Tag: House of Representatives

Carly: Women Disagree with Democrats on Late-Term Abortion

Michael Warren · June 11, 2015 5:37 pm

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., arrives at a weekly press briefing on Capitol Hill on Thursday, June 4, 2015. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Pelosi says Democrats still have power to block trade deal

Susan Ferrechio · June 11, 2015 4:33 pm

Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.), center, and fellow Democratic members of Congress hold a news conference to voice their opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal at the U.S. Capitol June 10, 2015 in Washington, D.C. The congressional Republican leadership announced that the House will vote as early as Friday to approve the TPP and give President Barack Obama fast-track authority to negotiate a large-scale trade deal. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Energy and Environment

Greens slam ‘fast track’ package over climate concerns

Zack Colman · June 10, 2015 9:50 pm

Innovation Act set for markup by House committee

Innovation Act set for markup by House committee

Jessica Karmasek · June 10, 2015 7:00 pm

House sets Friday vote on ‘fast track’ trade powers for Obama

House sets Friday vote on ‘fast track’ trade powers for Obama

Susan Ferrechio · June 10, 2015 3:00 pm

"While making good use of limited tax dollars, this legislation also makes great strides in reining in wasteful spending and stopping harmful and unnecessary bureaucratic overreach," said Rep. Hal Rogers, R-Ky. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images File)

House moves to oversee consumer bureau’s funding

Joseph Lawler · June 10, 2015 2:57 pm

Katherine Archuleta, director of the Office of Personnel Management, participates in a discussion at the Women Veterans Career Development Forum at Women in Military Service for America Memorial on November 10, 2014 in Arlington, Virginia. (Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images for BPW Foundation)

OPM to brief Intel panel on data breach

Susan Ferrechio · June 9, 2015 4:59 pm

The entrance to the Theodore Roosevelt Federal Building that houses the Office of Personnel Management headquarters is shown June 5, 2015 in Washington, DC. U.S. investigators have said that at least four million current and former federal employees might have had their personal information stolen by Chinese hackers. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

National Security

House staff spared from data breach

Susan Ferrechio · June 5, 2015 8:35 pm

On May 28, 2015, federal prosecutors indictedÂ Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert, 73, on bank-related charges. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Report: Dennis Hastert victim named

Kelly Cohen · June 5, 2015 1:33 pm

Flashback — Rick Perry forgets what government department he’d eliminate: ‘Oops’

Flashback — Rick Perry forgets what government department he’d eliminate: ‘Oops’

Barbara Boland · June 4, 2015 5:57 pm

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 21, 2015. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

‘Fast track’ in trouble: Boehner says Obama still has ‘work to do’ to pass trade bill

Pete Kasperowicz · June 4, 2015 4:31 pm

In both his revolving door lobbying and his self-enriching land deals, Dennis Hastert embodied what ails Washington, and what has so much of the country so sick with Washington. (AP Photo)Â

Hastert’s self-enrichment indicts Washington establishment

Timothy P. Carney · June 4, 2015 11:55 am