Congress

Organization

News

WashingtonPost Business, 12.03.10 01:30 UTC

Obama lays out job-creation ideas

Cutting taxes and limiting credit are among president's ideas

President minority leader manufacturing unemployment insurance energy efficiency Mitch McConnell +7 more

WashingtonPost Politics, 12.03.10 01:04 UTC

Private companies, lobbyists seek to differentiate worthy projects from earmark requests

As lawmakers imposed another restriction Thursday on congressional earmarks, private companies and lobbyists defended their work in securing federal money for what they deemed worthy projects. The ...

Washington Cleveland president and chief executive of Technology Management House Minority Leader Ohio John A. Boehner +3 more

Seattle Times, 12.03.10 00:17 UTC

Fiscal policy: real world (state governments) vs. fantasyland (federal government)

While the federal government is going deeper into debt by the minute, writes David S. Broder, governors and state legislators live in the real world, where budgets mean something more than a formula for shifting burdens to the next generation.

Washington President Wisconsin China Japan Nicholas Johnson +9 more

Huffington Post, 12.03.10 00:15 UTC

Jeff Schweitzer: Three's a Crowd: Republicans, Democrats and the Catholic Church

Have no doubt that the Catholic Church has dropped all pretense of being a religious organization. Cathedrals are nothing but a gathering place for constituents to organize lobbying campaigns, ...

St. Louis Archbishop candidate for public office candidate representative Newsweek, Inc. +17 more

NPR, 11.03.10 23:30 UTC

GOP Targets Democrats On Ethics, Earmarks

The minority party's job is to hold the majority party's feet to the fire, and to point out when there are ethical lapses. That is one of the few things the minority party can do in opposition.

Majority Leader House Republican leader Democratic lawmaker House Speaker Democrats Mark Foley +8 more

WashingtonPost Politics, 11.03.10 23:08 UTC

GOP takes issue with Holder's signing of terrorism-related legal brief in '04

Senate Republicans attacked the attorney general Thursday for failing to disclose during his confirmation process last year that he had signed a 2004 legal brief in an important terrorism case. The ...

Attorney General Arizona Alabama law enforcement office Jon Kyl Jose Padilla +10 more

WashingtonPost Politics, 11.03.10 23:08 UTC

Justices and politicians should boycott the State of the Union

The increasingly puerile spectacle of presidential State of the Union addresses is indicative of the state of the union and is unnecessary: The Constitution requires only that the president "shall ...

State of the Union chief justice President chief Alabama United States +9 more

Wired, 11.03.10 23:07 UTC

Al Franken Jokes, But Google Fiber Is No Laughing Matter

Now U.S. Senator Al Franken has been enlisted to lobby Google in a bid by two midwestern cities to get free upgrades to gigabit internet connections. Comedy from the funniest man in Congress may give ...

SAN FRANCISCO Sarasota Meanwhile Madison Brooklyn Huntsville real mayor of Duluth +19 more

USA Today, 11.03.10 23:06 UTC

Pentagon: F-35 fighter jet cost doubles

WASHINGTON (AP) The Pentagon said Thursday the cost to build its next-generation fighter jet has doubled to as much as $113 million per plane since 2001.

chairman Joint Strike Fighter F-35 F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Michigan weapons systems +12 more

Huffington Post, 11.03.10 22:45 UTC

Larry Abrams: The Little Putz

I was thinking about Rahm Emanuel last Saturday morning and how he's spreading the word that he's not responsible for the policy debacles of the Obama Administration (because the White House hasn't ...