If you get a pay envelope, Uncle Sam's about to put a little something extra in it. Then he wants you to go out and spend, spend, spend. ...more

January 25, 2008

Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke endorsed government efforts to stimulate the economy Thursday, as congressional leaders and the Bush administration moved closer to agreement on a plan. ...more

January 18, 2008

President Bush vetoed legislation Wednesday that would have expanded government-provided health insurance for children, his second slap-down of a bipartisan effort in Congress to dramatically increase funding for the popular program. ...more

December 13, 2007

In September 2002, four members of Congress met in secret for a first look at a unique CIA program designed to wring vital information from reticent terrorism suspects in U.S. custody. For more than an hour, the bipartisan group, which included future House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was given a virtual tour of the CIA's overseas detention sites and the harsh techniques interrogators had devised to try to make their prisoners talk. ...more

December 9, 2007

President Bush said Saturday that Democratic leaders in Congress should celebrate Veterans Day by finally passing a spending bill covering programs for veterans. ...more

November 11, 2007

President Bush on Saturday signed a bill to prevent a government shutdown, but not without complaint. ...more

September 30, 2007

A judge on Friday denied a request to release a teenager whose arrest in the beating of a white classmate sparked this week's civil rights protest in Louisiana. ...more

September 22, 2007