With little more than three months until the interest rates on federally subsidized student loans double, students are pushing lawmakers to help them out.
The week ahead on Wall Street could be a choppy one, as investors remain worried about the debt crisis in Europe.
Military war dogs took center stage Monday afternoon on Capitol Hill, where they were honored for their service.
On Capitol Hill, a debt ceiling deadline loomed. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords made an emotional surprise visit to the House floor. In the rest of the nation's capital, thousands of rush-hour commuters dotted the city on their way to work.
It is impossible to decide whether to giggle or weep over the debt-ceiling crisis. When it comes to clown-car politics, it is hard to top the temerity of House Republicans now demanding a constitutional amendment as the paltry price for approving government borrowing through the 2012 election. But it also seems fitting to hang crepe over the Capitol as America faces the risk of becoming the first solvent nation ever to default because of the deadlock of democracy.
CNN tracks the avalanche of calls and e-mails to politicians after the president's speech on debt ceiling gridlock.
Lobbyists for the nuclear energy industry rushed to Capitol Hill this week to try to reassure members of Congress and their aides, who are deeply concerned about the nuclear crisis in Japan and what it could mean for nuclear energy in the U.S.
The battle to sway hearts and minds over debit card swipe fees is heating up fast on radio waves, in Capitol Hill newspapers and even on subway cars throughout the nation's capitol.
Flanked by parents whose children were killed in automobile accidents, congressional lawmakers Tuesday again launched a campaign for federal licensing standards for teenage drivers.
Commentary: Maya MacGuineas is the director of the fiscal policy program at the New America Foundation.
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas in Washington. Call it bipartisanship, political necessity or a burning desire to get home for the holidays.
A controversial plan by a presidential commission to slash $4 trillion in federal debt has drawn strong bipartisan support as the panel held its final vote on Friday.
Hoping to quell growing concerns in Congress about enhanced security procedures for airline passengers, top administration officials who oversee airport security went to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to explain the new methods and why they are needed.
Still reeling from yesterday's historic upset, scores of lame-duck lawmakers are likely taking the first steps toward cleaning out their desks at the Rayburn Building.
A group of responders and survivors of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks headed to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to urge Congress to pass legislation that will provide them with free health care.
Law enforcement officials briefly evacuated the area around the House of Representatives chamber on Monday after the discovery of a powdery substance, according to a spokeswoman for the Capitol Hill police.
Top Democratic and Republican leadership aides on Capitol Hill say President Barack Obama's two new economic proposals have almost no chance of passing Congress before the midterm elections, even though he's formally announced only one of them.
President Obama is pledging to propose a new package of job-boosting ideas next week -- just don't call it stimulus.
CNN's Larry King and his panel discuss BP chief executive officer Tony Hayward's testimony on Capitol Hill.
The battle over health care and whether to use the shortcut tactic known as reconciliation to push it through has thrust the Senate parliamentarian into the spotlight.
While most 11-year-olds would probably celebrate their birthdays with a party, Marcelas Owens was on the steps of Capitol Hill rallying for health care reform.
States are looking to the federal government for more help balancing their budgets, but the Senate is not heeding their call.
At 108 years old, Cpl. Frank Buckles said Thursday he hopes he lives to see the day when there's a memorial on the National Mall honoring all Americans who fought in World War I.
The global warming debate heats up at a Capitol Hill hearing on leaked e-mails. CNN's Mary Snow explains.
I've been digesting the recommendations of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force for two weeks now. And I'm still swallowing hard.
While political power in the nation's capital swings between parties, the power lunch remains the same.
While administrations come and go, and power in Congress teeters between political parties, one thing remains constant in the lives of Washington, D.C.'s, elite: the power lunch.
One million people could lose unemployment benefits in January if Congress doesn't extend federal aid, according to a report released Wednesday.
A new battle is brewing in Congress, riding the same populist wave that pitted banks against consumers on credit card fees earlier this year.
Two bills introduced on Capitol Hill in July aim to revise the tax code and get more money flowing into small business coffers.
Once he roamed the streets, moving from shelter to shelter. Now, Oliver Gomes rubs shoulders with Washington's elite.
As the debate on health-care reform heats up on Capitol Hill, it's clear lawmakers don't see eye-to-eye on the issue -- with each other or President Obama.
At 8:30 a.m., Kirsten Gillibrand looks like any other working mom in a minivan dropping off her baby boy at day care and her other son at school.
