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  • After breach, House plans new cybersecurity training

    By Paul Kane House leaders have asked the chamber's security officials to implement a new cybersecurity training regimen for aides and take additional measures to protect sensitive information from potential hackers. Daniel P. Beard, the House's chief administrative officer, finished a six-week review, prompted by The Washington Post's disclosure of [...]
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    Posted: December 15, 2009, 7:20pm EST

  • House Democrats push new comprehensive immigration bill

    By Ben Pershing A broad cross-section of House Democrats unveiled a new comprehensive immigration reform bill Tuesday, laying down an early marker for what they hope will be a major 2010 debate. More than 80 co-sponsors have already signed on to the legislation, which is authored by Rep. Luis Gutierrez [...]
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    Posted: December 15, 2009, 4:42pm EST

  • Prospects for GOP support of Senate health care bill are dwindling

    By Shailagh Murray As Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid works to unite his 60-member Democratic caucus in support for health-care reform, his prospects for Republican converts appear to be dwindling. Just two GOP senators are considered gettable by Reid and White House officials, as Democrats race to wrap up action [...]
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    Posted: December 15, 2009, 3:18pm EST

  • Hoyer sketches out Congressional pre-Christmas crunch

    By Ben Pershing UPDATE 2:48 PM: At a press conference to unveil their job-creation package, House Democratic leaders said they planned (House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said it was his "hope") to complete all their remaining work for the year Wednesday. That would mean passing the defense spending bill, [...]
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    Posted: December 15, 2009, 12:29pm EST

  • House Democrats scrap long-term increase in debt ceiling, jobs package

    By Paul Kane House Democratic leaders, bowing to opposition from their party's deficit hawks, have decided to move the final must-pass piece of legislation of the year without a long-term increase to the national debt and a large boost in infrastructure funding that was considered a jobs bill. Majority Leader [...]
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    Posted: December 14, 2009, 8:10pm EST

  • Senate clears $447B omnibus measure

    Updated 4:20 p.m. By Ben Pershing The Senate approved a $447 billion omnibus bill Sunday, clearing a package of six appropriations bills for President Obama's signature. The measure, which passed the House last week, was approved by the Senate, 57 to 35. The vote was mostly along party lines -- [...]
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    Posted: December 13, 2009, 3:10pm EST

  • Report: in Senate plan, insufficient funding for those with preexisting conditions

    By David S. Hilzenrath If you have a preexisting medical condition, you could still have insurance problems under the health-care reform proposals taking shape in Congress. It was already clear that, under the Senate bill, insurers would not be prohibited from using your health status against you until 2014. In [...]
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    Posted: December 13, 2009, 7:00am EST

  • Senate clears way for passage of spending bill

    By Paul Kane In a surprisingly suspenseful vote Saturday, the Senate cleared a key parliamentary hurdle on a massive spending bill for almost half the federal government, which will provide tens of billions of dollars in increased funding for a host of federal agencies and the District of Columbia. On [...]
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    Posted: December 12, 2009, 12:35pm EST

  • House likely to add jobs bill to defense spending legislation

    By Ben Pershing House Democrats are increasingly likely to move a jobs bill next week, firming up the details of a package that would cost roughly $70 billion and include spending for infrastructure projects and benefits for the poor and unemployed. The jobs package would move as an attachment to [...]
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    Posted: December 11, 2009, 4:23pm EST

  • House rejects using TARP funds for debt payments instead of jobs

    By Perry Bacon Jr. The House on Friday voted down a GOP-lead effort to prevent leftover funds from last year's financial sector bailout from being used for job creation, an approach the Obama administration and congressional Democrats have signaled they favor. Before Congress voted to approve a bill that will [...]
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    Posted: December 11, 2009, 4:03pm EST

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    Posted: December 11, 2009, 4:03pm EST

  • Hoyer needles Fox News Channel

    By Ben Pershing Add House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) to the list of top Democrats taking shots at Fox News Channel. Hoyer may not have gone quite as far in his criticism as the White House, which has suggested FNC is not "a legitimate news organization." But he still [...]
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    Posted: December 11, 2009, 12:28pm EST

