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The House Ways and Means Committee says the U.S. Constitution shields it in the case involving a staff member.

The House bill gives the Pentagon more money for equipment, less for military health, and severely curbs Obama and the NSA.

The inclusion of Hamas brings threats to cut off U.S. aid to the Palestinian Authority.

The median net worth of a member of the U.S. Congress is more than $1 million for the first time ever.

The Innovation Act, H.R. 3309, passed the House floor on Thursday, paving the way to remove patent troll cases.

Supporters of a narrowly defeated House bill that would have defunded the NSA's controversial surveillance were encouraged by the extremely close vote.

Tea Party darling Michele Bachmann announced Wednesday she won't seek re-election for her seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.In a video message, Bachmann, who ran for the Republican presidential nominations last year, emphasized that her standing down didn't have anything to do with the investigation into the activities of her presidential campaign staff, or concerns she would be defeated for the Minnesota seat in 2014.And for the Tea Party Patriots, or TPP, the country's largest tea party organization, she will be sorely missed.

The Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013, or VAWA, has been passed by the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, sending the bill to the White House for President Barack Obama to sign.

The embattled congressman reportedly resigned as part of a plea deal with federal investigators examining if Jackson misused campaign donations.

Arizona Democrat Ron Barber was declared the winner in the nationally highlighted special election to fill Gabrielle Giffords' former seat in the House of Representatives, news reports said.

Industry has struggled to sway U.N. climate talks in Copenhagen because of a remote negotiating process and a lobby split between climate policy winners and losers, executives said on Friday.