washingtonpost.com - In CongressIn CongressU.S. Loan Proposed to Rescue Alaska Power Plant- May 6, 2005 Years ago, the federal government spent $117 million on an experimental "clean coal" power plant in Alaska designed to generate electricity with a minimum of air pollution -- but the project never got up and running.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12419-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_politics/congr... GOP Offers Probe of DeLay's Actions- May 6, 2005 House Republicans offer to open an investigation into overseas travel and other activities by Majority Leader Tom DeLay as part of an effort to resolve a three-month impasse with the Democrats that has kept the ethics committee from functioning.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5124-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_politics/congre... Lobbyist Paid for DeLay's Airfare- May 6, 2005 House ethics rules bar lawmakers from accepting travel and related expenses from registered lobbyists. The House Majority Leader has said that his expenses on a 2000 trip were paid by a nonprofit organization, and that the financial arrangements for it were proper.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12416-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_politics/congr... Majority Leader Denies Ethics Violations- May 6, 2005 Tom DeLay, in a written statement, says he broke no House rules in accepting trips abroad and implores supporters to accept his version of what he calls "the real story."http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64194-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_politics/congr... Cheney Enters Fray on Judicial Nominees- May 6, 2005 The White House intervened in Congress's bitterly partisan debate over federal judges, as Vice President Cheney vowed to break a tie vote if necessary to change Senate rules and ban filibusters of judicial nominees.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9751-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_politics/congre... Sen. Jeffords Says He Plans to Step Down- May 6, 2005 Jeffords (I-Vt.), whose abrupt defection from the Republican Party in May 2001 handed control of the Senate to the Democrats for 19 months, will not seek a fourth term in 2006 due to his and his wife's health problems.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4481-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_politics/congre... House Clears Energy Bill- May 6, 2005 The House yesterday approved a wide-ranging energy bill that would permit new drilling in Alaska and give producers billions of dollars of incentives.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7459-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_politics/congre... Panel Delays Vote on Bolton Nomination- May 6, 2005 The Senate Foreign Relations Committee unexpectedly put its decision on hold Tuesday to give it more time to investigate more allegations against Bush's nominee for U.N. ambassador.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1691-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_politics/congre... With the Plebes, Firing Broadsides, Dropping Depth Charges, Dodging a Bullet- May 6, 2005 When Sen. John McCain visited a first-year Naval Academy class yesterday, plebes had no idea that they had heard the exclusive details of a deal between a border-state Republican and a New England liberal Democrat that could alter the national debate over immigration. But then, that's McCain.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8051-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_politics/congre... House Energy Bill Increases Tax Breaks- May 6, 2005 The House this week will consider $8 billion in tax breaks targeted to the energy industry at a time when some of those companies are enjoying soaring profits from high consumer prices.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63958-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_politics/congr... |