Category: House of Representatives

Congress passed the President's 3.5 trillion dollar budget yesterday. No Republican voted for the measure but twenty House Democrats and two Democrat Senators voted against the legislation. While Republicans …

House Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank is taking his TARP mandate and the Obama Corporate Management Strategy to the next logical step by proposing legislation that would heavily regulate …

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's plan to fix the bank problem is coming into focus this weekend. Based on initial reports it appears the Obama administration is going to attempt …

As Michael noted yesterday the House passed Speaker Pelosi's targeted tax increase on AIG (and other TARP funded) bonus recipients. Regrettably, almost half of the Republicans in the chamber …

The political debacle that is now AIG threatens to force Democrats to do something they haven't had to do in years: govern and live with the consequences of their …

My favorite wife of a Congressman is back in the news. Beverly Young knew there was a reason she missed her flight to the nation's capital Monday. Young, the …

Buried amid yesterday's coverage of the president's announcement that 50,000 troops will remain in Iraq and Treasury Secretary Geithner's acquisition of almost half of Citibank was this interesting development, …

Sixteen House Republicans voted for it, too. So we have another very expensive, earmark-riddled, spending bill: The Democratic-controlled House approved $410 billion legislation Wednesday that boosted domestic programs, bristled …

Today's winner is Republican Congressman Phil Gingrey. He gets the award for the following- "Chain migration is a ticking time bomb. Under current law, one legal immigrant could potentially …

As discussed the other night, Democrats in Congress are in heat over the opportunity to impose wage restraints on bankers, so much so that they desired to inflict their …