Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) promised Friday that Democrats would spend the first week of the next Congress moving an massive economic stimulus package that should include a permanent tax cut for middle-income Americans.

"Our focus for the first …

Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) called a press conference earlier today to emphasize that the minority intends to be a part of the legislative debate, faulting Democrats for a "recornd number of cloture petitions." He also sent a letter …

House Republican Leader John A. Boehner hasn’t wasted any time positioning himself and his GOP colleagues for future fights with the next chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee.

On Friday, the Ohio Republican, who opposes this latest …

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) plans to renew her select committee to address global warming next year, ending speculation that she would terminate the panel to clear the way for the next chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee.

"It …

It’s been less than a week, but it seems we’re on chapter 37 of the will-she -or-won’t-she Secretary of State saga.

Bill and Hillary Clinton have apparently turned in all the paperwork the Obama team has requested and the Secretary of …

If Ways and Means Chairman Charlie Rangel’s outlook is any indication, President-elect Barack Obama will get along just fine with House Democrats on some of his biggest priorities.

On health care reform and tax code changes, the New …

 What is Ways and Means Chairman Charlie Rangel looking for in the next Treasury Secretary?

“Him sharing with me whether [Henry] Paulson makes any sense at all,” the New York Democrat said when a reporter asked him that …

With the larger fight for the chairmanship of the Energy and Commerce Committee over, with Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) emerging the victor, backers of ousted chairman John Dingell (D-Mich.) are now scrambling to hold on to their subcommittee chairmanships.

Reps. Bart …

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who took great pains to stay neutral in the divisive fight for the Energy and Commerce chairmanship, praised both lawmakers after the election, despite her sometimes deep differences with the loser, Michigan Rep. John D. …

House Republican Leader John A. Boehner didn’t have a vote in the contentious race for chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, but that didn’t stop him from leveling a pretty harsh assessment of the result.

"This decision sends a …