CQPolitics.com - Voters nationwide took little notice of Sen. Christopher J. Dodd's brief run for the presidency this year, but he nonetheless came away with a consolation prize from the Democratic convention: the gavel of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, at least temporarily. -- read full article
Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:16:15 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
AFP - Barack Obama and John McCain feuded and laid claim to being the authentic candidate of change and reform on Sunday, as their White House showdown roared into a frenetic eight-week final stretch.
AP - Sen. Edward Kennedy, who has brain cancer, will not be on Capitol Hill this week when Congress returns from its summer break. He intends to work from his Massachusetts home this fall and return to the Senate in January. -- read full article
Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:27:09 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
CQPolitics.com - The back-to-back Democratic and Republican convention extragavanzas gave both parties a chance to put their best foot forward as the general election campaign gets under way. If their competing efforts are a wash -- and the earliest post-convention polling suggests that -- the advantage remains with the Democrats as far as their push to expand their congressional majorities.
AFP - Barack Obama and John McCain feuded and laid claim to being the authentic candidate of change and reform on Sunday as their White House showdown roared into a frenetic eight-week final stretch.
AP - Auto industry allies hope to secure up to $50 billion in government loans this month that would pay to modernize plants and help struggling car makers build more fuel-efficient vehicles.
AP - The House and Senate reconvene Monday after back-to-back political conventions, both parties eager to use the three-week session to show voters why their candidates are the ones to fix the economy and lower energy prices.
AP - Sen. Edward Kennedy will not be on Capitol Hill this week when Congress returns from its summer break. But the Massachusetts senator, who has brain cancer, does plan to return in January. -- read full article
Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:35:04 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
AFP - US presidential candidates jostled for the mantle of change Sunday as more bad economic news threatened to deepen electoral dissatisfaction with the state of the nation.
AFP - US scientists have unveiled the most complete genetic profile ever attempted of glioblastoma, a common and deadly form of the brain cancer that US Senator Edward Kennedy is battling.
CQPolitics.com - Members of the House Judiciary Committee made clear Friday they expect more answers from the FBI about its August announcement that a government scientist was responsible for the 2001 anthrax attacks on Capitol Hill and elsewhere. -- read full article
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:35:19 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
AFP - The US presidential election campaign went into full swing Friday under the shadows of a struggling economy, with unemployment figures soaring to a five-year high and triggering recession fears.
AFP - US scientists have unveiled the most complete genetic profile ever attempted of glioblastoma, a common and deadly form of the brain cancer that US Senator Edward Kennedy is battling.
CQPolitics.com - The parties' national conventions serve as gathering places for the party faithful to fire up their grass-roots voting base and officially select their presidential tickets. They also serve as platforms for congressional incumbents and challengers to draw national attention to their local contests -- that is, if they show up. -- read full article
Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:23:13 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News