AP - Congress has added an extension of unemployment benefits to a bill that would fund Iraq war operations. What will this mean for unemployed Americans? -- read full article
Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:33:23 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
AP - Schools, hospitals and nursing homes would get a reprieve from cuts in their Medicaid payments under a House bill to pay for the war in Iraq. -- read full article
Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:42:34 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
AP - More than two-thirds of state attorneys general now back the right of reporters to withhold the identity of their sources in most federal court cases. -- read full article
Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:07:33 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
AP - A U.S. diplomat nominated to be ambassador to Armenia came under intense questioning Thursday at her confirmation hearing over the U.S. policy not to label as genocide the World War I-era killings of huge numbers of Armenians. -- read full article
Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:11:35 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
Reuters - The U.S. House of Representatives on
Thursday passed compromise legislation embraced by the Bush
administration to extend government benefits for the long-term
unemployed.
Reuters - The U.S. House of Representatives on
Thursday approved enough new money to wage wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan for another year, while abandoning attempts to set
deadlines opposed by President George W. Bush for withdrawing
American combat troops.
AP - The 416-12 roll call Thursday by which the House approved spending for revised GI Bill college benefits, a 13-week extension of unemployment checks and other domestic programs as part of the war-funding bill. -- read full article
Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:10:41 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
AP - The 268-155 roll call Thursday by which the House voted to provide $162 billion for U.S. operations in Iraq and Afghanistan into next year. -- read full article
Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:13:13 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
Reuters - The U.S. House of Representatives
approved $465 million on Thursday to fund an anti-narcotics
package to help battle drug cartels in Mexico and Central
America. -- read full article
Fri, 20 Jun 2008 02:56:42 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
AFP - The US House of Representatives approved Thursday a compromise bill to free up 162 billion dollars for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, stripped of a timetable to pull US troops out of Iraq.
AP - A broad bipartisan coalition supporting a massive foreclosure rescue beat back GOP efforts to gut it Thursday, defying a White House veto threat and quashing a bid to make it victim to revelations about two senators' VIP mortgages.
AP - For months the debate over whether telecommunications companies should face lawsuits for cooperating with the government's warrantless wiretapping program has been the sticking point for updating a surveillance law.
AP - A much-delayed Iraq war funding bill sailed through the House on Thursday, along with a doubling of college aid for returning troops and help for the unemployed and Midwestern flood victims.
Bloomberg - June 19 (Bloomberg) -- Democratic and Republican leaders in
the U.S. House of Representatives reached agreement with the
Bush administration yesterday on legislation to fund the wars in
Iraq and Afghanistan until President George W. Bush's successor
is in office. -- read full article
Thu, 19 Jun 2008 04:00:01 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
Reuters - Democrat Barack Obama said on
Thursday he would forego public financing of his general
election campaign against Republican John McCain, reversing an
earlier stance and positioning himself to outspend McCain in
the White House race.
