Think Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson’s got a tough job? Meet Kevin Fromer, Treasury’s top liaison to Congress.

Fueled by pizza and sandwiches during day-and-night negotiating sessions on Capitol Hill, Fromer averaged only four hours of sleep each of …

Minnesota Rep. Jim Ramstad finally has a strong chance to win a career-long fight: equal treatment for mental illness in health care coverage. But victory won’t come cheap: It’ll be about $700 billion, to be precise.

That’s the …

How can you identify winners and losers in a week when the economy raced toward the abyss — and Congress publicly disintegrated at the very moment its wisdom and leadership were most needed?

It’s nearly impossible to know how …

In the wake of the stunning House defeat of the $700 billion economic rescue plan, the business community has launched an unprecedented lobbying blitz to polish the plan’s public image and change some votes.

Since Monday, calls have gone …

How the Senate voted Wednesday on the financial bailout bill (S. Amdt. 5685 to H.R. 1424):

Akaka (D-HI), Yea
Alexander (R-TN), Yea
Allard (R-CO), Nay
Barrasso (R-WY), Nay
Baucus (D-MT), Yea
Bayh (D-IN), Yea
Bennett …

A stronger-than-expected Senate vote Wednesday night gives the White House new confidence that it has turned the corner and can win final approval from Congress Friday of Treasury’s $700 billion rescue plan for the financial markets.

The 74-25 roll …

The White House is now cautiously optimistic that it has turned the corner and can see a path for Congress to complete action Friday on Treasury’s $700 billion rescue plan for the financial markets. 

Caution is still very much …

The Senate hopes to revive Treasury’s $700 billion financial rescue plan Wednesday night by packaging it together with more than $100 billion in popular tax breaks as well as aid to rural schools important to House Republicans.

To …

The $700 billion rescue plan the House defeated Monday would have passed if just 12 more members of the House had voted the other way. Here’s a list of a dozen members who voted against the bill — and what …

After a decades-long battle in Washington, the word “deregulator” passed away last week, succumbing to the political complications of an economic meltdown. Although its precise age was not known, it was thought to be in its mid-40s.

The word …