Hey, millionaires! In case you haven't noticed, some members of Congress think you should pay more taxes.
CNN's Jessica Yellin gives an overview of the divide between the GOP and Tea Party members.
About 50 members of the House of Representatives turned out for a talk by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on Monday in a session participants called "very conversational" and a "wonderful exchange of ideas."
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.
A bipartisan commission will decide Friday whether to send Congress its controversial plan for slashing the federal deficit.
Republican Sens. Tom Coburn and Mike Crapo say they'll back the recommendations of the President's debt commission plan.
A firm affiliated with the former Blackwater security company has been awarded a contract to provide protection to U.S. consulates and diplomats in the Afghan cities of Herat and Mazar-e Sharif, a U.S. State Department official confirmed on Saturday.
Oil industry experts said there is no sure-fire way to stop the massive amount of oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico.
May 7th video of the failed effort to use a 100-ton containment dome to contain the oil leak.
Illinois Rep. Jan Schakowsky was one of President Obama's earliest and most ardent supporters.
A member of Congress Friday called on the State Department to stop doing business with Xe, the North Carolina-based security company formerly known as Blackwater Worldwide.
BP's top U.S. executives told lawmakers Thursday that the company stumbled by failing to prevent a major Alaskan pipeline from becoming crippled by corrosion.