Tag: Sean Lengell

A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced a bill Monday that would prohibit members of Congress from flying first class on commercial airlines at taxpayers' expense.ÃÂ (Thinkstock Image)

Bipartisan House bill calls on Congress to fly coach

Sean Lengell · May 12, 2014 4:00 am

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Senate rejects bipartisan energy bill

Sean Lengell · May 12, 2014 4:00 am

Sens. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., and Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn. (AP/Susan Walsh)

Senators call for songwriters to receive market-based compensation for their songs

Sean Lengell · May 12, 2014 4:00 am

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Private sponsors paid $1.51 million for congressional wanderlust

Sean Lengell · May 12, 2014 4:00 am

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said she is "leaning toward" appointing members to a special committee empaneled to investigate the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya.ÃÂ (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Nancy Pelosi: Americans ‘tired’ of Benghazi investigations

Sean Lengell · May 9, 2014 4:00 am

States and local communities aren't waiting for the federal government to establish rules for electronic cigarettes, enacting their own laws to regulate, restrict and tax the increasingly ubiquitous battery-powered inhalers. (Thinkstock Image)

States try to tamp down e-cigarettes

Sean Lengell · May 9, 2014 4:00 am

Shirts for sale are shown at the entrance of the Bitcoin Center NYC during a class on the basics of Bitcoin and how to trade the digital currency on February 26, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images)

FEC approves Bitcoins for political donations

Sean Lengell · May 8, 2014 4:00 am

Then-IRS official Lois Lerner is sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington, before the House Oversight Committee hearing to investigate the extra scrutiny IRS gave to tea party and other conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status. The House is preparing to vote May 7, on holding Lerner in contempt of Congress for refusing to testify at a pair of committee hearings about her role in the agency's tea party controversy. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

House holds ex-IRS official Lois Lerner in contempt

Sean Lengell · May 7, 2014 4:00 am

Armed pro-Russian men guard the barricades near the railway in Andreevka, few kilometers south of Slovyansk, Ukraine, Monday, May 5, 2014. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Sen. Dan Coats calls for new sanctions against Russia

Sean Lengell · May 5, 2014 4:00 am

Supreme Court approves town council’s Christian prayers

Supreme Court approves town council’s Christian prayers

Sean Lengell · May 5, 2014 4:00 am

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Social Security cards eyed for voter ID

Sean Lengell · May 2, 2014 4:00 am

Senate Democrats have proposed a constitutional amendment aimed at reversing recent Supreme Court decisions that loosened campaign finance restrictions. (AP Photo)

Senate Democrats propose constitutional amendment for campaign finance

Sean Lengell · April 30, 2014 4:00 am