Tag: House of Representatives

Maryland Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger is urging leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives to allow a vote to extend emergency unemployment insurance. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Dutch Ruppersberger urges vote on unemployment benefits

Associated Press · May 12, 2014 4:00 am

There Are Two Housing Markets in America

Irwin M. Stelzer · May 10, 2014 3:00 am

House Speaker John Boehner on Friday made his final Republican appointments to the select committee created to investigate the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that left four Americans dead, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

John Boehner announces GOP appointments for Benghazi select committee

David M. Drucker · May 9, 2014 4:00 am

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., speaks at her weekly news briefing Friday, May 9, 2014, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

National Security

GOP will start Benghazi probe without Dems after Nancy Pelosi rejects committee rules

Susan Ferrechio · May 9, 2014 4:00 am

House lawmakers, led by the GOP majority, voted to create a select committee on Benghazi for the sole purpose of finding out why four Americans were killed and how the Obama administration responded to the crisis. (Thinkstock Image)

Republicans look to dig deeper on Benghazi with panel

Susan Ferrechio · May 9, 2014 4:00 am

Speaker of the House John Boehner is asked about the special select committee he has formed to investigate the deadly 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, raising the stakes in a political battle with the Obama administration as the midterm election season heats up, during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 8, 2014. The National Republican Congressional Committee has issued a fundraising pitch on its website asking people to become a "Benghazi Watchdog" by donating money to GOP election efforts. Boehner has said that the examination would be "all about getting to the truth" of the Obama administration's response to the attack and would not be a partisan, election-year circus. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

National Security

House votes to start new Benghazi investigation

BRADLEY KLAPPERDONNA CASSATA · May 9, 2014 12:44 am

Six Dems Join House Republicans on Lerner Contempt Vote

Michael Warren · May 8, 2014 1:53 pm

President Barack Obama waves to a crowd on the tarmac as he arrives on Air Force One Thursday, May 8, 2014, at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego. Obama is scheduled to attend a political fundraiser during his brief stopover in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Obama ‘absolutely’ believes Democrats will win back House

Brian Hughes · May 8, 2014 4:00 am

Speaker of the House John Boehner is asked about the special select committee he has formed to investigate the deadly 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 8, 2014. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

John Boehner: Partisan split on Benghazi panel ’eminently fair’

David M. Drucker · May 8, 2014 4:00 am

Sen. Bernie Sanders has been open about the fact that he's considering a run for the presidency. He's made trips to New Hampshire and Iowa, where the group Progressive Democrats of America is launching a campaign to draft him to run. (AP Photo)

Bernie Sanders could be the Ron Paul of 2016

Philip Klein · May 8, 2014 4:00 am

Lawmakers are debating the 2014-15 spending plans Thursday, with new worries raised by federal rejection of financing for the LSU hospital privatization deals already put in place by Gov. Bobby Jindal. (AP Photo/AJ Mast)

Louisiana House debates $25 billion state budget

Melinda Deslatte · May 8, 2014 4:00 am

Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., speaks on Capitol Hill last year. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Top Nancy Pelosi ally: Seat just one Democrat on Benghazi panel

Susan Ferrechio · May 8, 2014 4:00 am