Pettitte Arrives to Talk to Congress
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WASHINGTON -- New York Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte showed up early for his closed-door interview Monday with lawyers from a congressional committee looking into drug use in baseball.
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CAPITOL HILL A week after losing his bid for the presidency, John Kerry was back at the capitol, meeting with Democratic leaders about the upcoming lame duck session of congress.
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The controversy erupted as the Congress prepared to return for a post-election session under pressure to pass legislation that would create a national director of intelligence.
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The New York senator has been tapped by Democratic leaders to try to engineer the party's Senate comeback.
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi met on Monday with the Federal Reserve chairman to discuss potential action by Congress, the White House and the central bank to jump-start the economy.
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The largest delegation from the U.S. Congress to visit Cuba since 1959 arrived in Havana on Friday seeking to open a dialogue with the communist government of acting President Raul Castro despite White House opposition to such contacts.
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Andy Pettitte is meeting with the news media for the first time to discuss his admitted use of human growth hormone.
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Making sure that the Republicans, now in the House minority, have enough money for their 2008 comeback effort is a top early priority for Oklahoma Rep. Tom Cole in his role as the new chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC).
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Andy Pettitte, the Yankees veteran left-handed pitcher, has scheduled an afternoon news conference Monday at the teamâs spring training headquarters.
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Two congressional committees are scheduled this week to consider a bill giving the District its first full vote in the House, and senior Democrats hope to pass it in the House and send it to the Senate this month.
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Members of Congress return for a march to Election Day that is complicated by the call to reorganize U.S. intelligence agencies.
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FIRST ON TAP: President Bush was meeting Monday with nine new senators and 41 new representatives joining the 109th Congress in a session that a spokesman said was aimed at "coming together."
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TAMPA, Florida  - New York Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte apologized on Monday for using human growth hormone and said he had not talked to his good friend Roger Clemens since the U.S. Congress held hearings last week on drug and steroid use by baseball players.
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The congressional hearing involving Roger Clemens, Andy Pettitte and former trainer Brian McNamee was postponed Wednesday, The Associated Press learned. The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform was informing witnesses that the Jan. 16 session will be pushed back, a lawyer involved in the hearing told the AP.
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US Senator Mitch McConnell is in the Middle East for a two-day visit to discuss peace prospects between the Israelis and Palestinians.
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Like many schoolchildren, members of Congress were due back at their desks Tuesday after a summer break. Unlike the students, lawmakers will immediately face major tests: on Iraq, children's health care, a home mortgage crisis and the budget.
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Rep. Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the House of Representatives, said on Friday she wanted Congress to pass mandatory caps on heat-trapping carbon dioxide emissions this year.