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Capitol Hill weighs GOP payroll tax gambit
Feb 14, 2012 at 7:45 AM
House lawmakers are returning to Capitol Hill to weigh a proposal by GOP leaders to extend the 2-percentage-point cut in the payroll tax through the end of the year and add the approximately $100 billion cost to the nation's $15 trillion-plus debt...

House passes insider trading bill
Feb 9, 2012 at 10:16 AM
The House passed a bill banning Congress and executive branch officials from insider trading, but brushed aside a provision aimed at reining in those who pry financial information from Congress and sell it to investment firms.

House GOP introduces its insider trading bill
Feb 8, 2012 at 7:45 AM
House Republicans have introduced their version of a bill to ban insider trading by thousands of federal officials, and have added provisions to bar lawmakers convicted of a felony from collecting their government pensions.

Giffords will soon face decision about future
Jan 7, 2012 at 8:32 AM
The wounded congresswoman's future will depend on a recovery that has progressed in remarkable fashion over the past year as she is now able to walk and talk.

Congress moves toward standoff over payroll tax
Dec 19, 2011 at 8:49 AM
Partisan to the core, Congress careened toward a holiday-season standoff Monday on legislation to prevent a Social Security payroll tax increase for 160 million workers on Jan. 1.

Deficit 'supercommittee' struggles as clock ticks
Oct 10, 2011 at 7:29 AM
After weeks of secret meetings, the 12-member deficit-cutting panel established under last summer's budget and debt deal appears no closer to a breakthrough than when talks began last month.

Repeal of gay ban causing few waves in military
Sep 20, 2011 at 6:59 AM
After years of debate and months of final preparations, the military can no longer prevent gays from serving openly in its ranks.

Navy officer, partner wed in Vt. as ban ends
Sep 19, 2011 at 10:02 AM
When Navy Lt. Gary Ross and his partner were searching for a place to get married, they settled on a site in Vermont, in part because the state is in the Eastern time zone.

Obama: Pass jobs bill without 'division or delay'
Sep 17, 2011 at 11:44 AM
President Barack Obama is keeping up his appeal for public support of his $447 billion proposal to boost jobs and consumer spending by urging Americans to press Congress to pass the legislation. "No more division or delay," he said.

Obama asks $450 billion to lift economy, mostly tax cuts
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Sep 8, 2011 at 3:37 PM
Confronting an economy in peril, President Obama on Thursday night unveiled a $450 billion plan to boost jobs and put cash in the pockets of dispirited Americans, challenging Republican skeptics to embrace an approach heavy on the tax cuts they traditionally love.

Debt panel members face conflicting pressures
Aug 11, 2011 at 7:40 AM
Before even getting down to work, members of Congress' new debt-reduction supercommittee face pressures to rally behind partisan principles and to find even more savings than planned.

Boehner taps Texas conservative for debt panel
Aug 10, 2011 at 10:31 AM
A conservative Texas Republican congressman has been chosen by House Speaker John Boehner to co-chair a powerful new committee tasked to find a bipartisan plan to slash the federal budget deficit by over $1 trillion.

House to end page program after nearly 200 years
Aug 8, 2011 at 4:05 PM
After nearly 200 years, the House page program that allowed high school students to serve as messengers and learn about Congress is ending, rendered obsolete by the Internet and email in cost-cutting times.

The next deficit deal: There's a rough road ahead
Aug 4, 2011 at 7:30 AM
The special panel's goal is lofty: concoct a deal both parties will embrace to slash federal deficits by a mammoth $1.5 trillion or more over the next decade.

Debt is a done deal, but peace truce already fades
Aug 2, 2011 at 8:23 AM
With scant time to spare, President Barack Obama signed legislation Tuesday to avoid an unprecedented national default that he said would have devastated the U.S. economy. But the truce with Republicans that defused the crisis seemed to be fading already.