List of U.S. Congress articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Unlikely Boehner-Obama-McConnell Team Scores a Huge Win on Trade
Obama and Boehner teamed up to score a big win on trade. How will Democrats respond?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Top Republican Senator Warns White House of ‘Breathtaking’ Nuclear Concessions
A moderate Republican now warns the United States is giving up too much in nuclear talks with Iran.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Obama’s Trade Defeat Imperils U.S. Credibility in Asia
Congress’s rejection of a far-reaching Pacific trade pact is more than just a political blow to the president.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 House Democrats Shoot Down Obama’s Trade Deal
If the president's dream of a Trans-Pacific Partnership is killed on Friday, his own party will have signed the death warrant.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A Thank You to the Intel Community, Brought to You by Northrop Grumman
Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) and Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.) thank the intelligence community with chocolate sponsored by Northrop Grumman.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How Azerbaijan and Its Lobbyists Spin Congress
The Aliyev regime is selling itself in Washington as friendly and progressive. Is your Congressman buying it?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 With the Passage of NSA Reforms, Telecoms Say the Buck Has Been Passed to Them
The two-year fight to overhaul the National Security Agency ended this week with President Barack Obama’s signing of the USA Freedom Act.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Congress Passes Overhaul of NSA Surveillance Program
Ending more than a week of intense debate, the Senate voted on Tuesday to limit the federal government’s vast surveillance powers while keeping many powerful snooping programs intact -- a compromise meant to balance civil liberties concerns with the intelligence community’s insistence that it needs the tools to prevent future attacks against the United States.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Forget the Patriot Act – Here Are the Privacy Violations You Should Be Worried About
America hasn't even begun to have a meaningful debate about curtailing the government's right to spy on citizens.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Tea Party and ACLU Call on Congress to Let Patriot Act Expire
In the literal definition of a strange bedfellows alliance, a top Tea Party group and the American Civil Liberties Union are pressing lawmakers to allow the controversial provisions of the Patriot Act that authorize the National Security Agency's broad surveillance activities to expire.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Lawmakers Urge Pentagon Chief to Save Suicide Prevention Program
A powerful group of lawmakers is asking Defense Secretary Ashton Carter to reconsider the Pentagon’s recent decision to eliminate funding for Vets4Warriors.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Obama’s Asia Trade Deal Might Pass the Senate. It’s Not Looking So Good in the House.
An unlikely alliance of lawmakers, labor union, and the Tea Party could sink Obama's Asia trade bill in the House.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Families of Marines Killed on Humanitarian Missions Get Fewer Benefits
Like the families of the 1,400 U.S. Marines killed in action in recent years, Andrea and Jim Hug of Phoenix, Arizona planned to travel to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware this month to receive their son’s coffin after getting news that he died in a helicopter crash in Nepal.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 White House Shoots Down North Korea’s Claim It Can Miniaturize Nukes
The White House shot down a claim by North Korea on Wednesday that the rogue state has developed the technology to miniaturize nuclear weapons, an important step in developing a nuclear missile.
