Senate Republicans blocked a proposal Tuesday to tax the windfall profits of the largest oil companies, despite pleas by Democratic leaders to use the measure to address America's anger over $4 a gallon gasoline. ...more

June 11, 2008

The sudden, shocking increase in the price of oil is a market failure that resembles the damaging excesses of the dot-com bubble, Enron scandal and housing meltdown. ...more

June 2, 2008

President Bush appealed Saturday for swift congressional action on an economic rescue initiative and an electronic surveillance law that soon expires. ...more

January 27, 2008

The U.S. government has overcharged Americans by more than $100 million a year in its fee for new passports, according to cost figures uncovered by congressional investigators and analyzed by two senators and The Associated Press. ...more

November 3, 2007

U.S.-bound trucks from Mexico hit a roadblock in Washington on Tuesday as senators stymied Bush administration plans to allow Mexican 18-wheelers to begin traveling freely into the United States as part of a 13-year-old trade agreement. ...more

September 12, 2007