Judge Sonia Sotomayor has spoken for years about how her experiences as a Latina woman have influenced her public and private life.
Judge Sonia Sotomayor continued making the rounds on Capitol Hill Wednesday, meeting several additional U.S. senators who will help decide whether she becomes the country's first Hispanic Supreme Court justice.
Sen. Patrick Leahy talks about meeting with Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor.
Judge Sonia Sotomayor on Tuesday promised to apply the law "ultimately and completely" regardless of circumstance, said Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy.
It was an odd collection of vehicles on display on Capitol Hill, ranging from a bucket truck used for repairing power lines to something resembling an enclosed golf cart to a pair of hot-looking, two-seater sports cars.
Global warming concerns took center stage Monday as two organizations held rallies to draw attention to an issue that President Barack Obama has promised to place near the top of his agenda.
The recent debate over the nearly $900 billion economic stimulus plan and revelations of tax problems by three Obama administration appointees have voters angrily jamming phone lines on Capitol Hill to air their frustrations to their elected representatives.
At this hour Friday, Congress is still fighting over whether to give the automakers $14 billion to try to prevent General Motors and Chrysler from going bankrupt.
Congressional Democrats have a bigger majority than they've enjoyed in decades, but that doesn't necessarily mean there will be unity on Capitol Hill.
Much still remains to be decided, but here are the key issues
House conservatives urged Congress on Tuesday to "take a breath" and consider other alternatives before rushing to pass a $700 billion plan to bail out Wall Street, a measure the White House says must pass by the end of the week.
Paulson and Bernanke's three-page plan to rescue the American financial system may wind up with many more pages, but it is likely to win approval
Lawmakers return to Capitol Hill on Monday to resume their fight over legislation allowing more offshore oil drilling, in a bid to help relieve sky-high gasoline prices that are hurting the economy and infuriating voters.
Lawmakers return to Capitol Hill Monday to pick up where they left off in their bitter fight over energy legislation -- whether to allow more off-shore oil drilling to help relieve the sky-high price of gasoline that is hurting the economy and infuriating voters.
Near-record oil prices could quickly fall by half if Congress were to rein in speculators, according to testimony Monday from a hedge fund manager and oil company adviser on Capitol Hill.
With Iraqi government raids in Basra, what questions will Petraeus face on Capitol Hill? CNN's Barbara Starr reports.
Stocks were poised for a slightly lower open Thursday, but trading could be volatile as investors wait for more comments from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, news of a possible Senate deal to provide help to homeowners facing problems with their mortgages and Friday's jobs report.
A private plane entered the restricted airspace over Washington on Wednesday, prompting some people to evacuate buildings on Capitol Hill but posing no imminent threat, officials said.
U.S. taxpayers would get checks of several hundred dollars from the federal government under a plan to stimulate the economy, congressional and Bush administration officials said Thursday.
Congress is moving quickly on a plan to jump-start the U.S. economy. CNN's Kathleen Koch reports.
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson ended his third meeting of the day with House leaders Wednesday night with no indication of a deal on a $150 billion economic stimulus package.
President Bush makes comments on the economy during a meeting with a group of mayors.
The inspector-general of the House of Representatives will investigate recent allegations of sexual misconduct among congressional pages, the Democratic and Republican leaders of the chamber announced Wednesday.
Get ready for the possibility of a sequel to the Dubai Ports fracas. Only this time, the outcome of the deal under consideration will have implications for U.S.-China economic relations.
Stocks eased Thursday afternoon, as investors paused after a two-day rally to mull weak earnings from Bear Stearns and Circuit City, mixed reports on the economy and testimony from the subprime mortgage hearing on Capitol Hill.
Time.com: How to Remember 9/11updated: Mon Sep 10 2007 18:00:00
Some people fear complacency; others fear forgetting. Six years away from the fire, how should we mark Sept. 11?
U.S. stocks are likely to open higher Wednesday after improved sentiment helped stem a massive flight to quality and yields on shorter-dated Treasurys rebounded.
Chief executives of struggling Detroit-based automakers will press their energy and trade agendas in congressional meetings Wednesday, days before the Senate plans to take up proposed legislation to sharply hike fuel economy standards.
