Congress crosses partisan divides on some issues
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Agreement on moving class-action suits to federal courts indicates bridge building between parties, for now.
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Key legislators on opposite sides of the deadlocked effort to reorganize the nation&#39;s intelligence community said yesterday they will not compromise their positions to give Congress a chance
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Americans spend a lot of time in their politics talking about the issues that divide them even though they have many common interests, says Sen. Barack Obama, whose new book explores the problems he sees as inherent to national politics.
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With only a few weeks until it adjourns for the election campaign, the Republican-controlled U.S. Congress has agreed to take up the politically polarizing issues of same-sex marriage, "God" in the Pledge of Allegiance and flag burning.
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Republicans are three steps from a November shellacking &#151; each a grim possibility if habitually divided Democrats get their acts together.
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The US Congress Tuesday takes up a divisive bill balancing border security and the documentation of 12 million illegal aliens, in a make-or-break debate that could scuttle immigration reform until after the 2008 presidential election.
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Divided by their liberal and moderate wings, congressional Democrats return from a monthlong recess without consensus on how to tackle several pressing issues, including Iraq and warrantless wiretaps.
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Less than a month into a new, two-year Congress, the line is forming among House members considering their next career moves.
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Division between President Bush and Congress over the Iraq war hardens.
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Capitol Hill weighs fixes to lending industry, but divergent views on market regulation may limit results.
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Republican gains in the House and Senate could spell trouble for the Northeast, where moderate GOP lawmakers often align themselves with Democrats on social, environmental and transportation issues.
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 1 - A more Republican and more conservative Congress convenes on Tuesday, with Republicans intending to use their greater strength in the House and Senate to help President Bush pursue a second-term agenda of major changes in bedrock programs like Social Security and income taxes.
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House Republicans are deeply divided over the merits of  earmarking money for pet projects.
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Exploiting a deep well of voter revulsion over partisan gridlock in Washington, Sen. Barack Obama is promising to do something that has not been done in modern U.S. politics: unite a coalition of Democrats, Republicans and independents behind an agenda of sweeping change.
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State lawmakers who reconfigured congressional maps to benefit one party over another have drawn themselves into a corner in some House districts.
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The 109th session of Congress, frustrated by partisanship and criticized for its meager record of accomplishment, ended with flurry of bill-passing and promises of change when Democrats take over the House and Senate in January.
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Republican and Democratic presidential candidates are abandoning the middle ground for positions on Iraq and immigration that cater to their parties' fringes &#151; the latest example of polarization trumping moderation in Washington.