Congress

The Obama administration has been criticized for not pressing Congress for ratification with sufficient urgency.

Last week, the Senate Intelligence Committee voted to declassify the executive summary of its report about the CIA's detainee program. It's been more than five years since the committee …

Yes, you might not be able to get decent cable service or a good Wi-Fi signal but when it comes to Congress, Comcast is quite the attentive suitor.

Public support for a minimum wage hike is overwhelming, but lobbying by powerful corporations is tripping it up in Congress.

Attorney General Eric Holder said Friday that the Obama administration would be willing to work with Congress if lawmakers want to reschedule marijuana.

It's clear that some lawmakers' visions are out of step with the priorities of the American public on key issues such as job creation, education, and tax loopholes.

A select Senate committee is charged with overseeing CIA skullduggery to insure, among other things, that it stays within the stretched confines of the Constitution. The CIA …

It's time for our elected representatives to start following the principles laid out in our Constitution and help everyday Americans struggling to make ends meet.

Burt Wides, a former chief investigator for the Church Committee, who helped create the Senate and House intelligence committees, says these oversight bodies are now too entwined with the …

Our US Senate, in a 55-45 vote margin, struck down the Military Justice Improvement Act that would have taken reporting of sexual assault crimes out of the chain of …