of a Senate debate and vote on her resolution to block the Environmental Pr...

Lucia Graves contributed to this report. How close is the Senate to a bipartisan climate deal? Here's the Democrats' best hope for compromise -- Lind...

The House and Senate have reached "conceptual agreement" on strengthening what's known as the Volcker Rule in the Wall Street reform bill, House Finan...

Leading Democratic senators tasked Joe Lieberman on Thursday with finding a compromise measure that would satisfy a diverse caucus split between doing...

Republican communication strategists in Washington and Louisiana are thrilled at the press coverage of the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, according t...

Al Franken is battling Barney Frank to save the life of a credit rating agency amendment that the freshman Minnesota Democrat was able to include in t...

Sharron Angle plans to lunch on Tuesday with the group of Republican senators whom she hopes to join next year. To mark the occasion, the Nevada Democ...

House members of the financial reform conference committee are attempting to strip a Senate proposal to revamp the governance of the Federal Reserve b...

John Campbell is, apparently, a straight shooter. Instead of ducking criticism for simultaneously collecting rent from car dealerships while pushing t...

House Republican leadership threatened to strip Rep. Joe Barton's seniority on the Energy and Commerce Committee if the Texas Republican didn't immedi...