Control of the U.S. Senate increasingly appears to hang on the fate of an unlikely trio of Democratic incumbents who were elected along with Bill Clinton in 1992, hail from libe...

September 1, 2010 Cap and trade may be dead, but a proposal for wind and solar energy mandates is making a comeback in Congress.

Lawmakers retreated to their districts i...

U.S. Chamber of Commerce leaders are introducing Labor Day this week with a Thursday discussion on the policy issues they say are hobbling the job market.

Among the topi...

Democrats are trying to keep control of Congress by scaring the wig off grandma with a phantom GOP plot against Social Security. That is not news. Social Security scare tactics ...

Jim Wordsworth, who owns JR's Stockyards Inn in Tysons Corner and several local catering businesses, is in the top tax bracket and therefore will be subject to a hefty increase ...

On Thursday, some of the country's most respected environmental groups - in the midst of their biggest political fight in two decades - sent a group of activists to Milwaukee wi...

It’s going to be at least five days until Republicans will know their GOP nominee for Senate in Alaska.

In what might be one of the biggest upsets of the entire el...

Top Democrats are growing markedly more pessimistic about holding the House, privately conceding that the summertime economic and political recovery they were banking on will no...

With lawmakers off campaigning, transportation groups have begun their own campaigns to press Congress to complete its overdue work on a multi-year surface transportation bill.<...

The leaders of the AFL-CIO and the Service Employees International Union have agreed to coordinate spending millions of dollars in the midterm elections to support pro-union can...

At times subtle, at times loud, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is spending record amounts on lobbying and in election battlegrounds, elbowing into the nation's politics in unprece...

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is firing back at President Barack Obama’s renewed call to pass a campaign-finance reform bill before the November election.

Chamber V...

Eight months after he called for action on a string of stalled free-trade deals, President Obama is battling fierce opposition from his own party and concerns over a rising trad...

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is challenging in federal appeals court the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases.

The challenge ca...

Senator Patty Murray, Democrat of Washington, moved a step closer toward a fourth term on Tuesday by advancing past the primary in a race that could be pivotal in the battle for...