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» US Lawmakers Call London Attacks 'Cowardly,' 'Barbaric' , July 07, 2005
U.S. Congressional leaders Thursday called the suspected terrorist attacks on London commuters earlier in the day "cowardly" and "barbaric". The U.S. Congress is in a week-long recess, but congressmen and senators were quick to react to the attacks through their press offices.

» Letter From House Democrats to President Bush, June 29, 2005
We are writing to request that you submit a FY 2005 supplemental funding request adding at least $1.3 billion to address the shortfall in veterans’ health care funding that your Administration has identified.

» Talk of Social Security’s Solvency Gets Diluted as GOP Pushes Personal Accounts, June 28, 2005
The idea of securing Social Security’s solvency has been relegated to a sideshow as congressional Republicans focus on a proposal to create individual accounts from the program’s surplus.

» GOP Sounded the Alarm But Didn't Respond to It, June 24, 2005
For six months, Republicans have traveled the country as fiscal Paul Reveres, sounding the alarm about the coming collapse of Social Security.

» Grassley not giving up on personal accounts, June 24, 2005
The idea of creating personal accounts for U.S. workers' Social Security taxes won't be axed until President Bush declares it dead, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles Grassley of Iowa said Wednesday.

» House Won't Cut Public Broadcasting Funds, June 24, 2005
Public broadcasters turned back an effort to slash their federal subsidies by $100 million, but scores of education, labor and health programs still face cuts in the House.

» Panel wants equal pay raises for military, civilian employees, June 24, 2005
A key House committee reversed President Bush's fifth attempt to give unequal raises to military and civilian employees in a voice vote this week - a decision that the rest of Congress and the president likely will uphold.

» Bipartisanship on Social Security Lacking, June 23, 2005
Letter to the Editor of the Washington Post from Steny Hoyer and Nancy Pelosi

» Proposed federal anti-drug cuts decried, June 23, 2005
Local law enforcement officials decried Thursday huge budget cuts proposed by the Bush administration to a national network of drug-interdiction task forces, including one that provided more than $12 million to the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area this year.

» Equal Raise for Civil Service Workers Sails Through House Panel, June 22, 2005
The House Appropriations Committee yesterday approved a 3.1 percent pay raise next year for civil service employees, continuing a long-standing practice of providing a raise equal to that planned for the military.

 

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