Jo Bonner News

November 12 - It's a double whammy of bad economic news. Bayou La Batre is already facing trouble with possible changes in oystering and now the announcement of layoffs at Horizon Shipbuilding.

South Alabama is in a good position to recover from difficult economic times, but the region and country still face challenges in the near future, U.S. Rep.

Austal has officially opened its new state-of-the-art Modular Manufacturing Facility , giving its Mobile, Alabama shipyard the ability to build up to three 100 meter-plus vessels each year.

Julius Steel cleans up raw oyster shells from the oyster bar at Pascal's Manale restaurant in New Orleans on October 23, 2009.

U.S. Rep. Jo Bonner, R-Mobile, at the podium. Gov. Bob Riley, Mobile Mayor Sam Jones and Bonner represented Alabama during the official dedication of Austal's new, $200 million module manufacturing facility Monday morning.

H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act. Did Big Insurance get to them? From President Obama's address on health care to a joint session of Congress September 9, 2009 "So let me set the record straight here.

Republican opposition was nearly unanimous. The 220-215 vote cleared the way for the Senate to begin debate on the issue that has come to overshadow all others in Congress.

The Alabama and Mississippi congressional delegations presented an almost united front against the Democratic health care bill approved late Saturday night as only one member, Rep.

A panel that investigates allegations of unethical behavior by members of Congress has cleared U.S. Rep.

By Paul Kane The ethics committee is not investigating Rep. Jane Harman , whose conversation with an Israeli operative four years ago drew scrutiny from the Justice Department and for a time from the committee.

WASHINGTON Last week, The Washington Post managed to surreptitiously stumble across a document revealing that several members of the House Defense Appropriations subcommittee are being investigated by the House Ethics Committee.

National Democrats are a long way from those heady days in 2006 when U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, promised to "drain the swamp" of corruption on Capitol Hill if voters gave them control of Congress.

A confidential weekly report of the House ethics committee found its way to an Internet site in a case of "cyber-hacking," the committee's chairwoman said Thursday.

A confidential weekly report of the House ethics committee found its way to an Internet site in a case of "cyber-hacking," the committee's chairwoman said Thursday.

A leaked document shows that House ethics investigators are probing the activities of nearly three dozen lawmakers - an ethical dust storm that will empower the Republicans and could imperil efforts to get health care reform through the House next week.

The accidental disclosure of a House ethics investigation has kicked up quite a fuss on Capitol Hill as it turns out that more than 30 congressman and aides are under investigation.

Seven of the lawmakers - four not previously known - serve on a defense appropriations subcommittee that divvies up money for Pentagon contractors.

A confidential weekly report of the House ethics committee found its way to an Internet site in a case of "cyber-hacking," the committee's chairwoman said Thursday.

House ethics investigators have been scrutinizing the activities of more than 30 lawmakers and several aides in inquiries about issues including defense lobbying and corporate influence peddling, according to a confidential House ethics committee report prepared in July.

A confidential weekly report of the House ethics committee found its way to an Internet site in a case of "cyber-hacking," the committee's chairwoman said Thursday.The report from last July contains a summary of the committee's work at the time, but Rep.