Washington Bureau

A $5 billion boost to the 3-decade-old Weatherization Assistance Program contained in the stimulus bill passed by Congress could help caulk and seal hundreds of thousands more homes, but critics...

An effort to curb executive pay at the nation's most troubled banks inserted at the last minute into Congress' mammoth economic stimulus bill has sparked an outcry from financial services...

A proposed Anaheim-to-Las Vegas high-speed train became a hot topic as Congress prepared to pass the economic recovery bill. But not a word about the train appears in the 1,000-plus...

John Peeler, an unemployed computer technician in South Carolina, may soon get health insurance for his wife and three children. Four months after being laid off, he is one of...

Upending Washington's entrenched ways of doing business is proving tougher than President Barack Obama may have assumed. The $787 billion stimulus bill served as a test case. During the campaign,...

A $7.2 billion provision in the economic stimulus bill to extend high-speed Internet service to rural and other underserved areas has been hailed in Congress as the 21st Century equivalent...

A $5 billion boost to the 3-decade-old Weatherization Assistance Program contained in the stimulus bill passed by Congress could help caulk and seal hundreds of thousands more homes, but critics...

Just about everyone connected with the $789 billion economic stimulus bill agrees that it won't begin to fix the nation's broken economy overnight. But just how soon will Americans begin...

With Congress set to vote on a compromise $789 billion stimulus bill negotiated this week, riders on Chicago Transit Authority's Red and Blue Lines may see their commute times shorten...

It was just Monday when President Obama told a prime-time news conference that appointing three Republicans to his Cabinet reflected an "unprecedented" commitment to bipartisanship. But by Thursday, with the...