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Johnnie Daniels and Kerwin Barber search through job listings at a job fair Los Angeles.

In a display of populist anger toward the Federal Reserve , a House panel voted on Thursday to let Congress carry out sweeping new oversights of the central bank's policy decisions and operations.

Tommy Jacquette, the longtime executive director of the Watts Summer Festival, died Nov.

Taking aim at Wall Street and the U.S. central bank, an important House committee voted Thursday to assess fees on large financial firms to pay for the failure of their peers and to require a sweeping congressional audit of the secretive Federal Reserve.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson on Wednesday night criticized Rep. Artur Davis for voting against the Democrats' signature healthcare bill.

Congressmen are getting cranky about the work of a new independent House ethics board, and that's a good sign.

Nov. 19, 2009 - A hearing on the Federal Housing Administration's risk management practices and finances will be held following the Thanksgiving holiday, House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank, D-Mass., said Wednesday.

Most class projects never leave the classroom, but one class's effort has traveled 2,600 miles away - to Washington, DC.

In the original Star Wars, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Luke Skywalker are in search of a freighter pilot to get off the planet.

Outraged to learn that government agents have been spying on American anti-war demonstrators, Pasadena Congressman Adam Schiff has joined a chorus of lawmakers and activists calling for an investigation into potential civil liberties abuses by Bush administration officials.

On Saturday November 7, 2009, black-owned barbershops across Los Angeles will participate in a program sponsored by the Diabetic Amputation Prevention Foundation and Dr.

November 8, 2009) - Are seven investigations too many to be a coincidence? All seven of the full-scale ethics investigations currently underway in the U.S. House of Representatives are focused on African-American lawmakers-and it would be eight if the committee conducting the investigations hadn't deferred to the Justice Department's investigation ...

The House of Representatives has successfully passed the health care bill with 220 votes.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Click Here for Part 1 The Boehner Amendment, otherwise known as "The Republican 'Alternative'" had some contentious debate as well, featuring a 20-minute closing speech by Minority Leader Rep.

Members of Congress are rarely presented with an opportunity to support the passage of truly historic legislation.

The House floor erupted in one of the loudest cheers the chamber has heard in years when Rep.

The process of cleaning up Wall Street is long, complicated, and, not surprisingly, ugly.

All were being looked at in connection with their work obtaining earmarks for clients of an influential lobbying firm known as the PMA Group.

Congressional ethics investigators have concluded that North Carolina Rep. Heath Shuler did not act inappropriately while a residential development that he was involved in sought lake-access rights from the Tennessee Valley Authority.

Securities and Exchange Commission Chairwoman Mary Schapiro said Wednesday she is committed to adopting rules in early 2010 to make it easier for shareholders to nominate a minority slate of directors, a controversial move opposed by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other business interests.