Sheila Jackson-Lee News

Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Congress engaged in procedural battles and traded allegations on Wednesday as lawmakers attempted to conclude work on legislative priorities near the end of the congressional session.

Last year, while my wife and I waited in line at the Lied Center before President George H.W. Bush's appearance there, a diminutive woman got in the long line behind us.

Some members of Congress aren't taking the government's word there is no security threat from the accidental Internet leak of its airports screening manual.

Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee insisted today that Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Connecticut independent, should not be allowed to block Senate passage of comprehensive health care reform.

Action has been taken against "the individuals involved" in posting a sensitive Transportation Security Administration screening manual on the Internet, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told members of Congress on Wednesday.

SECRETARY CLINTON: Thank you very, very much. I am deeply touched by Moeen Qureshi's too kind introduction, but I think I'll ask him to introduce me wherever I go from now on.

The federal judiciary is pushing back against members of the U.S. House who are considering revisions to the recusal process for judges.

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus called on President Obama Friday to address the skyrocketing unemployment rate facing minorities -- especially African-Americans and Latinos -- and greater economic conditions plaguing low-income communities.

National Journal revealed its Insiders Poll this afternoon on MSNBC's " Andrea Mitchell Reports." The announcement was followed by a sneak peak in Hotline On Call.

Did you know that until Barack Obama was elected president, minorities in America did not get involved in politics? I, for one, did not know that.

Dec. 10, 2009 - The House last night began debate on H.R. 4173, the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, but only after bill managers agreed to allow consideration of two key amendments - one limiting the weight of state law and another to significantly alter the proposal for a Consumer Financial Protection Agency.

The Transportation Security Administration Tuesday said it is launching a "full review" of an incident in which the agency posted on the Internet a sensitive manual outlining screening procedures for law enforcement officers, diplomats, prisoners, federal air marshals and others.

The Virginia couple who slipped through White House security and shook hands with President Obama will invoke the Fifth Amendment, which protects against self-incrimination, if subpoenaed to testify to Congress, according to a letter from the couple's lawyer.

The House recently passed a resolution stressing the importance of enhancing rail and mass transit security, according to the American Public Transportation Association .

Thousands of people are working together in an effort to replace every single member of Congress.

Mark Sullivan, the head of the Secret Service, testified Thursday at a hearing held by the House Homeland Security Committee.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is greeted Wednesday by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, at the conclusion of a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on U.S. strategy in Afghanistan, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Houston Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee wants the Virginia hunt-country couple that allegedly gate-crashed last week's state dinner to "receive the fullest penalty the law allows" - including jail time "if warranted." Chronicle photo Rep.

"At present the United States has the unenviable distinction of being the only great industrial nation without compulsory health insurance," the Yale economist Irving Fisher said in a speech in December.

C.B. Black's wife, Loretta, lured him downtown Saturday for a surprise ceremony, where he was awarded replacement medals for those lost in a fire nearly 40 years ago.