In a coup for House Democrats, AARP will endorse sweeping health care overhaul legislation headed for a history-making floor vote, officials told The Associated Press on today. ...more

November 4, 2009

Democrats are still struggling to find a strategy that will let them push a health care overhaul through the Senate and fulfill President Barack Obama's goal of signing a bill this year. ...more

October 28, 2009

The Democratic-led House overwhelmingly approved a bill today to slap punishing taxes on big employee bonuses from AIG and other firms bailed out by taxpayers. The vote was 328-93. "We want our money back and we want our money back now for the taxpayers," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. ...more

March 19, 2009

WASHINGTON - Angry lawmakers prepared to levy heavy taxes on employee bonuses at insurance giant American International Group Inc. and at other companies that received big U.S. government bailouts. ...more

March 19, 2009

By midnight Tuesday, millions of conservatives probably will believe that the nation, foundering on the reefs of sin, is ruined. And millions of "progressives," emboldened to embrace truth in labeling by again calling themselves liberals, probably will have decided that Heaven is at hand, the nation revived like a flower in an April shower. ...more

November 2, 2008

Wearing a flag lapel pin, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama emphasized his patriotism and support for a strong, humane military Monday, while New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton implored West Virginians to sustain her hopes of somehow denying him the Democratic presidential nomination. ...more

May 13, 2008

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday called for the resignation of the head of the Consumer Product Safety Commission after the recall of millions of Chinese-made toys. ...more

October 31, 2007