"The whole world is watching this hearing, it is the first hearing on this issue. The whole point of a society is to create and run a government to ma...

WASHINGTON -- Beginning on Jan. 1, people who lose their home to foreclosure will be required to pay federal taxes on any unpaid mortgage the bank can...

WASHINGTON -- If the estate tax is restored to a level similar to its rate before the Bush-era tax cuts went into effect, the federal government could...

WASHINGTON -- Dozens of the House Republicans who voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act on Wednesday have young adult children who are eligible to s...

WASHINGTON -- The first ever bipartisan congressional HIV/AIDS caucus officially launched on Thursday, 30 years after the human immunodeficiency virus...

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) says Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) has her work cut out for her. When asked about Wasserman's d...

After a month of passionate public outcry against his union-busting strategy, Governor Walker has an opportunity to demonstrate his ability to govern with reason and moderation.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A Palm Springs man was arrested on Wednesday on charges of threatening in phone messages to kill U.S. Congressman Jim Mc...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's role confirms our government is not operating as a democracy ruled by the will of the majority, but as a strangled entity tightly in the grasp of the minority and its take-no-prisoners leader.

Why are Democrats who were willing to fight Bush crumbling in front of Obama? He claims to be the leader of the party, but honestly who cares? If he is doing the exact opposite of what Democrats claim to stand for, why does it matter what he calls himself?

Democratic Congressman Jim McDermott (D-Wash) called President Obama's tax cut deal "unfair" on Sunday, during an appearance with fellow Congressman E...

A disaster is looming; I just hope that the hardest-hit victims of the Great Recession can withstand the wave. The only force strong enough to resist this wave of bad news for the unemployed is the American people.

Unemployment insurance for the long-term jobless faces an uncertain path through Congress, which will have just two weeks when it reconvenes on Nov. 1...

A day without the Democrats will take us back to the financial chaos of the 1930s, forever destroying what little security middle class families still enjoy.

Two bills recently introduced in Congress take on the issue of employee misclassification which puts companies that properly classify their workers at...

Six months after Obama signed the Affordable Care Act, the sky is still there, grandma hasn't been euthanized, and there are no death panels. Today, just six months after becoming law, even more benefits of reform take effect.

On this week's Same Sex Sunday, Joe Mirabella started off the episode with an interview of Congressmen Jim McDermott (D-WA).

The LGBT and progressive communities should not call for boycotts unless they intend to follow through with them.

The child welfare system must respond to constant change within our complex society, and policymakers continually must seek solutions that offer improved outcomes for children.