AP - The chairman of the of Senate Judiciary Committee said Wednesday he does not believe that Dr. Bruce Ivins acted alone in the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks.
AP - Republicans failed Tuesday to block a major defense bill that included a pay raise for military personnel when one of their own, retiring Sen. John Warner, rallied senators to advance the legislation out of respect for U.S. troops at war. -- read full article
Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:47:46 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
AP - Among the few bills likely to actually become law before Congress closes shop for the elections is a plan to give struggling U.S. automakers $25 billion in federal loans. -- read full article
Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:00:39 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
Bloomberg - Sept. 16 (Bloomberg) -- House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer
said a proposal to have the U.S. create an agency to buy
distressed debt won't be considered before Congress adjourns on
Sept. 26, ahead of the Nov. 4 elections. -- read full article
Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:57:56 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
AP - Senate leaders said Tuesday that they had broken a months-long impasse over a tax break package that would bring billions of dollars in relief to individual and business taxpayers, developers of clean energy resources and people threatened by the alternative minimum tax. -- read full article
Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:51:35 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
AP - A top congressional Democrat asked the Justice Department Tuesday to block Mississippi's Republican governor from putting a special election for Trent Lott's old Senate seat near the bottom of the November ballot.
AP - The turmoil on Wall Street is prompting a key congressional Democrat to consider a broad federal market rescue that could include creating a new government entity to take over collapsed financial institutions and sell off their assets, as lawmakers did during the 1980s savings and loan crisis. -- read full article
Wed, 17 Sep 2008 02:05:03 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
AP - The top Republican on the Senate Banking Committee says the Bush administration doesn't appear to have a set policy for deciding when to support private-sector bailouts. -- read full article
Wed, 17 Sep 2008 02:07:29 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
AP - The House took up NRA-backed legislation Tuesday to eliminate most of the gun restrictions in the nation's capital, including a ban on semiautomatic weapons. -- read full article
Wed, 17 Sep 2008 02:15:49 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
Reuters - The U.S. House of Representatives
passed legislation Tuesday that lifts a longstanding ban on
offshore oil drilling, opening most of the U.S. coastline to
exploration.
AP - The 236-189 roll call Tuesday by which the House voted to allow oil drilling off the nation's coasts beyond 50 miles out if states agree. -- read full article
Wed, 17 Sep 2008 02:58:28 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
AP - Sen. John Kerry fended off his first Democratic challenger in nearly a quarter century, handily defeating political newcomer Ed O'Reilly in Tuesday's primary.
Time.com - Looking to neutralize a key Republican campaign issue, the House majority passes legislation allowing offshore drilling -- read full article
Wed, 17 Sep 2008 06:15:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News