  • Pelosi plays down differences with Senate in health-care debate

    By Shailagh Murray House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a champion of the public insurance option, pointedly declined Thursday to criticize a pending Senate agreement to drop the idea as Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (Nev.) seeks to unite divided Democrats in his chamber behind health-care reform. The health-care debate is temporarily [...]
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    Posted: December 10, 2009, 6:08pm EST

  • House to move massive spending bill, D.C. budget

    Updated 4:13 p.m. By Ben Pershing The House voted Thursday to approve a half-dozen spending bills grouped into one massive package, as the chamber races to complete its remaining work before adjourning for the year. The $447 billion measure, which combines six separate appropriations bills, passed 221-202, with 28 Democrats [...]
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    Posted: December 10, 2009, 11:22am EST

  • Senate rejects Nelson amendment on abortion

    By Shailagh Murray The Senate narrowly rejected an amendment that would have restricted abortion coverage in the pending health-care bill, leaving in question whether Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) has the 60 votes needed to move the bill toward final passage. The measure, which failed 54-45, addressed the scope of [...]
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    Posted: December 08, 2009, 5:37pm EST

  • Progress on public-option alternatives, but abortion amendment expected to fail

    By Shailagh Murray Senate Democratic negotiators said they had made significant progress in identifying alternative coverage options to replace a government insurance plan that liberals have fought to retain as part of health-care reform, but moderates have refused to support. Later Tuesday, the chamber is expected to vote on another [...]
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    Posted: December 08, 2009, 2:53pm EST

  • Reid faces criticism after comparing health-care reform opponents to civil rights opponents

    By Paul Kane Senior Republicans lit into Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) Monday after he likened GOP opponents of proposed health-care legislation to those who opposed abolishing slavery, fought against a woman's right to vote and blocked civil rights laws 50 years ago. In a prepared floor speech [...]
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    Posted: December 07, 2009, 6:50pm EST

  • Obama urges Democrats to pull together on health bill

    By Lori Montgomery Heading into a make-or-break week for his signature domestic initiative, President Barack Obama made a rare Sunday visit to the Capitol to urge a fractious Senate Democratic caucus to pull together to pass landmark legislation overhauling the nation's health care system. Obama made no mention of a [...]
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    Posted: December 06, 2009, 4:40pm EST

  • Senate votes to keep Medicare cuts

    By Lori Montgomery The Senate voted Thursday to keep nearly $500 billion in Medicare cuts in its overhaul of the health care system, protecting the bill's major source of financing against a Republican attack. On a vote of 58 to 42, the Senate rejected a proposal by Sen. John McCain [...]
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    Posted: December 03, 2009, 4:35pm EST

  • House votes to make current estate tax permanent

    By Ben Pershing The House approved Thursday a measure making the current estate tax rate permanent, overcoming the objections of an unusual coalition of liberal and conservative critics. The bill passed, 225 to 200, with 26 Democrats joining all Republicans present to vote no. It would make permanent the current [...]
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    Posted: December 03, 2009, 2:42pm EST

  • Pelosi rejects tax proposal to pay for Afghan war

    By Paul Kane and Ben Pershing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) scuttled the proposed "war tax" to finance the increased troop deployment to Afghanistan, telling reporters Thursday that she would oppose the idea from her closest allies in the Capitol. Pelosi, in her weekly press briefing, announced she would not [...]
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    Posted: December 03, 2009, 2:00pm EST

  • Amid anxiety, jobs bill takes shape on the Hill

    By Ben Pershing The White House jobs summit opens today amid concerns on Capitol Hill that the administration has not done enough to address unemployment and uncertainty over how and when Congress can deliver a jobs bill to the president's desk. "There's a jobs summit, but nobody in my district" [...]
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    Posted: December 03, 2009, 9:09am EST

  • Pelosi wants entire House to get a war briefing

    By Paul Kane Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has requested that every House member receive a top-level briefing on President Obama's request for 30,000 additional troops in Afghanistan, according to a senior aide -- an unusual move demonstrating the high stakes of the war debate. Obama dispatched Secretary of State Hillary [...]
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    Posted: December 02, 2009, 5:29pm EST

  • Senate health-care debate stalls in dispute over amendments

    By Shailagh Murray The Senate health-care debate has stalled on the floor as Democrats blame Republicans for blocking votes on the first two amendments. Still pending as of mid-afternoon Wednesday was a bipartisan proposal to increase preventive health care for women and a Republican bid to strip out significant Medicare [...]
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    Posted: December 02, 2009, 4:11pm EST

