By
Meredith Shiner
| May 26, 2012, 11:13 a.m.
With Senators at home for Memorial Day weekend, it’ll be all parades and picnics. At least until Democrats and Republicans start going after each other in full-on campaign mode.
By
Warren Rojas
| May 25, 2012, 3:54 p.m.
Pro-choice activists went on the offensive this week after one of their own got dressed down by a flight crew for donning what American Airlines personnel deemed to be an over-the-top T-shirt.
By
Jonathan Strong
| May 25, 2012, 3:38 p.m.
The House Ways and Means Committee on Thursday published a list of approximately 1,300 proposed limited tariff bills under consideration for inclusion in legislation that Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.) is pushing.
By
Amanda Becker
| May 25, 2012, 2:28 p.m.
The Senate Ethics Committee today publicly admonished Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) for having improper contact with an aide to former Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) during the one-year period after he left the Senate.
By
Warren Rojas
| May 25, 2012, 2:06 p.m.
John Scofield, the one-time mouthpiece for the Congressional committee tasked with burning through money, was back in the news this week. Only this time he let his cooking do all the talking.
By
Neda Semnani
| May 25, 2012, 1:30 p.m.
The house where the legendary 1972 porn “Deep Throat” was filmed is now on the market in Miami, Fla., the real estate blog Zwillow reports.
By
Daniel Newhauser
| May 25, 2012, 12:55 p.m.
In a memo to Members today, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor laid out the House GOP legislative agenda through the end of the summer, including a vote on the expiring Bush-era tax cuts in July.
By
Jonathan Strong
| May 25, 2012, 12:01 a.m.
A coalition of liberal interest groups is pushing back on a proposal by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to extend the Bush tax cuts for individuals earning less than $1 million a year, instead pushing a proposal from President Barack Obama that would draw the line at $250,000 a year in income.
By
Emma Dumain
| May 24, 2012, 8 p.m.
After more than a month of uncertainty, the Senate has passed a bill to facilitate charging electric cars in Senate garages.
By
Amanda Becker
| May 24, 2012, 5:41 p.m.
Two Justice Department prosecutors who engaged in “reckless professional misconduct” that derailed the prosecution of the late Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) will be suspended without pay, a disciplinary unit within the agency announced this week.
By
Humberto Sanchez
| May 24, 2012, 5:18 p.m.
With a July 1 deadline approaching, Senate Democrats and Republicans remain at odds over how to pay for legislation that would avert the doubling of interest rates on student loans as the chamber rejected competing proposals Thursday.
By
Neda Semnani
| May 24, 2012, 5:08 p.m.
Rep. Sean Duffy is kicking it “old school” on Highway 53 on the way to Lake Superior.
By
Steven T. Dennis
| May 24, 2012, 4:05 p.m.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid today proposed a deal to Republicans that would install another top opponent of the Yucca Mountain, Nev., nuclear waste site as head of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
By
Emma Dumain
| May 24, 2012, 2:56 p.m.
Last year’s intrachamber battles over spending for Congressional operations focused on the Capitol Police and Government Accountability Office budgets; this year’s fight could be over restoring the aging Capitol Dome.
By
Humberto Sanchez
| May 24, 2012, 2:01 p.m.
The Senate passed a 60-day extension of the National Flood Insurance Program today after agreeing to include a provision in the stopgap measure that would exclude vacation homes.
By
John Stanton
| May 24, 2012, 12:24 p.m.
Party leaders are quickly wading into New Jersey’s Democratic incumbent-vs.-incumbent grudge match between Reps. Bill Pascrell and Steven Rothman, with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid joining a growing number of top Democrats throwing their financial weight behind Pascrell’s campaign.
By
Warren Rojas
| May 24, 2012, 12:20 p.m.
First lady Michelle Obama has been calling on kids and parents to climb aboard the healthy-eating bandwagon for years now.
By
Emily Cahn
| May 24, 2012, 11:38 a.m.
Former Rep. William Creed Wampler, a moderate Republican who turned Virginia’s 9th district red after 22 years of Democratic control, died Wednesday night after a long illness, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch. He was 86.
By
Neda Semnani
| May 24, 2012, 12:02 a.m.
Chicago residents: The next time you receive a package, closely ogle the delivery guy. He might be your Congressman.
By
Janie Lorber
| May 24, 2012, 12:02 a.m.
Democrats get ready! Local tea party folks plan to greet those attending the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., with some serious political verbiage — at least the ones arriving via the highway. “When the DNC arrives, we will have an impact,” Yadkin Valley Tea Party activist Mark Hager pledges.
