With a government eavesdropping law about to expire, Washington is awash in accusations over who's to blame. ...more

February 16, 2008

In a day of political brinkmanship, President Bush pressured the House on Thursday to finish a bill giving the government more leeway to eavesdrop on phone calls and e-mails of suspected terrorists. ...more

February 15, 2008

It's Government Intrusion Or Not John Boyle's simplistic and hyper-partisan view of the world is that Democrats are evil and Republicans are responsible for everything good. He makes the absurd assertion that the Democratic Party deserves no credit for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. I think that even he would concede that President John F. Kennedy, whose administration first put forth the bill, was a Democrat, as was his successor, Lyndon Johnson. ...more

January 2, 2008

SEBRING — In 2005, when Tim Mahoney entered the 16th District congressional race against Mark Foley, political prognosticators gave him no chance to win. As late as Sept. 12, 2006, even a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee poll had Mahoney trailing Foley 35 to 48 percent. But on Sept. 29, Foley resigned after a Web site revealed the congressman had been sending salacious e-mails to teenaged House pages. ...more

December 27, 2007

Democrats running Congress for the first time in more than a decade faltered at key points this year as they grudgingly passed important bills opposed by many, or most, of their House members. When Republicans were in charge, they generally avoided a similar fate. ...more

December 22, 2007

The House of Representatives approved the first increase in federal automobile fuel efficiency requirements in three decades Thursday as part of an energy bill that also repeals billions of dollars in oil company tax breaks and encourages the use of renewable fuels. ...more

December 7, 2007

House Democrats pushed through a $50 billion bill for the Iraq war Wednesday night that would require President Bush to start bringing troops home in coming weeks with a goal of ending combat by December 2008. ...more

November 15, 2007

House Democrats on Thursday accused Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice of grossly mismanaging diplomatic efforts in Iraq and concealing information from Congress, putting a visibly frustrated Rice on the defensive. ...more

October 26, 2007

House Democrats fell 13 votes short Wednesday in trying to overturn President Bush's veto of a $35 billion expansion of the government children's health insurance plan, prompting calls for new negotiations to decide the fate of the 10-year-old program. ...more

October 19, 2007

The Legislature's proposal for a property tax overhaul, once organized and neatly wrapped for quick approval, turned into a free-for-all Thursday that abruptly halted all official actions and pushed negotiations behind lawmakers' office doors. ...more

October 19, 2007