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  • 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

  • Bill Clinton calls on Senate Democrats to push through health bill

    Bill Clinton, joined by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), center, address the media as they head into the Senate Democratic Caucus luncheon Tuesday. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images). By Shailagh Murray Former president Bill Clinton urged Senate Democrats on Tuesday to overcome their differences and pass health-care reform as soon as possible, warning [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 3:54pm 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, the Military Construction/VA Appropriations. Recess for caucus luncheons will be from 12:30 until 2:15 p.m. Former President Bill Clinton plans to attend the Democratic luncheon. There will be no roll call votes [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 8:23am EST

  • EPA sends greenhouse gases finding to White House

    By Juliet Eilperin The Environmental Protection Agency has sent its final scientific finding on greenhouse gases to the White House, agency officials said Monday, a step that could trigger regulation of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases as pollutants under the Clean Air Act. Sources said the document concludes the [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 6:00pm EST

  • Multiple Hill probes of Fort Hood take shape

    By Ben Pershing Less than a week after the deadly shootings at Fort Hood, multiple congressional probes of the incident have already begun to take shape. The House is out of session this week and the Senate is only in town Monday and Tuesday, so many of the details will [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 10:15am EST

  • Lieberman: Committee investigation of Fort Hood to go forward

    By John Amick The Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs will seek to move forward on an investigation surrounding the mass shooting Thursday at Fort Hood Army base in Texas, Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.), the committee's chairman, said today. The chairman said the scope of the probe [...]
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    Posted: November 08, 2009, 10:09am EST

  • The House health care debate: What to watch for

    By Paul Kane The House has officially begun debate on President Obama's massive health-care proposal, with a final vote likely to come some time after 8 p.m. Several key moments have already occured, while a few more are in the offing, providing a glimpse of what the outcome will look' [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 6:00am EST

  • Democrats to resolve abortion impasse on the House floor

    Updated 1:29 a.m. By Lori Montgomery House Democratic leaders agreed Friday night to settle an impasse over abortion by letting the entire House vote on a proposed solution, a risky decision that could determine the fate of their trillion-dollar overhaul of the nation's health care system. Under the agreement, anti-abortion [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 1:07am EST

  • Ethics committee says Rep. Harman is not under scrutiny

    By Paul Kane The ethics committee is not investigating Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.), whose conversation with an Israeli operative four years ago drew scrutiny from the Justice Department and for a time from the committee. The committee's top lawmakers assured Harman that there is no investigation in a letter Wednesday, [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 6:20pm EST

  • Congress passes bill extending unemployment insurance, home buyer tax credit

    By Perry Bacon Jr. and Dina ElBoghdady Congress on Thursday completed final approval of a bill that includes several measures designed to spur the economy and help people who have lost their jobs, representing its latest intervention as the country suffers through its worst recession in decades. The $24 billion [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 3:59pm EST

  • Ethics committee clears Rep. Shuler

    By Ben Pershing The House ethics committee has informed Rep. Heath Shuler (D-N.C.) that he has been cleared of wrongdoing and is no longer under investigation by the panel for allegations that a real estate development in which he invested may have received preferential treatment from a government agency. Shuler, [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 3:08pm EST

  • Nine arrested in Hart Building ahead of health care protest

    Updated 12:51 p.m. By Philip Rucker As thousands of activists converged on the lawn of the Capitol for a midday rally against Democrats' health-care reform legislation, Capitol Police arrested nine protesters Thursday morning in the Hart Senate Office Building. The protesters were arrested about 10 a.m. on the seventh floor' [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 11:53am EST

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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 11:53am EST

  • AARP endorses House health-care bill

    By Lori Montgomery The AARP, the nation's largest and most influential association of older Americans, endorsed the House health-care bill Thursday morning and vowed to lobby House members in advance of Saturday's historic vote. AARP vice president Nancy A. LeaMond said the House package, which would spend more than $1 [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 11:44am EST

  • Today on the Hill

    The Senate convenes at 9:30 a.m. ET. There will be 40 minutes for debate with respect to H.R. 2847, Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations. At 12:15, the Senate will proceed to a cloture vote on the committee reported substitute amendment to H.R. 2847. The House meets at 10:00 a.m. for legislative [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 7:50am EST

  • Senate Democrats ready to pass climate bill Thursday despite GOP boycott, sources say

    By Juliet Eilperin Senate Democrats are likely to pass their climate bill out of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee without amendments Thursday, several sources familiar with the plan said Wednesday night. Facing an ongoing Republican boycott of the committee's markup of the bill, the panel's chairman, Sen. Barbara [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 11:15pm EST

