Congress

The Senate has given final congressional approval to a scaled-down bill to explicitly ban members of Congress, the president and thousands of other federal workers from profiting from nonpublic information learned on the job.

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Republicans on a key House panel have muscled through a contentious GOP budget plan to sharply cut federal health care spending and safety-net programs like food stamps as the chief means to attack trillion-dollar-plus deficits.

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In order for Medicare to be saved, a key Republican lawmaker says, it has to be reformed. And Paul Ryan, who chairs the House Budget Committee, says "that's what we intend to do."

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A Democratic state senator from Montclair intends to run for Congress in the 10th District, joining Newark City Councilman Ron C. Rice, whose campaign told The Associated Press Friday that he will formally announce his candidacy next week.

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A new Gallup poll finds strong interest from the public in getting the President and Congress to take action on high gas prices.

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Showing that they can work together on occasion, House lawmakers have overwhelmingly passed legislation making it easier for small businesses and startups to raise capital to grow and hire new workers.

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A congressional aide says Democratic New Jersey congressman Donald M. Payne is being described by a family member as gravely ill.

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The Senate is refusing to roll back President Barack Obama's policy on contraception insurance -- specifically, the requirement that insurers cover the costs of birth control.

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The House has passed legislation to undercut a 2005 Supreme Court ruling that gives state and local governments eminent domain authority to seize private property for economic development projects.

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Relishing a political victory, President Barack Obama said Tuesday that Congress "did the right thing" by extending payroll tax cuts for millions of Americans.

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