U.S. Congress News

  • Mass. House initially approves gender-neutral law AP - Thu Jul 24, 4:08 AM ET

    BOSTON - The Massachusetts House of Representatives has given its initial approval to a bill that would require all future legislation be written in language that is gender neutral.

  • U.S. Senate to Take Up Fannie-Freddie Bill After House Approval Bloomberg - Thu Jul 24, 12:01 AM ET

    July 24 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Senate plans to consider the housing legislation designed to shore up confidence in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and stem record mortgage foreclosures after the House of Representatives approved it yesterday.

  • Chinese paramilitary soldiers march past the main Olympic Stadium, also known as the Bird's Nest, during a rehearsal of security drills in Beijing. US lawmakers Wednesday accused China of reneging on a commitment to improve human rights when it won the right to host the Olympics, saying it had instead intensified a crackdown on dissent.(AFP/Frederic J. Brown)
    US lawmakers consider Olympic rights message to China AFP - Wed Jul 23, 9:36 PM ET

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - A resolution was introduced Wednesday in the US House of Representatives asking China to end human rights abuses and its support for tainted governments in Sudan and Myanmar in line with "Olympic traditions of freedom and openness".

  • Gingrich to House GOP: Stay on Message CQPolitics.com - Wed Jul 23, 7:29 PM ET

    Drill, drill, drill is the message Americans want to hear on energy and GOP candidates should stay on that message, former Speaker Newt Gingrich told House Republicans Wednesday.

  • A foreclosure sign sits in front of a home for sale in April 2008 in Stockton, California. A wide-ranging housing rescue plan passed by the US House of Representatives on Wednesday could help ease the downward spiral in the property market that is weighing on the US economy, analysts say.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Justin Sullivan)
    US housing bill may stem downward spiral: analysts AFP - Wed Jul 23, 6:56 PM ET

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - A wide-ranging housing rescue plan passed by the US House of Representatives on Wednesday could help ease the downward spiral in the property market that is weighing on the US economy, analysts say.

  • Congressional Democrats Confident of November Gains CQPolitics.com - Wed Jul 23, 6:52 PM ET

    This Sunday will mark exactly 100 days until Election Day on Nov. 4 -- a political milestone of sorts that gave the leaders of the campaign organizations of House and Senate Democrats a pretext Wednesday to put an optimistic face on their prospects.

  • Justice Dept called uncooperative on voting rights AP - Wed Jul 23, 1:14 PM ET

    WASHINGTON - The House Judiciary Committee chairman on Wednesday said the Justice Department is stonewalling efforts to make sure this year's presidential voting operates fairly.

  • House Lawmakers to Vote on Fannie-Freddie Rescue Plan Bloomberg - Wed Jul 23, 10:05 AM ET

    July 23 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote today on a rescue plan for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac after lawmakers reached a deal on legislation aimed at alleviating the worst housing recession in a quarter century.

  • Alaska House OKs gas pipeline license AP - Wed Jul 23, 2:17 AM ET

    JUNEAU, Alaska - The Alaska State House of Representatives has approved a state license for a Canadian company to pursue a natural gas pipeline project that could unlock 4.5 billion cubic feet of North Slope gas reserves daily.

  • A supporter of U.S. Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain stands in front of the hotel of Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama in Berlin July 24, 2008. Obama is expected to call on Europe to do more in hotspots like Afghanistan when he speaks in Berlin on Thursday in his only formal address of a week-long foreign tour. (Michael Dalder/Reuters)
    House Republicans push to get McCain editorial in NY Times Politico - Wed Jul 23, 1:24 AM ET

    A House Republican will circulate a letter among his colleagues on Wednesday asking the New York Times whether a third-party group can take out a full-page advertisement in the paper to run a previously rejected editorial by their presidential candidate, Arizona Sen. John McCain, according to people familiar with the decision.

  • Infrastructure could spur new stimulus: Rep Reuters - Tue Jul 22, 8:18 PM ET

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress is discussing a second economic stimulus bill that could include nearly $15 billion in infrastructure spending, a senior member of the House of Representatives told Reuters on Tuesday.

  • Bush raises money for GOP House challenger AP - Tue Jul 22, 5:49 PM ET

    ATLANTA - President Bush is hoping that this will be the year his party ousts Democratic Rep. Jim Marshall from Congress and he came to Georgia on Tuesday to pump money into the campaign of Marshall's challenger.

  • House Democrats Continue Fundraising Success CQPolitics.com - Tue Jul 22, 5:37 PM ET

    House Democrats' campaign arm raised more than $10 million in June, once again outpacing its Republican counterpart committee in fundraising while plotting to augment its 236-199 majority in the November elections.

  • Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., right, followed by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., leave at the conclusion of a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, July 25, 2008. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
    Gold miner's son seeks energy refuge in solar AP - Tue Jul 22, 11:15 AM ET

    WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has found a refuge in the nation's preoccupation with record energy prices.

  • SC senator criticized for blog posting about Obama AP - Mon Jul 21, 10:26 PM ET

    COLUMBIA, S.C. - A Republican state senator is being criticized for a post on his blog that shows photos of Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden wearing similar clothing, along with a line that says the difference between them is "a little B.S."

  • Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., right, watches as Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., shows a chart of the outer continental shelf oil leasing program, Monday, July 14, 2008, during a briefing on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
    Reid confronts GOP antagonist with 40-bill package AP - Mon Jul 21, 7:44 PM ET

    WASHINGTON - Most lawmakers dream of getting their names linked to legislation. That won't be so when the Senate takes up what is unofficially being called the "Coburn Omnibus."

  • File photo shows a home for sale in Manassas, Virginia. The sputtering US economy, further undermined by alarming new financial data, has asserted itself as the main concern for US voters with Barack Obama and White House rival John McCain now seeking to convince the electorate that theirs is the platform capable of restoring the country's prosperity(AFP/File/Paul J. Richards)
    Economy top concern for voters as White House race heats up AFP - Mon Jul 21, 1:35 AM ET

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - The sputtering economy has asserted itself as the main concern for US voters less than four months ahead of presidential elections, and with an avalanche of alarming new data it appears unlikely that will change.

  • A Rabbi in Congress? Time.com - Sat Jul 19, 4:35 PM ET

    Dennis Shulman wants to be the first Jewish cleric elected to the House of Representatives. And the first blind congressman since 1935

  • Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain speaks in Ohio on July 16. McCain has asked if his Democratic rival Barack Obama would be wrong about Afghanistan as, in the Republican presidential hopeful's view, he had been about Iraq.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Scott Olson)
    Obama 'more left' than a socialist: McCain AFP - Fri Jul 18, 6:13 PM ET

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - Republican White House hopeful John McCain said Friday that his Democratic rival Barack Obama is further to the left than the only Socialist US senator.

  • President Bush, right, shakes hands with Republican congressional candidate, Pete Olsen, Friday, July 18, 2008 in Houston. Bush is in Houston for a fund raiser for Olsen. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)
    Bush raises money for GOP House candidates AP - Fri Jul 18, 4:49 PM ET

    HOUSTON - President Bush, in the second half of a Southwestern fundraising trip Friday, backed the candidacy of Republican Pete Olson, who is challenging incumbent Rep. Nick Lampson in Texas' 22nd congressional district.

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