The nation’s home builders, tired of being left off the economic bailout train, launched a lobbying campaign on Monday to push for $200 billion in housing assistance in a stimulus bill that is likely to be a top priority when …

Kenneth Feinberg, a Democratic lawyer who’s mediated some of the country’s toughest disputes, reportedly is a top candidate to oversee the $15 billion auto industry rescue fund.

If appointed “car czar,” Feinberg would write guidelines for a restructuring …

The Big Three automakers returned to Capitol Hill on Thursday without a horde of lobbyists hovering, a deliberate effort to put on a more humble show as they pleaded again for government aid.

Ford and Chrysler have refrained from hiring a …

Jack Krumholtz, the founder of Microsoft’s government affairs office, told his staff Thursday he’s resigning to seek other challenges.

The high-tech giant is expected to name a successor in the coming days.

Krumholtz, 47, opened the …

Outgoing Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff offered reporters on Wednesday some bits of advice for his announced successor in the new Obama administration, Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano. 

In the long transition run-up, several reports have called for reorganizing the …

Defense Secretary Robert Gates, the first Pentagon chief to be asked to stay on by any newly elected president, declared on Tuesday he has no intention of being “caretaker secretary” in Barack Obama’s administration and would pursue the president-elect’s timetable …

You think the economy is bad? Consider this: The nation’s economic funk is now affecting K Street.

The National Association of Manufacturers has just implemented a 10 percent across-the-board budget cut that resulted in a net reduction of …

A new fault line is forming in the health care reform debate that could prove to be just as bruising as the conservative-vs.-progressive battles: the schism between single-payer and public-private advocates.

Both sides are pushing for universal health …

Retiring Republican Sen. John Warner is waging one last fight for his home state, trying to fend off a decision by the Navy to base a new nuclear aircraft carrier in Florida instead of Virginia.

During his 30 …

If Barack Obama maintains the lift on the federal moratorium on offshore drilling, he may be able to forge early peace with the oil industry by potentially opening up more domestic production while using a series of procedural checks and …