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In his case for restoring Republicans to the Congressional majority, Representative John A. Boehner unveiled a five-point plan to turn the economy around.

In their bid to recapture the House, Republicans hope to mine Democratic seats from districts that picked John McCain over Barack Obama in the last presidential race.

Ms. Lebrón blazed her way to notoriety as she led three other Puerto Rican nationalists in an attack on the United States House of Representatives on March 1, 1954.

Representative Maxine Waters will face charges of misusing her office and is expected to contest the claims in a House trial.

Members of the House ethics committee accused Representative Charles B. Rangel of violating a ban on accepting gifts and other trangressions.

President Obama planned to spur a commercial market for the launching of people into space and direct the agency to continue developing its own rocket.

The president’s successes in areas like financial reform pose a paradox. He is winning on Capitol Hill, but losing with voters.

Every Congress seems to produce a designated pest, and for this White House, he is Representative Darrell Issa.

Questions by members of both parties paint a Congress that seems to want the Supreme Court to save it from any senseless laws it might pass.

The bill would include $10 billion to help school districts avoid educator layoffs, paying for the effort with $800 million in cuts to several of President Obama’s education initiatives.

In his first speech devoted to the disputed issue since taking office, the president aimed for a middle ground.

The Obama administration and Congressional Democrats proposed phasing out the program as a way to win Republican support for the financial overhaul package.

President Obama re-established command and control of his office this week in dealing with BP, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal and the financial overhaul bill.

President Obama re-established command and control of his office this week in dealing with BP, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal and the financial overhaul bill.

President Obama called the leak in the Gulf of Mexico “the worst environmental disaster America has ever faced.” But is the description accurate?

By choosing to speak to the nation for the first time from the Oval Office, the president is conveying the gravity of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.