  • Budget analysts say GOP bill would do little to expand health insurance coverage

    By Lori Montgomery The long-awaited Republican entry in the health care debate received its assessment late Wednesday from congressional budget analysts, who concluded that the proposal would barely dent the ranks of the uninsured. The measure would cover only 3 million additional people at a cost of $60 billion through [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 10:44pm EST

  • Senate passes bill extending homebuyer tax credit, unemployment benefits

    Updated 7:22 p.m. By Perry Bacon Jr. The Senate on Wednesday approved a bill that extends several measures designed to spur the economy and help people who have lost their jobs, including a provision that will extend unemployment benefits for up to 20 weeks in states with high unemployment rates. [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 6:30pm EST

  • Kerry, Graham, Lieberman announce a "dual track" on the climate bill

    By David A. Fahrenthold Even before a Senate committee could begin marking up the "Kerry-Boxer" climate bill, Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) himself announced a new "track" of negotiations over climate policy that makes his original bill look somewhat irrelevant. Kerry, appearing at the U.S. Capitol with Sens. Lindsay O. [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 3:27pm EST

  • NY-23 and the blame game

    NRCC Chairman Pete Sessions couldn't keep NY-23 in the red column. (AP Photo/LM Otero). By Ben Pershing As top Republicans busily gloated Wednesday over the party's convincing victories in New Jersey and Virginia, there was one GOP leader who wasn't holding any press conferences -- Rep. Pete Sessions (Texas). As [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 3:00pm EST

  • Today on the Hill

    The Senate convenes at 9:30 a.m. ET and will resume consideration of H.R.3548, the Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2009. The House meets at 10:00 for legislative business. The House will address H.R. 3639, the Expedited CARD Reform for Consumers Act of 2009. For a list of Congressional committee hearings, [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 7:19am EST

  • House releases final bill--vote possible by weekend

    By Lori Montgomery House leaders released the final version of their nearly 2,000-page health package late Tuesday, clearing the way for a vote by the full chamber as soon as this weekend. But Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (Md.) declined to say when debate would begin on the measure, issuing a [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 6:37am EST

  • Hoyer: number of investigations proves Congress is "most ethical" in history

    By Paul Kane House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) on Tuesday said that Democrats are living up to their promise to run the "most ethical" Congress in history, despite a new ethics committee document showing that his party's lawmakers have drawn far more scrutiny than Republicans. Hoyer cited the release [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2009, 5:45pm EST

  • Tuesday's other House race

    John Garamendi is very likely headed to Congress. (AP Photo). By Ben Pershing With the special election contest between Democrat Bill Owens and Conservative candidate Doug Hoffman in New York's 23rd district drawing so much attention, it's easy to overlook the fact that a second new member of Congress will [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2009, 4:55pm EST

  • Merkel on climate change, and the partisan divide

    By Juliet Eilperin German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Congress and the Obama administration to take bold steps to address global warming Tuesday, even as Senate Democrats and Republicans feuded over whether to press ahead with their chamber's version of a climate bill. Speaking at a joint session of Congress, Merkel [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2009, 1:04pm EST

  • Today on the Hill

    The Senate convenes at 10:00 a.m. ET. At 10:30, German Chancellor Angela Merkel will address a Joint Meeting of Congress. Following the Joint Meeting, the Senate will resume consideration of H.R.3548, the Unemployment Benefits Extension Act of 2009. The House will meet at 9:00 a.m. for legislative business and recess [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2009, 8:27am EST

  • Senate health-care debate still weeks away

    by Shailagh Murray Although the House appears on track to begin a floor debate on health care this week, the Senate showdown looks to be several weeks off. Senate Democratic leadership aides said they don't expect the Congressional Budget Office to deliver an official cost analysis of the Senate health-care' [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 6:35pm EST

  • House GOP prepping alternative health-care reform bill

    By Ben Pershing After months of criticizing Democrats' health-care proposals without offering one of their own, House Republicans are preparing to unveil a reform bill this week to compete with the majority's ideas. Having lambasted the bill unveiled by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) for being nearly 2,000 pages long with' [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 6:01pm EST

  • Civil rights groups open K Street office in final health-care push

    By Krissah Thompson After some small-scale, disjointed efforts to push for health care reform, civil rights groups are renting temporary office space on K Street and combining their efforts to run an operations center with the sole goal of lobbying on health care policy. The office will be run by [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 5:16pm EST
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