  • Anti-health reform group spends $1 million on ads

    By Ben Pershing As the Senate continues its debate over health-care legislation, a grass-roots conservative group is launching a $1 million ad campaign to persuade key senators to oppose the reform measure. Keeping Small Business Healthy, a project run by the advocacy group Institute for Liberty, will begin airing ads [...]
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    Posted: December 02, 2009, 6:00am EST

  • Obama's Afghan plan draws praise from Rep. Joe "You Lie" Wilson

    By Paul Kane In a sign of the odd couplings created by the politics surrounding the Afghan war, President Obama received a ringing endorsement Tuesday from Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) for his proposal to send tens of thousands of additional troops to the battlefield. Three months after shouting "you lie" [...]
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    Posted: December 01, 2009, 4:38pm EST

  • Lawmakers split over Obama's troop plan for Afghanistan

    By Paul Kane President Obama won endorsements Tuesday from leading congressional hawks for his proposal to send 30,000 additional troops into Afghanistan, but antiwar liberals denounced the policy and vowed to fight the effort when the war-funding legislation arrives on Capitol Hill. Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Joseph I. Lieberman [...]
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    Posted: December 01, 2009, 3:45pm EST

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    Posted: December 01, 2009, 3:45pm EST

  • House expenses go online

    By Ben Pershing Forty-five years after Congress first began publishing its expenditures, the House took another step into the modern age Monday by putting those numbers somewhere the public can actually find them -- the Internet. After years of lobbying by watchdog groups and other critics, the House has finally [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 2:42pm EST

  • CBO: Senate health plan will increase some premiums -- and expand coverage

    Updated 3:40 p.m. By Lori Montgomery The Senate's plan to overhaul the health insurance system would increase premiums in the individual market, but purchasers would get better coverage than under current law and six in 10 would see their premium payments reduced by new federal subsidies, congressional budget analysts said' [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 1:00pm EST

  • McChrystal tells lawmakers Obama engaged in "thoughtful process" on request for more troops

    By Paul Kane Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, told a group of key congressmen Thursday that President Obama was engaged in a "thoughtful process" of deciding on his request for additional troops in the region. Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), in a telephone interview from Afghanistan, [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 2:18pm EST

  • Pelosi: Democrats facing voter 'unrest' over war spending, troop increase

    By Paul Kane House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Tuesday that Democrats face "serious unrest" over President Obama's possible expansion of tens of thousands of additional troops to Afghanistan. Pelosi, in a conference call with economists, said House Democrats were concerned about the "opportunity costs" of steering billions of dollars [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 5:32pm EST

  • Hoffman concedes a 2nd time in NY House race

    By Valerie Bauman, Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. -- The Conservative Party candidate conceded a race in upstate New York for a U.S. House of Representatives seat for the second time Tuesday, saying he doesn't have enough votes. Last week, Doug Hoffman withdrew his election night concession to Democratic Rep. Bill' [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 5:23pm EST

  • Landrieu to vote yes on key health-care test

    By Paul Kane Leaving Democrats one vote short with hours to go, Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) declared Saturday she will support a key procedural step to advance President Obama's health-care legislation. In a Senate floor speech just before 1 p.m., Landrieu said she would support the motion to begin debate [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 1:11pm EST

  • Senate launches health-care debate, with 2 Democrats undecided

    By Paul Kane In a rare Saturday session, the Senate launched the final hours of debate leading up to a nighttime vote that serves as a critical early test for President Obama's health-care proposal. Shaping up as a cliffhanger, all but two of the 60 senators in the Democratic caucus [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 10:42am EST

  • Neb.'s Nelson agrees to health debate, leaving two senators undecided

    By Shailagh Murray and Lori Montgomery Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska, one of three centrist Democrats who had been undecided on Saturday's motion to debate the Senate health-care bill, has announced he will vote to bring the measure to the floor. "The Senate should start trying to fix a health" [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 3:25pm EST

  • Senate ethics committee admonishes Burris

    Updated 12:33 p.m. By Paul Kane Sen. Roland W. Burris (D-Ill.) has been admonished by the Senate ethics committee for his public comments about his appointment last December to the body. In a three-page "public letter of qualified admonition" issued Friday, the committee formally reprimanded Burris for statements -- some [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:30am EST

