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House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said at a press briefing on Tuesday that there was "bipartisan support" for Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to prosecute four prominent terrorists, including 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, in civilian court in New York City.

Romney's political action committee, , is leading all other politician PACs in receipts this year with more than $3 million.

U.S. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer pushed fellow Democrats on the Ways and Means Committee to adopt a new, permanent estate tax instead of a one-year measure to keep the current levy from expiring next year.

The Democrat-controlled House voted Thursday to add more than $200 billion to the deficit to prevent steep Medicare payment cuts to doctors, a move Republicans denounced as a political payoff.

More than 1 million people will run out of unemployment benefits in January unless Congress quickly extends federal emergency aid, a nonprofit group said Wednesday.

By Lori Montgomery Now that they've finished their health-care bill, House leaders are turning their attention to the soaring unemployment rate.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday that she hopes to move on a jobs bill next month but cautioned against rushing in before Democrats have found the 'right initiative' to deal with whata s proved to be a very stubborn, deep recession for workers.

Stung by constituents' concerns about their vanishing or vulnerable jobs, congressional leaders launched a strong push Tuesday to pass a "jobs creation" package by the end of this year.

Baltimore County poised to ban minors from tanning TOWSON a ' Baltimore County could become the latest Maryland jurisdiction to prohibit the use of tanning facilities by minors.

Did you get the sense that the House Democratic Leadership was frantic, even desperate, to nail down the vote for the 1,990-page healthcare reform bill? No, not the actual votes from members Democrats were worried might go south on them-though House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer had good reason to be concerned about ...

Amid intense lobbying by the Obama administration, House Democratic leaders struggled Friday for the final votes needed to pass sweeping health care legislation, offering fresh concessions to abortion opponents and working to ease concerns among Hispanic holdouts.

Close NOVEMBER 7, 2009, 5:32 P.M. ET WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama made a final appeal to House Democrats to vote for a health-care bill, saying "Now is the time to finish the job." View Full Image Getty Images Obama met with members of the House leadership, including from left, House Majority Whip James Clyburn, Rep.

Handing President Obama a hard-fought victory, the House narrowly approved a sweeping overhaul of the nation's health care system on Saturday night, advancing legislation that Democrats said could stand as their defining social policy achievement.

Hoosiers have known for weeks that Indiana's Republican Congressional delegation won't vote for health-care reform, but they're still waiting to hear what the Democrats will do.

Opponents of the House health-care bill and Democrat leaders are competing for about a dozen moderate Democrat votes as lobbyists are descending on Capitol Hill in a last-minute rush to sway Saturdaya s vote.

UPDATE: The House passed the health care reform bill Saturday night. By the time this editorial appears in print, the U.S. House may have voted on a massive, game-changing health care reform bill backed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. And if Pelosi's vote-counting confidence is well-founded, the bill may have been narrowly approved in a ...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, left, and Rep. George Miller exult at a press conference at the U.S. Capitol, Saturday night.

With a historic floor vote looming on their healthcare bill, House Democratic leaders worked into the night Friday to round up rank and file Democratswho still had not committed to support the legislation despite weeks of cajoling and deal-making. Senior Democrats maintained they would have the 218 votes to needed for passage when the House votes, ...

THE House of Representatives narrowly passed a health-care bill on Saturday November 7th, a big step for those who want to reform America's $2.5 trillion health-care system.

In all of the celebratory remarks by President Barack Obama and other Democrats about making history with this weekend's House vote in favor of healthcare reform nobody is really talking much about the fact that the Democrats did it by the skin of their teeth.