9/11 Legislation Is Introduced as Congress Returns to Capitol
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Members of Congress returned to the Capitol today to begin what is likely to be a spirited debate over a bill that would put into effect the 41 recommendations of the Sept.
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How Two Conservative Members of Congress Plan to Jump-Start Flagging  Legislation
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WASHINGTON - Senate passage of a bill to enact the Sept. 11 commission's terror-fighting recommendations now puts the focus on the House, where getting Republicans and Democrats to agree on the legislation may be more difficult...
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Security officials for the first presidential inauguration since Sept. 11, 2001, are requiring every reporter, photographer and cameraman who works in and around the Capitol that day to be fingerprinted and undergo background checks.
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Congress drafts two bills to implement the 9/11 Commission's recommendations. Critics say neither has adequate privacy or civil liberties safeguards, but the House version includes a litany of assaults on individuals' rights. By Ryan Singel.
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After missing a crucial deadline in  congressional talks to revamp U.S. spy agencies in order to  address failures exposed by the Sept. 11 attacks, lawmakers  held out hope on Friday of reaching an agreement that can pass  Congress after the Nov. 2 elections.
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Former paramilitaries have been threatened with deportation from the United States since new anti-terrorism laws were introduced after Sept. 11, 2001.
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Police patrol the Capitol armed with rifles and wearing biological, chemical and radioactive attack gear. One senator was so concerned about the terrorist threat that he temporarily shut down his office during the recent pre-election recess. But more than three years after Sept. 11, Congress has yet to decide how it would respond to a catastrophic event that kills or incapacitates many or most of its members.
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The House approved a government insurance program on Tuesday that commits Washington to paying for most of the damage in the event of a terrorist attack in the next seven years.
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The US Senate on Tuesday by a vote of 60 to 38 approved a sweeping homeland security bill meant to shore up US defenses against future terror attack.
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Chapter 13 of the 9/11 Commission Report is being cited almost every day in some part of Washington. Yesterday, Sen. George V. Voinovich (R-Ohio) opened a Senate subcommittee hearing by reading
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House Republicans say legislation they introduced Friday will make America safer by including the Sept. 11 commission's suggestions to improve intelligence, immigration and national security.
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Four months after the September 11 commission urged drastic changes to protect the United States from another terror attack, Congress today neared final passage of far-reaching legislation overhauling the US intelligence network and instituting new border
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The Senate returns Monday to its defense authorization bill, beginning with a politically charged debate about the treatment of detained terrorism suspects before lawmakers turn to the Iraq War.
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The Senate opened a floor debate today and moved toward a final vote on a bill endorsed by 9/11 commission leaders.
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After Congress shuffled the federal bureaucracy in response to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks by creating the Homeland Security Department, Democrats lost control of the Senate and four seats in the House.
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As clock winds down on 108th Congress, lawmakers focus on 9/11 commission goals.