  • Calling election stolen, Hoffman rescinds concession in New York

    Doug Hoffman's campaign site on Nov. 19, 2009. (Screencapture by John Amick/The Washington Post) Updated 7:14 p.m. By Garance Franke-Ruta For the second time this week, Conservative Party congressional candidate Douglas L. Hoffman sought to rescind his concession in the special election in New York's 23rd district, telling supporters that [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 2:26pm EST

  • Fort Hood hearing focuses on homegrown threats, 'political correctness'

    Updated 12:57 p.m. By Ben Pershing A Senate committee on Thursday morning launched the first public hearing into the Fort Hood shooting attack with a focus on the perils of homegrown extremism and "political correctness" and with partial cooperation from the Obama administration. The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 12:13pm EST

  • Today on the Hill

    The Senate convenes at 9:30 a.m. ET. Following morning business, the Senate will resume post-cloture debate on the nomination of David Hamilton to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the Seventh Circuit. The Senate also reached an agreement to consider S.1963, Veterans Health Care initiatives bill upon disposition of the Hamilton [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 8:24am EST

  • House shifts focus to 'jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs'

    By Lori Montgomery Now that they've finished their health-care bill, House leaders are turning their attention to the soaring unemployment rate. But don't look for another economic stimulus package. This time, House leaders said, they want to put together a "jobs bill." "It's jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs," Rep. John B. [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 12:47pm EST

  • Today on the Hill

    The Senate convenes at 10:00 a.m. ET. Following morning business, the Senate will resume consideration of H.R. 3082, Military Construction/VA Appropriations. The Senate will recess from 12:30 until 2:15 to allow for the weekly caucus luncheons. At 2:15, the Senate will proceed to vote in relation to the Inhofe amendment [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 8:23am EST

  • White House won't provide witnesses for Fort Hood hearing

    By Ben Pershing The first public congressional hearing on the Fort Hood attack will not include testimony from any current federal law enforcement, military or intelligence officials because the Obama administration "declined to provide any" such witnesses, according to a Senate committee source. The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 6:03pm EST

  • Abortion-rights backers join health-care ad fray

    By Ben Pershing Supporters of abortion rights have jumped into the advertising fray over health-care legislation, hoping to sway the Senate as that chamber inches toward voting on a reform bill. The Center for Reproductive Rights is launching a television ad Tuesday aimed at convincing Congress not to enact the [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 3:45pm EST

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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 3:45pm EST

  • Reid Looking at Medicare Tax Hike on Well-to-Do Couples

    By Lori Montgomery Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid, days away from unveiling the Senate's version of health reform legislation, is considering a new tax on families earning more than $250,000 a year to help finance the package, Democrats said Thursday. Reid (D-Nev.) is looking at raising the Medicare payroll [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 6:53pm EST

  • Result of N.Y. special election still unofficial, even with one candidate now in Congress

    By Garance Franke-Ruta More than a week after a special election in New York's 23rd Congressional District, Democrat Bill Owens has already been sworn into Congress and has already cast a critical vote in helping the House pass the health-care reform bill. Nevertheless, that Upstate New York race may yet [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 11:45am EST

  • New campaign targets Democrats for health vote

    By Ben Pershing A conservative seniors' group is launching a seven-figure ad campaign against House Democrats who voted for the party's health-care reform bill Saturday, accusing them of cutting Medicare and saddling future generations with hefty deficits. The 60 Plus Association -- an advocacy group that calls itself the "conservative'" [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2009, 2:04pm EST

  • Lugar warns Democrats, 'I don't see any climate bill ... that I can support'

    By Juliet Eilperin One of the key Republican senators involved in the global warming debate on Capitol Hill said Tuesday the Senate will have to "start from scratch" in terms of crafting climate legislation. Sen. Richard Lugar (Ind.), the top Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, met Tuesday with United [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 8:03pm EST

  • Sparring within House intelligence panel over Fort Hood grows sharper

    Democrats accuse Rep. Pete Hoekstra of playing politics with the Fort Hood investigation. (Freddie Lee/Fox News via Getty Images). By Ben Pershing The investigation into last week's deadly shooting at Fort Hood has driven a sharp split between Democrats and Republicans on the House intelligence committee, with each side drawing [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 4:34pm EST
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