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Senate Democrats vote to bring health bill to floor for debate

After days of indecision, the two final Democratic holdouts -- Sens. Blanche Lincoln (Ark.) and Mary Landrieu (La.) -- voted with the rest of the 60 members of their caucus to support a procedural motion to begin debate. Though strictly parliamentary, ...

From SHAILAGH MURRAY AND PAUL KANE, The Washington Post,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Blanche Lincoln,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Barack Obama,  Mary Landrieu,  Charles E. Schumer

Ethics panel admonishes Burris

Updated 12:33 p.m. Sen. Roland W. Burris (D-Ill.) has been admonished by the Senate ethics committee for his public comments about his appointment last December to the body. In a three-page "public letter of qualified admonition" issued Friday, the ...

From PAUL KANE, The Washington Post,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Senate,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Congress,  Federal Bureau of Investigation,  Roland Burris

Lawmakers seek more help from administration for Fort Hood investigations

A bipartisan group of senators began a concerted push Wednesday to get more cooperation from the Obama administration in its reviews of the Fort Hood shootings, which left 13 dead and a raft of questions about information-sharing among intelligence ...

From PAUL KANE, The Washington Post,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  White House,  Joe Lieberman,  Senate Judiciary Committee,  Patrick Leahy

Senators press Ft. Hood probes

In addition to the public hearings that Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.) is set to begin Thursday, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) demanded Wednesday that his panel receive the results of a White House review of agency ...

From PAUL KANE, The Washington Post,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: White House,  Barack Obama,  Joe Lieberman,  Senate Judiciary Committee,  Patrick Leahy

In wake of breach, ban on file-sharing software proposed in House

Weeks after an embarrassing security breach revealed details of dozens of ethics investigations, a House committee chairman introduced legislation Tuesday that would forbid federal employees to use popular file-sharing technology that was involved in ...

From PAUL KANE, The Washington Post,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Edolphus Towns,  Office of Congressional Ethics,  Washington Post Company,  Stephen Breyer

Republicans push for immediate Hill inquiries on Fort Hood

House and Senate Republicans, emerging from the most detailed briefings given to Congress since the Nov. 5 shootings killed 13 at the central Texas Army post, said delaying congressional investigations would put off legislative efforts to give military ...

From PAUL KANE, The Washington Post,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  White House,  U.S. Congress,  Senate Judiciary Committee,  Peter Hoekstra

Democrats debate course following election losses

Off-year elections can be notoriously unreliable as predictors of the future, but as a window on how the political landscape might have changed in the year since President Obama won the White House, Tuesday's Republican victories in Virginia and New ...

From MICHAEL D. SHEAR AND PAUL KANE, The Washington Post,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Democratic Party,  White House,  U.S. Republican Party,  John D. Rockefeller IV

Document sheds light on ethics probe in Congress

After years of criticism that congressional lawmakers were reluctant to investigate their colleagues, the disclosure in recent days of a sensitive document from the House ethics committee offers the contradictory portrait of a panel actively pursuing a ...

From PAUL KANE, The Washington Post,  1 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Republican Party,  Nancy Pelosi,  Charles B. Rangel,  John P. Murtha

House ethics panel reviewed 2005 Harman conversation

Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from the site. Additionally, entries that are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed. ...

From PAUL KANE, The Washington Post,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Jane Harman,  U.S. Department of Justice,  Washington Post Company,  National Security Agency,  Federal Bureau of Investigation

Now It's Sen. Harry Reid's Turn

Reid, the soft-talking son of a hard-rock miner, must now weave together different health-care proposals from the finance and health committees with similar broad goals of insuring millions of uninsured Americans in a way that does not raise the ...

From PAUL KANE, The Washington Post,  2 Oct 2009

Related Topics: White House,  U.S. Senate,  U.S. Republican Party,  George W. Bush,  U.S. Democratic Party

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