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In 2006, the Speaker of the House pledged that she would run the "most honest, ethical and open Congress, ever." In 2009, the story is far different.

San Antonio - FBI Director Robert Mueller says the bureau is investigating whether a radical Islamic imam in Yemen 'had been encouraging' Ft.

Although not on the front burner, the effort to renew the federal government's domestic surveillance powers has Democrats grappling with a handful of dicey issues, causing some lawmakers to acknowledge that Congress might have to pass a short-term extension to buy more time.

In a victory for President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed landmark health care legislation Saturday night to expand health coverage to tens of millions who lack it and place new restrictions on the insurance industry.

Kinky Friedman wants us to believe he's one of us. Friedman, who is running in the 2010 Democratic primary after finishing fourth out of four major candidates in the 2006 governor's race with a little more than 12 percent of the vote, said the fight between Perry and Hutchison will benefit the Democrats.

An eleventh-hour visit to Capitol Hill by President Barack Obama, a compromise on reproductive rights and provisions on accountability helped sway undecided Texas Democrats to vote for a historic health care bill that passed by a slim margin late Saturday.

While Pedro was letting all the honest, hardworking people of the world down last night, I was typing away at this meshugena hotel computer so that the world might enjoy my election wrap-up from the Daily Beast, and that's here .

Republican activists opposed to the health care bill unveiled by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi picketed Tuesday in front of the Texas offices of two Democratic lawmakers who face GOP challengers next year.

When it came to divulging basic information, it was Richard Nixon's administration that became infamous for the phrase, and practice, of "modified, limited hangout." Now the Obama administration has abandoned all but the "limited" part.

In September 1994, after leaving the Steelers for the Chicago Bears, fullback Merril Hoge suffered a concussion, the first of his career.

A White House report out Friday claims 640,329 jobs have been created or saved under President Barack Obama's stimulus plan, including 19,571 jobs in Texas and 973 in San Antonio.

With Texas facing its most competitive U.S. Senate race in a decade, federal campaign finance reports are currently favoring the Democratic hopefuls.

The United States government may finally be on the verge of looking into brain injuries suffered by pro football players.

A House committee chairman said Wednesday he'll seek records on NFL head injuries from the players union, the NCAA , high schools and medical researchers, to better understand football's health risks.

ASSOCIATED PRESS Four Republican lawmakers - Rep. Darrell Issa of California, Rep.

The government's legal aid program for the poor has agreed to recover taxpayer money that it spent inappropriately on a decorative Italian-stone wall, but lawmakers in Congress are now pressing for an investigation into new whistleblower concerns about the program.

When U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials decided to remove the street-level immigration-enforcement authority granted to the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, it looked like the beginning of the end for Sheriff Joe Arpaio's controversial measures.

State and local involvement in immigration-law enforcement is essential these days, as foreign nationals bent on terrorism remain a looming threat, as Mexican drug cartels and other international crime syndicates extend their reach into American communities, and as illegal workers increasingly resort to identity fraud to stay employed in scarce ...

A new policy introduced by the Obama administration Monday restricts the federal government's authority to prosecute medicinal marijuana patients and sanctioned suppliers.

Over the past couple of weeks, the White House has piled on the Fox News Channel, with a trio of high-ranking administration officials publicly criticizing it, followed by words from President Barack Obama himself about Fox News and topped off with the White House attempting to exclude Fox from the White House press pool.