Congress, after months of bitter fighting, is poised to pass Friday a payroll tax cut extension that President Barack Obama argues is vital to the health of the economy.
After Congressional negotiators signed off Thursday night on a $1 trillion omnibus spending bill that would avert a shutdown and fund the federal government through September, lawmakers' focus returned to the ongoing negotiations over the extension of the payroll tax cut.
The U.S. House of Representatives approved the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) on Wednesday evening by a vote of 283 to 136, with 14 members not voting. Find out how your Representative voted on the controversial bill.
Two-in-three voters say most members of Congress should be voted out of office in 2012--the highest on record. And the number who say their own member should be replaced matches the all-time high recorded in 2010, when fully 58 members of Congress lost reelection bids-- the most in any election since 1948, the Center states in the Poll's overview.
Two-in-three voters say most members of Congress should be voted out of office in 2012--the highest on record. And the number who say their own member should be replaced matches the all-time high recorded in 2010, when fully 58 members of Congress lost reelection bids-- the most in any election since 1948, the Center states in the Poll's overview.
U.S. lawmakers Thursday night reached a tentative deal to fund an array of government agencies through Sept. 30 and avert shutting down many of Washington's operations starting this weekend.
Congress Thursday approved a defense bill requiring the military to handle suspected foreign militants allied with al-Qaida, sending it to President Barack Obama for his expected signature.
American officials believe homemade weapons made in Pakistan are being used in Afghanistan against U.S. and NATO force
A crisis in U.S.-Pakistan relations looked set to deepen Monday night after a House-Senate negotiating panel froze $700 million in aid until Pakistan gives assurances it is helping fight the spread of improvised explosive devices in the region.
Only 20 percent of Americans told Gallup that Congressional incumbents deserve to be re-elected, the lowest percentage in the organization's 19-year history of asking that question.
Hackers broke into the Congress party website and replaced Sonia Gandhi's profile page with sexual innuendo, apparently timing the attack with the party president's 65th birthday on Friday.
Lawmakers examining the collapse of MF Global skewered the top U.S. futures regulator for sitting out his agency's probe of the bankrupt brokerage, whose former chief executive, Jon Corzine, is due to face his own drubbing later this week.
The United States Postal Service announced steps Monday to eliminate its next-day delivery of First Class mail in an effort to avoid bankruptcy in 2012.
Former MF Global chief Jon Corzine was subpoenaed to testify before Congress, setting up an awkward legal situation for the ex-senator facing multiple probes into the firm's collapse.
A U.S. House of Representatives committee voted to subpoena Jon Corzine to testify before Congress about the collapse of MF Global Holdings Ltd., after the former CEO refused an earlier invitation.
Looking for the richest 1 percent? There's a gaggle roaming the Capitol Hill Rotunda. For all the focus on Wall Street's ills and the growing income disparity in America, a prominent target has been overlooked: Congress. Many lawmakers have enjoyed handsome levels of fiscal success.
Insider trading by members of Congress is a clear problem, but fixing it may prove difficult.
The Federal Housing Administration (FHA)'s mortgage insurance fund is threatened by declining home prices and could require a taxpayer bailout, Congress members said at a hearing on Thursday, echoing an earlier report.
After the frenzy of Cyber Monday, members of Congress on Wednesday entered into a different scuffle over web shopping: states' desire to collect sales taxes from Internet retailers.
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill that looks to reinstate pizzas and French fries on lunch menus of federally funded schools. This follows an earlier proposal that threatened to remove the food items from the menu.
Bonus season could come early this year for employees who are paid on commissions, payroll servicers said on Tuesday, if Congress fails to extend the Obama administration's payroll tax cuts beyond 2011.
Jon Corzine, who has been publicly silent since resigning as MF Global Holdings Ltd's chief executive on November 4, was asked to appear before Congress next month to explain how his futures brokerage collapsed into bankruptcy so fast.
