Lori Montgomery

House Democratic leaders pushed with mounting confidence Friday toward a historic vote on expanding the nation's health care system, and President Barack Obama joined an intense last-minute lobbying campaign to...

Against a backdrop of rising unemployment, Senate Democrats struck a hard-won deal with a handful of Republican moderates to scale back spending in a massive economic stimulus bill, virtually guaranteeing...

Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked a proposal to tax the windfall profits of the nation's biggest oil companies and eliminate some of the firms' tax breaks, rejecting Democratic claims that...

Henry Cisneros has been an impassioned pioneer on America's troubled urban frontier, the first housing secretary to avidly pursue the explosive goal of integrating the poor into mainstream society. But...