From NPR News in Washington, Im Lakshmi Singh. President Obama is hailing a new analysis by the Congressional Budget Office that says his healthcare bill will reduce the deficit. NPRs Mara Liasson reports. In the Rose Garden just before signing a job...
Democrats in the US Congress are racing to pass health care reform legislation. Currently, people in their 20s are the largest group in the United States without health insurance. With skyrocketing health care costs, those with low incomes often cann...
Congressional leaders have had mixed reactions to President Barack Obama's first State of the Union speech. A number of Democratic lawmakers said the president's speech was hopeful and upbeat, while some Republicans accused the president of looking b...
The 2010 congressional elections in November will be a major test for the president as voters judge his record on the economy, health care, Afghanistan and many other issues. Jim Malone | Washington 29 December 2009 Photo: AP President Barack Obama,...
US president acknowledges toughest part of the process may lie ahead, melding the House and Senate versions of the sweeping health care reform bill into one. Paula Wolfson | White House 24 December 2009 Photo: AP President Barack Obama, accompanied b...
Kent Klein | Washington 14 December 2009 President Barack Obama visiting a U.S. factory As his first year in office nears an end, U.S. President Barack Obama is gearing up for his second. The nation's economy, the war in Afghanistan and November's co...
U.S. lawmakers expressed outrage in a congressional hearing on Wednesday about tens of millions of dollars in employee bonuses paid by the troubled insurance conglomerate, American International Group, or AIG. Testimony by AIG's chief executive came...
By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 26 September 2007 A key congressional committee has approved legislation supporting democracy and human rights in Ethiopia. VOA's Dan Robinson reports from Capitol Hill, where consideration by the House Foreign Affairs Co...
By Deborah Tate Capitol Hill 19 September 2007 Legislation that would have given detainees held by the United States the right to challenge their detention in U.S. courts has been blocked in the Senate by lawmakers arguing the measure would undermine...
By Deborah Block Washington, DC 05 May 2006 watch Civil Rights Crime report Members of the U.S. Congress are pushing for legislation that would call on the federal government to investigate the unsolv...