By John Solomon
How the government's punishing of the exposure of official wrongdoing can linger for years
The party that swept into power on promises of transparency and accountability scrambled Wednesday to circle wagons in an extravagant attempt to protect administration officials, the White House and the woman many Democrats hope will be their next nominee for president.
Liberal hopes to renew Bill Clinton's "assault weapon" ban are beginning to fade, but liberal bitterness is hard to conceal. Opponents of gun rights are turning their attention to legislative harassment.
A Democratic congresswoman is heralding President Obama as the next New Dealing Franklin Delano Roosevelt in gushing praise on the House floor following the Tuesday-evening State of the Union.
House members on Tuesday rolled out the chamber's first piece of bipartisan gun legislation since December's Connecticut school shootings, and Majority Leader Eric Cantor said he could envision strengthening federal background checks — two significant developments in a debate that has been left largely to the White House and the Democrat-controlled Senate.
The newly re-elected Obama administration should promote contraception as a human right, domestically and throughout the world, a veteran House member said Wednesday as a new report on global family-planning was released.
Inside the convention hall Tuesday, Democrats affirmed themselves as the pro-choice party, delivering the most detailed discussion of contraceptives and reproductive health in major-party political history and adopting a platform that defends abortion, including taxpayer funding for the procedure.
In the wake of the Supreme Court's stunning ruling on health care, activists on both sides of the abortion issue have pledged to bring the full weight of their movements into the November election battles.
Pop quiz: What is the most expensive lunch you can buy? Answer: The one someone convinces you is free. Ask your average fifth-grader if there's such thing as a free lunch. Now ask a Democrat. Care to wager who's smarter?
Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke was given her chance to talk to Congress on Thursday, even though lawmakers were on a break and just a few Democratic allies were there to cheer her on.
A somber and bipartisan shadow enveloped the House on Wednesday as members gathered in support of one of their own on the first work day since the attempted assassination of Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords last weekend.
After a last-minute compromise, Congress passed legislation Wednesday to provide up to $4.2 billion in new aid to survivors of the September 2001 terrorism attack on the World Trade Center and responders who became ill working in its ruins.
After a last-minute compromise, Congress passed legislation Wednesday to provide up to $4.2 billion in new aid to survivors of the September 2001 terrorism attack on the World Trade Center and responders who became ill working in its ruins.
Republicans have taken a 10-percentage-point lead over Democrats on the midterm generic ballot for Congress, the party's largest lead in the nearly 70 years Gallup has tracked the measure.
U.S. authorities have long considered human-trafficking to be a foreign problem, and as a result U.S.-focused efforts against such sexual exploitation have to battle a serious lack of safe shelter for victims.
A new analysis finds that paying unemployment benefits doesn't deter the jobless from still seeking work - throwing more fuel on the heated debate that has dominated Congress for much of the past several months.
"I find it truly disturbing and very unfortunate that when Americans come under attack, the first thing some did in this country was attack Americans," she said. "Attack the military; attack the president; attack the State Department; attack the former senator from the great state of New York, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton."
No, Mrs. Maloney said, Mrs. Clinton's name was typed at the bottom of the cable, not signed.
