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As both the House and Senate adjourned for the Independence Day recess last week, it looked increasing unlikely they would agree on identical wording for an apology for slavery.

A House committee chairman with jurisdiction over the Homeland Security Department is urging DHS' Transportation Security Administration to get more involved in safeguarding personal data for about 165,000 people held by a defunct former partner in the Registered Traveler program.

The chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security has given the Transportation Security Administration until July 8 to explain how the agency plans to ensure the security of private data collected by a recently shuttered company that offered a registered traveler program.

Mississippi Congressman Bennie Thompson and four other democratic lawmakers are under investigation for possibly receiving improper gifts.

A veteran row crop and cattle and poultry farmer and a longtime aide to 2nd District U.S. Rep.

Michael Sullivan, a longtime farmer who helped manage the National Furniture Market in Tupelo, has been named Mississippi Farm Bureau's executive director.

Project 21 just issued a press release criticizing the Congressional Black Caucus's apparent plans to retaliate against the House Office of Congressional Ethics, which concluded that several CBC members should be investigated by the full Ethics Committee for alleged violations of gift rules.The release says: Project 21 Critical of Members of ...

The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday introduced three hazard-mitigation bills, which won praise from the Reinsurance Assn.

A disclaimer in a Senate apology for slavery that states that nothing in the resolution supports or authorizes reparations by the United States is causing dissension among several members of the Congressional Black Caucus and may prevent the two chambers from uniting on the measure.

So, in the meantime, they keep themselves busy by getting busy -- usually with women not their own wives .

The House ethics committee is investigating whether five Democratic lawmakers, including Michigan's Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, received improper gifts in travel to Caribbean conferences 2007 and 2008.

Written by CBS News investigative producer Laura Strickler The House Ethics Committee is now officially digging into two Caribbean trips taken by Congressmen Charles Rangel, D-NY, Carolyn Kilpatrick D-MI, Bennie Thompson, D-MS, Donald Payne D-NJ, and Delegate Donna Christensen D-VI. The trips were sponsored by a New York based non-profit ...

Already embroiled in an ethics probe now entering its tenth month, Rep. Charlie Rangel , chairman of the powerful Ways and Means Committee, received more bad news Wednesday night as the House ethics committee announced it would look into Caribbean trips taken by the veteran lawmaker and four other Democrats.

Steve Clark puts an arm around his wife Lana in the driveway of their home while in the background their garage sits destroyed in northwest Austin, Minn.

The Senate passed a resolution Thursday calling on Congress to officially apologize "to African-Americans on behalf of the people of the United States for the wrongs committed against them and their ancestors who suffered under slavery and Jim Crow laws." The resolution, which passed the Senate in time for Juneteenth , goes on to recognize "the ...

The amendment she introduced would have cut spending for the Commerce and Justice Departments, the Office of Science and Technology Policy and NASA by 5 percent.

A government watchdog group said it is "ironic and unseemly" that U.S. Rep. John Conyers led an impeachment action Friday on the House floor against a federal judge.

Gov. Haley Barbour said President Obama had opposed supplemental funds such as the more than $500 million Congress approved for Mississippi on Thursday, but state officials convinced the president it was critical for recovery.

The National Petrochemical & Refiners Association Thursday said that provisions in the proposed Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Act "will have a detrimental impact on national security and economic stability." The bill, introduced by Representative Bennie Thompson, a Democrat from Mississippi, is pending before the House Homeland Security and ...

The Senate passed a resolution Thursday calling on the U.S. to apologize officially for the enslavement and segregation of millions of African-Americans and to acknowledge "the fundamental injustice, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery and Jim Crow laws." The resolution, sponsored with little fanfare by Sen.