Stationery from Sen. Marco Rubio found in Missouri store

Kansas City lawyer Dale Ingram found a bargain — and a mystery. Earlier this month, Ingram was shopping at Cargo Largo, a discount store in Independence offering salvaged merchandise such as clothing, home goods and, in Ingram’s case, office supplies. | 05/14/12 07:20:17 By - Dave Helling

House budget fight frames partisan lines for elections' big issue

After hours of sharp, partisan debate Thursday that’s likely to be echoed around the nation this election year, the Republican-dominated House of Representatives approved, with no Democratic support, a federal budget plan that would slash popular domestic programs while sparing defense. | 05/10/12 17:47:51 By - By David Lightman

House bill aims to keep C-130s in Texas

After three months of trying to persuade the Air Force not to transfer eight C-130 Hercules aircraft from Fort Worth to Great Falls, Mont., a House subcommittee appears ready to try to stop the move with legislation. | 05/08/12 07:30:47 By - Chris Vaughn

Study: Kansas congressional delegation is most conservative

The most conservative congressional delegation in America? Take a bow, Kansas. It isn't even close. | 05/07/12 07:08:05 By - Steve Kraske and Dave Helling

House passes GOP bill to keep student loan rates low, but Democrats will kill it

Rates on popular student loans would be barred from doubling as scheduled on July 1 under Republican-authored legislation that the House of Representatives passed Friday – but the change would be funded by slashing money from a fund for disease prevention and public health. | 04/27/12 17:49:07 By - By David Lightman

Senate votes to renew Violence Against Women Act

Congressional lawmakers from both political parties agree, and so does the White House: It’s important to renew the Violence Against Women Act, an 18-year-old law that pours resources into efforts to help victims of domestic violence. But there are sharp disagreements about exactly what the new law should include, arguments that illustrate how election-year politics has colored consideration of a law that usually gets enthusiastic bipartisan support. | 04/26/12 18:13:46 By - By David Lightman

California Sen. Feinstein 'not terribly worried' about campaign fund loss

Sen. Dianne Feinstein said Tuesday that she's not distressed by losing millions in campaign cash at the hands of treasurer Kinde Durkee, an act she termed "a big betrayal." | 04/11/12 06:55:44 By - Torey Van Oot

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio proposes a Republican DREAM Act

A few weeks ago, Daniela Pelaez visited Washington. A valedictorian at North Miami Senior High, the 18-year-old had just learned she no longer faced deportation, thanks in part to congressional intervention in her immigration case. She visited the nation’s capital the same week a Fox News Latino poll found Hispanic voters favor President Barack Obama six-to-one over any of the Republican presidential hopefuls. | 04/09/12 07:03:22 By - Erika Bolstad

Senate's Mitch McConnell tells Obama to 'back off' Supreme Court

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell charged Thursday that President Barack Obama had "crossed a dangerous line" when he commented on the Supreme Court's deliberations over the 2010 federal health care law. | 04/05/12 12:32:27 By - David Lightman

S.C. Rep. Clyburn compares voter ID laws to Jim Crow era

U.S. House Assistant Democratic Leader Jim Clyburn and voting-rights advocates warned Wednesday that laws in South Carolina and other states could disenfranchise millions of Americans in the November presidential elections. | 04/05/12 11:37:17 By - James Rosen

Missouri Rep. Cleaver calls for end to 'vigilante justice'

U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver has introduced a House resolution condemning "vigilante justice" in the killing of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin, and urging states to repeal so-called Stand Your Ground laws. | 04/05/12 07:10:39 By - Dave Helling

Fla. Rep. Connie Mack calls Paul Ryan's budget 'a joke'

Criticizing the Republican House budget isn't just for Democrats, anymore. Republican Congressman and Senate candidate Connie Mack called the budget plan, drafted by fellow Rep. Paul Ryan, a "joke" during a weekend Orlando Tea Party forum. Mack, who missed the Ryan plan vote in Washington last week while he was fundraising in Florida, later said through a spokesman that he would have voted for it anyway. | 04/05/12 07:03:21 By - Marc Caputo

Texas Rep. Kay Granger presses Air Force on C-130 plans

U.S. Rep. Kay Granger told Air Force Secretary Michael Donley in a meeting Thursday that if the Air Force does not scrap its plan to move a fleet of C-130 transport aircraft from Fort Worth to Montana or provide more justification, she will work to stop its implementation legislatively. | 03/30/12 07:29:05 By - Chris Vaughn

Alaska Sen. Begich breaks with Democrats, Obama on oil tax breaks

President Barack Obama says Congress should end billions of dollars in tax breaks for the global oil companies, but Alaska Sen. Mark Begich has broken with nearly every other Senate Democrat to oppose the idea. | 03/28/12 06:48:44 By - Sean Cockerham

Senate Republicans block Export-Import Bank vote

Hundreds of millions of dollars in financing that helps N.C. companies export products overseas could be at risk after Senate Republicans blocked an attempt by Democrats to reauthorize financing for the U.S. Export-Import Bank. | 03/22/12 07:33:17 By - Franco Ordoñez

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