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But that doesn't mean that the San Francisco Bay Area's technology sector hasn't provided a host of opportunities for women, many of whom have risen up to become among the most powerful and influential figures in the world.

The Obama administration got some good news Thursday as California regulators released the estimated premiums for healthcare plans sold through the state's insurance exchange.

Negotiators from both parties in the House are struggling to complete work on a comprehensive agreement to reform immigration.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi blamed former President George W. Bush for the IRS' targeting of tea party groups in the lead-up to the 2012 election.

Insisting that she's "done nothing wrong," Lois Lerner, the IRS official in charge of the division that targeted conservative nonprofit groups for additional scrutiny of their applications for tax-exempt status, invoked her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination during a congressional testimony.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi vowed Thursday that taxpayers will not cover healthcare costs for illegal immigrants who gain a pathway to citizenship under immigration reform.

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, assures his chamber "won't be stampeded" by the White House and Senate and will "work its will" on immigration legislation - but "don't ask me how," he added.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., asked reporters why it has become "politicized" that the IRS singled out conservative groups for excessive scrutiny, pointing out that Steven Miller, former acting director of the agency, was appointed by George W. Bush.

Among the prominent signatories are Douglas Holtz-Eakin, AAF president and former head of the Congressional Budget Office; R. Glenn Hubbard, former chairman, White House Council of Economic Advisers; supply-side guru Arthur B. Laffer; Edward Lazear, former chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers; Lawrence Lindsey, former director ... (more)

Vice President Joe Biden and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi took turns Wednesday leading an often humorous but sometimes emotional celebration of the decades-long service of the Rev.

In the first remarks of his political comeback bid, Anthony Weiner said he hasn't spoken with Nancy Pelosi or Barack Obama since he resigned his House seat.

WASHINGTON Lawmakers stepped up their efforts Wednesday to pressure the Pentagon and the Department of Veterans Affairs to address a bureaucratic backlog that has some veterans waiting years for disability claims.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and her deputies must decide this week whether to back a tentative bipartisan agreement on immigration reform or place a risky bet on more favorable Senate legislation.

Now that the IRS has been exposed for what it is, this might be a good time to abolish it and go to the fair tax.

In this May 20, 2013 file photo, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., left, confers with Sen.

Michelle Obama beat Hillary Clinton in Forbes's ranking of the world's 100 Most Powerful Women.

South Bay Democratic Rep. Mike Honda, seeking 2014 re-election, has announced a host of endorsements from Asian American and Pacific Islander leaders - including actors George Takei and Kal Penn, and Maya Soetoro-Ng, the sister of President Barack Obama.

Chinese artist and political dissident Ai Weiwei tells Playboy magazine that he's disillusioned with Rep.

The race has attracted the attention of organized labor, Bill Clinton, and a longtime ally to President Obama.

The decade-old law that transformed the battle against HIV and AIDS in developing countries is at a crossroads.