Congress

With health care street heat, progressives blunt teabaggers

March 17, 2010 By Bruce Bostick

Eyewitness report from a raucus demonstration on health care reform in Columbus, Ohio.

Criminal justice reform takes step forward

March 16, 2010 By Joe Sims

Small, but significant, victories are being made to reduce inequalities in criminal justice system.

Obama in Strongsville: It takes courage

March 15, 2010 By Rick Nagin

STRONGSVILLE, Ohio -- Speaking to a boisterous crowd of 800 in suburban Cleveland here, President Barack Obama made an impassioned appeal for health care reform.

Bipartisan Senate immigration bill looks like a bitter pill

March 15, 2010 By Emile Schepers

Indications are that a new immigration reform bill with some bipartisan support will be introduced very soon in the Senate. But there are going to be some severe problems.

Labor, allies line up behind new House jobs bill

March 12, 2010 By John Wojcik

Just 24 hours after the new Local Jobs for America Act was introduced into Congress by Education and Labor Committee Chairman George Miller, D-Calif., unions and their allies are lining up to support the legislation which...