AP - Democrats are picking up the pieces after an embarrassing technical gaffe that delayed a triumphant rejection of President Bush's veto of a massive farm bill.
AP - Sen. Edward Kennedy's diagnosis of a malignant brain tumor has left Congress without its best dealmaker and boldest liberal, a politician known for his staunch positions and willingness to work with right-wing lawmakers.
AP - People in Massachusetts suddenly are thinking the unthinkable: Who possibly could succeed Sen. Edward Kennedy, patriarch of the famed political family that has dominated the state for more than four decades?
Reuters - The Senate Banking Committee is
scheduled on Thursday to question President George W. Bush's
nominee to run the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
CQPolitics.com - The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) outraised the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) in April and began May with its most lopsided advantage yet in the amount of money the campaign committees have to spend in the final six months of the election year. -- read full article
Wed, 21 May 2008 19:08:18 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
AFP - Veteran US Senator Edward Kennedy left hospital Wednesday giving a thumbs up to waiting supporters a day after doctors announced he had a malignant brain tumor.
AP - Dangerous air emissions from giant cargo ships would be sharply reduced under legislation that passed a Senate committee Wednesday despite objections from Republicans. -- read full article
Wed, 21 May 2008 20:44:31 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
AP - Domestic nutrition programs make up the largest portion of the estimated $300 billion farm bill. Crop subsidies make up roughly 14 percent, foreign food aid less than 1 percent. -- read full article
Wed, 21 May 2008 22:06:08 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
AP - Sen. Edward Kennedy's diagnosis of a malignant brain tumor has left Congress without its best dealmaker and boldest liberal, a politician known for his staunch positions and willingness to work with right-wing lawmakers.
AP - A technical glitch on an unrelated piece of legislation forced Democrats Wednesday to jerk their election-year fiscal blueprint from the House floor. -- read full article
Thu, 22 May 2008 00:52:52 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
AP - On a day oil prices leaped to unheard-of highs, senators lined up Big Oil's biggest executives and pummeled them with complaints that they're pretending to be "hapless victims" while raking in record profits.
AP - The House passed a $54 billion tax package Wednesday that Democratic backers said would help relieve dependence on imported oil while easing the economic strain on parents, homeowners and businesses. -- read full article
Thu, 22 May 2008 01:11:12 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
AP - Rep. Laura Richardson has an unusual perspective on the housing foreclosure bills moving through Congress: One of her own homes was threatened with repossession after she failed to pay the mortgage.
