Rep. Lewis to Head Appropriations Panel
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Veteran Rep. Jerry Lewis of California won the backing of House Republican leaders on Wednesday to head the chamber's Appropriations Committee, thrusting him to the center of this year's battle over spending cuts.
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Maryland Rep. Chris Van Hollen, who was elected to Congress only four years ago, will lead House Democrats' fundraising and recruiting efforts heading into the 2008 election, Speaker-designate Nancy Pelosi announced Tuesday.
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One longtime House member's views of the hidden costs of the war in Iraq are worth studying -- when the congressman is Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.), chairman of the House Appropriations subcommittee on defense.
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Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff got an earful at his first public sit-down with the new Congress on Thursday, with members raising concerns about cuts in state grants, sharp increases in immigration fees and lax management of billion-dollar programs.
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Eager to shore up their fragile House and Senate majorities, congressional Democrats have enlisted their committee chairmen in an early blitz to bring millions of dollars into the party's coffers, culminating in a late-March event featuring House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and 10 of the powerful panel...
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John P. Murtha, chairman of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, is one of the most influential players in challenging President Bushâs Iraq policy.
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A Senate committee is scheduled to  take action next week on President George W. Bush's pick to  head the Food and Drug Administration, the panel's chairman  said on Wednesday.
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U.S. and Russian lawmakers will hold  a joint session of their foreign affairs committees in  Washington later this month to discuss growing tensions between  the two countries, the chairman of the U.S. House of  Representatives panel announced on Tuesday.
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He's been chairman for only eight months, but already Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) is more than daydreaming about what his official Ways and Means Committee portrait will look like. He knows one thing: It'll be top of the line.
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Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge will serve as national co-chair of Republican John McCain's presidential exploratory committee, the campaign said Wednesday.
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The House of Representatives on  Friday approved significant increases in funds next year for  domestic security and veterans care in a challenge to President  George W. Bush&#39;s more limited budget requests.
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A vote on Dr. Andrew C. von Eschenbach, who has been serving as interim commissioner, is expected later today.
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David Obey is Congress's man with the pencils -- and the Democrats' point man for holding the line on spending
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With his poll numbers in the tank, the President seems to be gearing up for a veto fight with Congress over a long forgotten issue  -  controlling spending
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Rob Portman was headed to Capitol Hill, eager to listen. Democrats had just won control of the House and Senate. Portman, the former Republican congressman who now leads the White House budget office, was diving right into the troubled waters of entitlement reform.
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House members want answers from Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff to a number of questions, from how his department manages multibillion-dollar contracts to how it assesses risk and divvies up scarce funds.
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The Department of Homeland Security is seeking money and employees to secure U.S. borders under President Bush's budget, while hiking airline passenger fees, as a Senate panel endorsed a new leader for the agency.