If this was 2003, or even 2004 - before the Iraq war went south, before Hurricane Katrina swept ashore, before last November's devastating Republican losses - Bush's State of the Union ideas (which his aides are calling "bold" and "innovative") might have been embraced. Unlike his politically risky 2005 proposal to reform Social Security, the plans he unveiled last night to combat climate change and soaring health care costs neatly catch the current wave of public sentiment.
John J. Castellani has a dream, best described (with apologies to Castellani) as a twist on the 1975 hit "Why Can't We Be Friends?". As president of the Business Roundtable, Castellani is the Washington go-to guy for the nation's top CEOs, and right now he's gamely trying to make the most of a new political environment in which his constituency is about as popular as a batch of rejects from last night's American Idol.
From the riotous coverage of this election, starting months ago and ending with the November 7 crescendo, one might conclude that momentous events are afoot: To the barricades! Out with the old; in with the new!
On the cusp of an election that could overturn the Republican majority on Capitol Hill, I jokingly asked a senior Democratic aide whether he had ordered new business cards to reflect majority status.
FBI agents were on Capitol Hill on Saturday searching the office of Rep. William Jefferson as part of a bribery investigation into the Louisiana Democrat, government officials said.
It is very reassuring that Republican negotiators in the House and Senate have reached an agreement to extend President George W. Bush's cuts in tax rates on dividends and capital gains. Equally reassuring, the negotiators plan to liberate as many as 15-million middle-income Americans from the impending burden of the alternative minimum income tax. Now the unparalleled economic growth that has characterized the American economy since the early 1980s can proceed. My only question is why?
So the Dubai ports deal is done, a United Arab Emirates-owned company has backed down, and CNN anchor (and deal opponent) Lou Dobbs is going to have to find something else to talk about. But the after-effects are likely to be felt in boardrooms across America as well as on Capitol Hill and in Arab capitals from Riyadh to Bahrain and Cairo.
The members of the Senate Banking Committee are throwing a lot of questions today at Ben Bernanke, President Bush's nominee to succeed Alan Greenspan as Fed chairman -- about inflation targeting, about transparency at the Fed, about taxes.
Capitol Hill police will search buses, tour vans and larger vehicles traveling on the roads leading to the Capitol as part of heightened security in response to the terror attacks in London Thursday, according to a police spokesman.
Lost in the fray of the public debate over Terri Schiavo, steroids and Social Security, a political revolution may be quietly taking hold this year, far away from the halls of Capitol Hill.
President Bush publicly added a nudge Tuesday to a push to get the stalled intelligence overhaul bill through this Congress.
"Brace yourselves," we were told. "It's coming ..."
U.S. Sen. Mark Dayton, D-Minnesota, closed his Capitol Hill office Tuesday until after the November 2 election, fearing a possible terrorist attack that could harm his staff or visitors.
As Congress got back to work this week after a summer break, legislative proposals to ban gay marriage and to revamp the nation's security appartus dominated headlines.
A crowd of shrieking fans followed embattled pop star Michael Jackson out of a Capitol Hill office building Wednesday after he met with lawmakers to discuss lending his celebrity to the fight against AIDS in Africa.
From CNN's Jennifer Coggiola in Washington:
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Fortune: Uh-Oh. More Gridlockupdated: Mon Dec 21 1998 00:01:00
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You could call it the supreme irony of life in these United States, circa 1991-92: Congress fiddles with middle-class tax breaks while that beleaguered class burns over state and local tax hikes. I...
Money Magazine: Consuming ourhome equity updated: Tue Oct 01 1991 00:01:00
A sharp rise in tax-deductible home-equity and second-mortgage loans has contributed to a dramatic decline in the equity that Americans hold in their homes, as the charts above show. Indeed, the eq...
What labor is to Democrats, big business is to Republicans, right? Not when it comes to money. Corporate America is backing Democrats over Republicans in November's Senate and House elections. Prag...
On the 11th floor of the Federal Reserve Bank building in lower Manhattan, in a cramped communal office, 34 staffers sweated out the study that everyone from Capitol Hill to the upstairs world of W...
A FEW BRIGHT SPOTS here and there cannot disguise an economy that is just muddling along. Even if it is not later revised downward, the first-quarter rate of 3.2% in inflation-adjusted GNP growth c...
BANK LOBBYISTS sometimes think that things haven't changed much in Washington since Andrew Jackson told a visiting delegation of bankers in 1832: ''You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to ...
PIONEERED years ago by a few groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, high- tech lobbying has really taken off. It starts with the tedious chore of polling an organization's members to set up a da...
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