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They're known as "monuments to me," airports, bridges and courthouses named after the lawmakers who secured the federal funds to build them.

Profile No actual tyrant known to history has ever been guilty of one-hundredth of the crimes, massacres, and other atrocities attributed to the Deity in the Bible.

In the week since South Carolina's Republican Governor announced he had flown to Argentina to carry on an extra-marital affair, the broadcast morning and evening news shows have gone full bore on the scandal, cranking out 49 stories even in the midst of other major stories like Michael Jackson's death and the continuing repression in Iran.

Nineteen House Democrats wrote to Speaker Pelosi to say any health care plan must exclude coverage for abortion procedures or they won't vote for it.

Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee are charging the Obama administration with playing a political shell game to continue funding for a controversial project in the district of Rep.

A $1 million earmark secured by U.S. Pete Visclosky, D-1st, for the restoration of Good Fellow Lodge at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore remains intact, after an amendment introduced on the floor of the U.S. House specifically aimed at killing that earmark was defeated on Thursday.

Tuesday, June 23, 2009 10:50 PM EDT JOHNSTOWN - Republican businessman Tim Burns delivered a letter to Rep.

From the forthcoming CQ's Politics in America : Rep. Stephen F. Lynch, D-Mass., donated more than half his liver to his brother-in-law. Reps.

Sen. Saxby Chambliss and other foes of defense reform. - By Rachel Morris - Photo of Saxby Chambliss by flickr user Dizzy Girl used under a Creative Commons licence.

The greatest threat facing the U.S. is the possibility that the government of Pakistan will fall and the Taliban will somehow gain control of that nation's nuclear weapons, the chairman of the House defense appropriations subcommittee said.

The Obama administration may be willing to consider buying aerial refueling tankers from more than one company, the chairman of the House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee indicated on Wednesday.

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8. Ed Mitchell One of the Pennsylvania's most effective political spokesman, Mitchell has guided some of the state's most embattled Democrats through reelection.

When U.S. Rep. John Murtha was first elected to Congress in 1974, the preferred method of communication was traditional mail.

About $15 million in taxpayer funds went to repairs for little-used bridges in rural Wisconsin.

A bill passed this past week by the U.S. House Appropriations Committee includes an earmark that would provide $650,000 in federal money to Indiana County for upgrades to the emergency communication system.

House Republicans appear to have embarrassed the majority Democrats into an ethics investigation into the links between campaign contributions and what the more fastidious call "congressionally directed spending," but what most people know as earmarks.

Woe is Rep. Maxine Waters. How could David Obey do such a thing? From Roll Call : A plan by House Appropriations Chairman David Obey to ban a oemonuments to mea in this yeara s appropriations bills has been sharply criticized behind closed doors by a senior Democrat who wants to direct $1 million to an employment center in her district bearing her ...

Congress is expected to approve later this week spending $106 billion to help pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and control the spread of flu - but not before debating a ban on releasing of terrorism detainee abuse photos, aiding the International Monetary Fund and plotting an exit from Afghanistan.

In this Aug. 15. 2008 file photo, a U.S. C-17 military cargo plane, the type to be stationed permanently at a NATO air base at Papa, northwest of Budapest, Hungary, sits on the runway to be shown to local journalists.