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A five percent tax surcharge on the wealthiest that Senate Democrats propose would cover President Barack Obama's roughly $450 billion jobs package.

U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., criticized the influence anti-tax activist Grover Norquist has on Washington.

Democrat Earl Ray Tomblin held on for a slim victory in a special election for governor of West Virginia Tuesday, narrowly preventing a third state special election embarrassment for President Barack Obama.

The U.S. Senate is as mad as you-know-what and it's apparently not going to take it anymore: the Senate Tuesday voted overwhelmingly, 79-19, to approve a procedural measure that speeds the way for a bill designed to put pressure on China to allow its currency to appreciate.

The news regarding the American public's attitude toward Congress just gets worse: A record-high number of citizens (89%) are greatly dissatisfied by the job Congress is doing, according to a new poll.

NPR has named former Sesame Workshop chief Gary Knell as its new president and CEO, replacing the controversial Vivian Schiller, the public broadcaster announced on Sunday.

China's official news agency derided on Sunday U.S. lawmakers' efforts to pressure Beijing over its currency policy as expedient and shallow, saying they were resorting to an old habit of deflecting blame on China.

Republican appropriators in the House of Representatives released a draft spending bill that blocks funding to Planned Parenthood unless the group certifies that it will stop providing abortions.

Newt Gingrich's Contract With America gets an update from the 1994 agreement that launched a Republican takeover of Congress.

With his allegations that Planned Parenthood has misused federal funds, U.S. Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., is taking out his frustration by lobbing malicious, unsubstantiated allegations, just like an elementary school bully who's angry that he lost a game.

Democrats seem split on their enthusiasm more than a year before the 2012 elections, with a poll showing that 44 percent are less excited about voting.

The Obama administration will push back the release of the most ambitious proposal ever for automakers to improve fuel efficiency of their passenger cars, sport utility vehicles and pickups.

Congress had been at odds over offsets for Federal Emergency Management Agency disaster relief. But FEMA on Monday said that the agency has $114 million for emergency disaster relief, avoiding the need for an infusion of money before the fiscal year ends Friday.

Before a Senate vote on a stop-gap government funding measure, Majority Leader Harry Reid criticized House Republicans for leaving town without reaching a bipartisan deal to keep government from shutting down and funding FEMA without offsets.

Republicans in the House of Representatives regrouped Friday to approve a must-pass spending bill, but the prospect of a government shutdown loomed as Democrats said it would go nowhere in the Senate.

Stock index futures fell on Friday as talk of a Greece default gained pace and a day after markets spiraled downward on deepening worries about global economic stagnation.

Stock index futures pointed to a higher open on Wall Street on Friday after steep declines the previous session, with futures for the S&P 500, the Dow Jones and the Nasdaq 100 up by between 0.6 and 0.8 percent.

Republicans in the House of Representatives regrouped after midnight Friday to approve a must-pass spending bill, but the prospect of a government shutdown loomed as Democrats said it would go nowhere in the Senate.

Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.) told the Media Research Center's Brent Bozell that the mainstream media coddles President Obama because they want the country's first black president to be successful.

The House of Representatives unexpectedly defeated a bill to fund the federal government past Sept. 30 Wednesday evening as dozens of Republicans broke with their party to push for deeper spending cuts.

Republican Rep. Phil Roe, who was a practicing obstetrician before his election to Congress, saved a man's life on Tuesday morning during a pit stop at a North Carolina airport.