...director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Obama's choice for energy secretary, and Rep. Hilda Solis, a Los Angeles congresswoman who has been nominated to lead the Labor Department. Panetta, though, who has limited experience in either foreign...

... Anyone who follows politics will recall the hue and cry that greeted President Bush’s 2005 proposal to allow workers to save a portion of their Social Security payroll taxes in personal accounts. But even many who follow politics today could be forgiven f...

...policymakers work to set the economy aright before working to resolve it. Meanwhile, Obama also said that he plans to keep any congressional earmarks out of the stimulus bill which he hopes Congress will get to him by the end of this month or early February....

...from the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy and Pew Oceans Commission reports. The bill was first introduced in July 2004 in the 108th Congress and has been revised with input from ocean and fishing groups. The ocean is vital to the survival of our planet and...

...Afghanistan and Pakistan, both very likely to be important hot spots for Mr. Obama.” I guess the average age of both houses of Congress increased because the people threw out the children of the repugnant one's party.  We definitely need more adult like...

...he'll be able to come to Europe and to Italy and even visit us in Calabria. That would be really nice". Mr Panetta was elected to Congress, serving in the House of Representatives from 1977 to 1993 before becoming Mr Clinton's chief of staff in 1994, a post...

...40, who volunteered for the Obama campaign in Indiana last fall, said Mr. Burris does not have a mandate an that he feels the Congressional Black Caucus is pushing an agenda that is not in line with "everyday, run-of-the-mill African Americans." "This is indicative...

...to create the Reagan-1981 dynamic of a coherent "bipartisan" piece of legislation that demands majority support outside and inside Congress. If that's true, then perhaps the "compromises" supposedly being made in the development of the package are the last,...

...in the automotive industry continue to be disastrous. As most are now aware, American auto makers will receive a bailout even though Congress was unable to reach agreement on the matter. However, it is not just American automakers that are dealing with the...

...slender 5-foot-2 Republican attorney's history-making victory came against an 18-year incumbent — the first black congressman from Louisiana since Reconstruction — who was considered invincible despite being hobbled by scandal. "People are calling me a dragon-slayer,"...