The Christian Science Monitor - The battle for healthcare reform is shifting from open-field policy fights to the obscure trenches of procedural warfare, as House Democrats look to pass the Senate bill without a direct vote.
AP - Catholic nuns are urging Congress to pass President Barack Obama's health care plan, in an unusual public break with bishops who say it would subsidize abortion. -- read full article
Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:14:44 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
AP - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will make the case to Congress on Wednesday that the Fed should retain supervision of smaller banks. -- read full article
Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:33:08 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
Reuters - President Barack Obama said on Wednesday it was a positive indication that Democratic Representative Dennis Kucinich had decided to vote in favor of healthcare legislation in the House of Representatives.
AP - A U.S. congressional resolution that would recognize World War I-era killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as genocide could go forward despite opposition from the Obama administration. -- read full article
Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:54:50 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
AP - The 68-29 roll call Wednesday by which the Senate passed legislation giving tax breaks to companies that hire unemployed workers. -- read full article
Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:57:59 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
AP - The 68-29 roll call Wednesday by which the Senate passed legislation giving tax breaks to companies that hire unemployed workers. -- read full article
Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:59:19 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
Reuters - President Barack Obama picked up his first convert in the push for healthcare reform on Wednesday as Democrats in the House of Representatives prepared for a close weekend vote on final passage.
AFP - Amid deep election-year worries about high unemployment, the US Senate voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to send President Barack Obama a 17.6-billion-dollar package aimed at creating jobs.
AP - Former President Jimmy Carter on Wednesday called the divide among Republicans and Democrats in Washington "unprecedented," and said President Barack Obama should hold private meetings with GOP leaders to make sure the gap doesn't grow. -- read full article
Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:01:16 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
AP - A New Jersey appeals court has put on hold a conservative tea party group's effort to throw a Democratic U.S. senator out of office. -- read full article
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:51:32 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
AP - The wife and daughter of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid are recovering from a violent crash last week that left them with injuries that could have been much worse, he told reporters Tuesday.
Reuters - Most House Democrats back President Barack Obama's plan to let tax cuts for the wealthy expire this year, though the proposal will face a battle in the Senate, the acting chief of the tax-writing panel in the House of Representatives said on Tuesday. -- read full article
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:25:23 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
AP - President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats are pulling together a final version of a health care overhaul bill and pushing for House votes as early as this week. Democrats are awaiting cost assessments from the Congressional Budget Office that will allow them to finish details. Some of the main features as the bill takes shape: -- read full article
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:29:28 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
