US House of Representatives News

Today, Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee Dave Camp released a letter from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation confirming that the failure to comply with the individual mandate to buy health insurance contained in the Pelosi health care bill could land people in jail.

Finally, Gen. Casimir Pulaski became an American on Friday, 230 years after the Polish nobleman died fighting for what became the United States.

Pixel Magic today announced a new digital media studio at LITE in Lafayette. It could create 40 direct new jobs in 3 years.

A pair of military briefings to members of Congress about the Fort Hood rampage resulted in confusion and conflicting information late Friday on the number of wounded.

Democratic Rep. Barney Frank took a dig Friday at the Republican lawmaker who organized a protest by conservatives against health care legislation.

The unemployment rate has hit double digits for the first time since 1983 -- and is likely to go higher.

BATON ROUGE - School officials at a Race to the Top information session Thursday say they will wait until the final federal regulations come out before deciding whether to apply for the funds aimed at improving low-performing schools.

Southern Democrats who watched the trouncing of their party's gubernatorial nominee in Virginia this week are starting to worry that a rising anti-Democratic tide in the South may reverse their hard-fought gains from the last two national elections.

Texas Rep. John Carter says his first thought about the Ft. Hood shootings was that it may have been the result of a soldier dealing with mental healt ...

A soldier opened fire at a U.S. Army base in Fort Hood, Texas, on Thursday, unleashing a stream of gunfire that left 12 people dead and 31 wounded.

The Northwest Airlines pilots who overshot Minneapolis by 150 miles have filed appeals of their license revocations with the National Transportation Safety Board.

Thursday, November 05, 2009 at 9:53 a.m. WASHINGTON a ' President Barack Obama is making good on a campaign promise to have a yearly summit with American Indians to hear their concerns.

Recognizing that a weak economy still needs a government boost, the Senate voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to provide the jobless with up to 20 weeks in additional unemployment benefits and expand a first-time homebuyer tax credit to include a far larger pool of people entering the dormant housing market.

Two Republican lawmakers advising Ohio's Democratic governor on changes to the state's lethal injection process say it shouldn't be hard to fix the system.

Once upon a time, Mark Kirk was a "moderate" Republican who held a Democratic-leaning seat just north of Chicago.

Gov. Bobby Jindal authorized the construction of LSU's $60 million E.J. Ourso College of Business complex today, with an announcement that $30 million in the state's capital outlay system would be released for the project.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. _ Democrats retained control of a left-leaning Northern California congressional district Tuesday, electing a career politician who said he will side faithfully with the Obama administration on health care, climate legislation and other hot-button policies.

In a sharp rebuke of Wall Street after a string of hefty bailouts last year, House Democrats are considering legislation that would let the government break up even healthy firms if regulators think they've grown too big.

In a blow to the White House, the Senate's top Democrat signaled Tuesday that Congress may fail to meet a year-end deadline for passing health care legislation, leaving the measure's fate to the uncertainties of the 2010 election season.

Democrat Bill Owens is leading with 53,562 votes or about 49 percent of the vote in a special Congressional election in northern New York that has grabbed national headlines in its final days as it highlighted divisions within the Republican Party.