House leaders demand FBI return documents
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Some lawmakers are warning of a voter backlash against members of Congress &quot;trying to protect their own&quot; if party leaders keep escalating a constitutional dispute over the FBI&#039;s raid of a representative&#039;s office.
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WASHINGTON - House Republican leaders on Friday easily pushed through sweeping new law enforcement powers as part of a Sept. 11 anti-terrorism package, but the House now must negotiate a truce with the Senate on those measures to get President Bush's signature before the elections...
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House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner said Tuesday he will summon Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and FBI Director Robert Mueller before his panel to explain their decision to raid a lawmaker&#039;s office for the first time in history.
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Two influential lawmakers investigating how and when the Bush administration learned the circumstances of Pat Tillman's friendly-fire death and how those details were disclosed accused the White House and Pentagon on Friday of withholding key documents and renewed their demand for the material.
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Five House Republicans on Monday joined a call for U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to resign amid allegations of corruption in the oil-for-food program.
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Government official calls for tools to help investigators sift through increasing amounts of data seized by law enforcement.
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Unwilling to concede defeat, congressional leaders expressed hope Sunday that lawmakers could return next month to resolve a turf battle that has blocked passage of an overhaul of the nationâs intelligence agencies.
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 20  /PRNewswire/ -- Calling on Congress to secure a prime national asset before it is destroyed, a group of women leaders brought their case for saving coastal Louisiana to Capitol Hill today.
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House Republican leaders mounted an effort to explain their own conduct after the resignation of Rep. Mark Foley and suggested there should be a criminal investigation of Foley's contacts with congressional pages. The scandal comes just weeks before the November 7 midterm elections, and Republicans were hurriedly trying to find someone to replace Foley.
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A half dozen federal investigations into the activities of Republican lawmakers are raising new worries for GOP leaders who hope to regain the House majority they lost last fall.
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Republican and Democratic members of   the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee on Thursday   demanded Republican leaders allow a floor vote on legislation   that would ban the use of deceptive means to obtain private   telephone records.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. -- A Congressional committee on Monday asked Hewlett-Packard Co. to turn over records related to the company's possibly illegal investigation of media leaks, as the company's board planned to meet again to discuss the fate of embattled Chairwoman Patricia Dunn.
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The chairmen of the House and Senate Judiciary committees yesterday ratcheted up their fight with President Bush over documents on the firing of U.S. attorneys, sending the White House a barbed letter demanding that the president back down from a claim of executive privilege -- or give Congress a...
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Federal investigators have asked the House of Representatives to keep computer records and papers from former Rep. Mark Foley, a senior Justice Department official said Wednesday. The move is a sign that a criminal investigation into the congressman's correspondences with teen pages is imminent, Justice Department officials said.
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The House voted Friday to take away besieged Rep. William Jefferson&#039;s committee seat, then dispatched its own lawyers to join him in court to seek the return of documents seized in a federal bribery probe.
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The FBI&#039;s weekend search of the House office of a Louisiana Democrat under investigation for bribery may have overstepped Constitutional boundaries, House leaders said as the congressman under investigation pledged to stay in office.
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Bureau personnel who used misleading letters to obtain records from telephone companies face what could be the first criminal investigation of Patriot Act abuses.