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» Newsview: Bush Budget Contains Omissions, February 07, 2005 President Bush will propose a 3.1 percent pay raise for members of the armed forces and a 2.3 percent increase for civilian federal employees under the fiscal 2006 budget plan the White House will release on Monday.

» Planned Military Raise to Top Civilians', February 05, 2005 President Bush will propose a 3.1 percent pay raise for members of the armed forces and a 2.3 percent increase for civilian federal employees under the fiscal 2006 budget plan the White House will release on Monday.

» News Analysis: New wind in Washington blows ball, February 02, 2005 It used to be that a bipartisan barrage of Beltway backing for “democracy in the Middle East” meant something comforting for Israel: another show of solid U.S. support. Now it could mean profound change.

» CBO: US FY2006 Budget Deficit To Hit $337 Bln , January 26, 2005 WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--Under current policies, the U.S. government will amass a $337 billion annual budget deficit in fiscal year 2006, according to Congressional Budget Office estimates released Thursday.

» Area House Members Implore Bush to Support Pay Parity, January 25, 2005 Ten members of the Washington area delegation plan to send President Bush a letter today urging him to provide equal pay raises for civil service and military personnel in his fiscal 2006 budget proposal that goes to Congress in two weeks.

» GOP Shifts Gears on Ethics Rule, January 05, 2005 House Republicans opened a new session of Congress yesterday by pushing through a new rule curtailing the ways ethics investigations can be launched, a day after they retreated on two other ethics moves.

» House Ethics Inquiries to Be Less Likely, January 05, 2005 A new rule, backed by GOP leaders, would require the vote of a fellow party member before a lawmaker could be investigated.

» House votes to relax internal ethics rules, January 05, 2005 The House yesterday loosened its internal ethics guidelines by voting to make it more difficult for ethics probes to be launched against members of Congress.

» Hoyer Offers to Open Discussions on How Raises Are Determined , January 05, 2005 Rep. Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.), one of the architects of today's white-collar pay system for federal workers, told the Bush administration yesterday that he is ready to discuss a different way of setting annual pay raises.

» Party Unity Vote Study: Votes Echo Electoral Themes, December 11, 2004 Madison Avenue would call it “building brand identity.” In a tightly contested election year, Republicans and Democrats used the machinery of Congress and their members’ votes to polish their images with voters and distinguish themselves from the competition.

» Groups seek to address voting troubles, December 07, 2004 Despite President Bush's clear margin of victory in the 2004 presidential race, voting and civil rights advocates say the election did not go as smoothly as Americans might think.

» Workers will still receive 3.5 percent raise, December 03, 2004 Legislation still is on track to implement a 3.5 percent average pay raise for federal civilian workers in 2005, despite a White House proposal to hold the increase to 2.5 percent.

» EAC to Continue Pursuing Election Flaws, November 29, 2004 Meeting Tuesday for the first time since the Nov. 2 election, members of the Election Assistance Commission breathed a collective sigh of relief about the relatively smooth operation of this year’s Election Day — but they promised to do more in the coming year to improve the nation’s balloting system.

» Budget Critics Say Furor Over Tax Provision Highlights Big Flaws in Process, November 25, 2004 The hasty and haphazard completion of nine overdue fiscal 2005 spending bills raised new appeals from lawmakers that Congress figure out a better way to enact its annual budget.

» 3.5% Raise for Federal Civilian Workers Makes Spending Bill , November 21, 2004 Congressional negotiators reached agreement yesterday on a spending package that provides a 3.5 percent raise for federal civilian employees, more than double that sought by President Bush.

» House panel plans hearings on Nov. 2 voting problems, November 21, 2004 Problems at the polls and allegations of other irregularities in the Nov. 2 election are gaining serious attention in the nation's capital.

» Democrats Blast New GOP Rule, November 18, 2004 House Republicans changed their Conference rules Wednesday to allow indicted party leaders and committee chairmen an opportunity to remain in their posts, even as Democrats moved to toughen their own internal guidelines on the subject.

» House Republicans Act to Protect DeLay, November 18, 2004 Emboldened by their election success, House Republicans changed their rules yesterday to allow Majority Leader Tom DeLay (Tex.) to keep his post even if a grand jury indicts him, and Senate GOP leaders continued to weigh changing long-standing rules governing filibusters to prevent Democrats from blocking President Bush's most conservative judicial nominees.

» Analysis: Cracks in the GOP power facade, November 17, 2004 Although the Republican leadership in the House and Senate has been emboldened by the gains made in the Nov. 2 election, cracks are begging to show in the veneer of party invulnerability that GOP leaders sought to promote over the last two weeks.

» House Democrats Endorse Their Leadership, November 17, 2004 Despite losing seats Nov. 2, House Democratic leaders said Wednesday their caucus is energized and ready to confront the Republican majority in the new Congress.

» House Leadership Appears Largely Stable on Both Sides for 109th Congress, November 12, 2004 As the 108th Congress prepares to take its final votes, this also will be the week that the 109th Congress starts to take shape.

» Democrats Vow to Hold Bush Accountable, November 10, 2004 Congressional Democrats returned to Washington in a defiant mood yesterday, making no apologies for the campaign in which they lost congressional seats and the presidential race and vowing to hold President Bush accountable for his handling of the deficit, the Iraq war and other issues.

» In the House, both parties’ leaders pledge to maintain Jewish outreach , November 03, 2004 The Democratic and Republican whips in the U.S. House of Representatives have a lot in common when it comes to Jewish issues — such as bipartisan agreement on support for Israel and an understanding that neither party can take the Jewish vote for granted any longer.

» Hoyer's Lock on 5th District Likely to Continue , October 27, 2004 Steny Hoyer is standing on a playing field at Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School in Beltsville, exhorting a group of eighth graders to stay physically fit. He is, as ever, eloquent and impeccably dressed, not a sleek, silver hair out of place. With the thermometer pushing 80 degrees, he hasn't even rolled up his sleeves.

» Democratic Whip Lashes Out Against Kerry Film, October 14, 2004 House Democratic whip, Steny Hoyer, said 85 House Democrats signed a letter asking the FCC to investigate Sinclair Broadcasting over the anti-Kerry film without giving equal time to their candidate.

 

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