Former White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales misled Congress when he claimed the CIA in 2002 approved information that ended up in the 2003 State of the Union speech about Iraq's alleged effort to buy uranium for its nuclear weapons program, a House committee said today. ...more

December 18, 2008

Rep. Henry Waxman - a liberal ally of Speaker Nancy Pelosi - has wrested the chairmanship of the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee from veteran Rep. John Dingell when the new Congress convenes in January. ...more

November 20, 2008

The now-bankrupt investment bank Lehman Brothers arranged millions in bonuses for fired executives as it pleaded for a federal lifeline, lawmakers learned Monday, as Congress began investigating what went so wrong on Wall Street to prompt a $700 billion government bailout. ...more

October 6, 2008

Barclays PLC will unveil a plan to acquire all or part of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.'s investment banking and trading operations, a person close to the talks said Tuesday. ...more

September 17, 2008

When the Army last year awarded a contract worth up to nearly $300 million to a tiny Miami Beach munitions dealer to supply ammunition to Afghanistan's security forces, it overlooked a very checkered past. ...more

June 25, 2008

A veteran Republican lawmaker called on Office of Special Counsel chief Scott Bloch to resign Wednesday , one day after nearly two dozen FBI agents raided agency headquarters and carted off boxes of documents and equipment that officials said were related to a probe of Bloch's activities. ...more

May 8, 2008

Is it too late to make changes in the baseball schedule? Can they just play one game and hold 162 of these hilarious congressional hearings? ...more

February 14, 2008

Roger Clemens spoke under oath for about five hours to congressional lawyers Tuesday, then said he told them he did not use performance-enhancing drugs. ...more

February 6, 2008

New Rays infielder Willy Aybar has been jailed in the Dominican Republic since late last week and reportedly is facing domestic violence charges. ...more

February 5, 2008

Former Yankees second baseman Chuck Knoblauch agreed Monday to talk to a House committee investigating drug use in baseball, and the session was postponed until later this week. ...more

January 29, 2008