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National Democrats are a long way from those heady days in 2006 when U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, promised to "drain the swamp" of corruption on Capitol Hill if voters gave them control of Congress.

This country is in big trouble. 11/07/2009 8:17:04 AM PST by concerned about politics To: Gargantua Thanks for the heads up.. what is Dingell doing? It seems every time an opponent comes up he interrupts their time and uses it to discuss parliamentary procedure.

More than 100 fellow U.S. lawmakers are supporting U.S. Rep. Todd Platts' bid to become the federal government's top financial watchdog.

About the only consistent thing in this burg over 46 years of observation is that a whole lot of the politicians who run it never seem to learn from the past.

The health care overhaul working its way through Congress probably won't reach the president's desk until next year, Rep.

A document inadvertently made public this week confirms the U.S. House ethics committee is reviewing U.S. Rep.

The nation's top military officer said Wednesday that he expected the Pentagon to ask Congress in the next few months for emergency financing to support the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, even though President Obama has pledged to end the Bush administration practice of paying for the conflicts with so-called supplemental funds that are outside the ...

Updated at 12:36 p.m. on Nov. 4. Republicans had a strong night Tuesday, strengthening the resolve of party strategists who now believe they hold the same key weapon Democrats wielded in 2006 and 2008: A motivated base of activists who can fuel their party's comeback.

WASHINGTON Last week, The Washington Post managed to surreptitiously stumble across a document revealing that several members of the House Defense Appropriations subcommittee are being investigated by the House Ethics Committee.

The U.S. House ethics panel's weekly summary posted on a public network shows more than 25 Democrats and seven Republicans were targets of ethics reviews.

Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur of Toledo is under scrutiny by House ethics officials for her ties to a Washington-area lobbying firm that is being investigated by the Justice Department.

U.S. Rep. Artur Davis, D-Birmingham, announced today that he will vote against the version of health care reform legislation pending in the U.S. House.

Reporting from Washington - Nearly half the members of the House subcommittee that oversees more than $600 billion in Pentagon spending have been targeted by ethics investigators who are probing the conduct of a once-influential Washington lobbying firm, according to a confidential document that the House Ethics Committee says was inadvertently ...

Following the worst breach in the House Ethics Committee's security in the more than a decade, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Minority Leader John Boehner announced Friday that they have ordered a review on the handling of sensitive data.

Leaked documents that surfaced this week reveal that the U.S. Justice Department asked the House Ethics Committee last summer to back off its investigation of U.S. Rep.

U.S. Rep. Norm Dicks said Friday he has been interviewed by the Office of Congressional Ethics, which is looking into his relationship with a once influential lobbying firm that the Justice Department is investigating for possible criminal violations.

Congressional leaders expressed concern Friday that the accidental disclosure of a list of more than two dozen members who had faced accusations of misconduct could compromise future ethics inquiries and unfairly taint some lawmakers who had been cleared of old complaints.

All three network morning shows on Friday skipped a Washington Post reportA revealing that powerful congressional Democrats such as John Murtha, James Moran and others on a defense panel are the subject of an ethics investigation for a relationship with a lobbying firm.

The House ethics committee announced Thursday it is investigating two California Democratic lawmakers, but its embarrassed leaders then had to explain that other members - named in a confidential memo that a hacker posted online - may have committed no wrongdoing.

Rep. John Murtha announced the Private Industry Council of Westmoreland/Fayette Inc.