On Nov. 6, a group of Nobel Prize-winning scientists sent an open letter to the U.S. Congress in support of the Federal Research Public Access Act.

Conservative opponents of the Obama administration and a Democrat-controlled Congress have taken the battle to the nursery schools of the nation.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says that she has read the entire health care bill - now that it has passed in the House. Meanwhile, Republicans pushed their alternative ideas.

DAVAO CITY – Cezar Mancao II, a former police superintendent who implicated former President Joseph Estrada, a convicted plunderer, in the Dacer-Corbito double murder, may just become the country’s newest lawmaker after the 2010 elections.

With a final vote of 220-212, the House of Representatives passed a historic health care bill with a stated intent of providing quality affordable health care to all Americans.

Only one percent of Americans can claim to be millionaires, yet 44 percent of members of Congress are millionaires according to the Center for Responsive Politics. CRP argues that more transparency in financial disclosure requirements is needed.

Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee Dave Camp raised concerns on the health care bill's ability to impose civil and criminal penalties on Americans who do not comply with the mandate on taking up insurance coverage.

Even before the polls opened on Tuesday, pundits and spinners were managing election-night expectations. The pros of politics and journalism can read the polls as well as the rest of us.

Passed on November 5th, the bill extends unemployment benefits up to twenty additional weeks and the new homebuyer tax credit to contracts signed by April 30 and completed by June 30.

A Senate environment committee approved climate change legislation without Republican support. Republicans boycotted the committee due to concerns of cost and wanting more analysis of the legislation.

In what is being hailed as a historic moment, German Chancellor Angela Merkel addressed both houses of the U.S. Congress on Tuesday, speaking on such subjects as Iran and Afghanistan, and appealing for U.S. cooperation in fighting climate change.

Labor Day, by an act of Congress, is the official end of summer. Our kitchen calendar says summer ends September 21. But all of us kids know Halloween is the real end of summer.

A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal polls show the Democrats picking up ground they had lost last month when dealing with the question: Who would you rather see control congress?

The international movement to provide the United Nations (UN) with unprecedented power and influence on world affairs has found a seemingly innocuous, but deceptive train to ride.

MANILA - All indications point to the observation that President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, expected by her political rivals to be swarmed with legal suits after she finishes her term in June 2010, to run for a Congress seat in her hometown of Pampanga.

A bill introduced in the U.S. Congress targets tax cheaters and the banks who help them. It is estimated that the U.S. loses $100 billion annually to offshore tax evasion. The bill, introduced and supported by Democrats, is not supported by Republicans.

White House Counsel Greg Craig said, according to Republican Maine Senator Susan Collins, that the administration will keep the President's newly appointed 18 czars from testifying before Congress.

As health care reform proposals for public options circulate among House and Senate members, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi dismisses the notion that mandates are unconstitutional.

The U.S. Senate passed a hate crimes bill that broadens the current definition of federal hate crimes. The bill was passed on Oct. 8 in the House. President Obama has "promised" to sign it. Republicans and social conservatives oppose the legislation.

The latest poll conducted by The Washington Post and ABC News suggests 57 percent of Americans are in favor of a public insurance option.