A House investigative panel has charged Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) with multiple ethics violations, reports The Associated Press. The case will now be sent to another ethics panel that will try the violations. The AP adds:
Sources said the committee and Rangel’s attorney attempted unsuccessfully to negotiate a settlement
The Senate passed an extension of unemployment benefits through November last night; now the House has just done the same. Next stop: President Obama’s desk.
For more on this, see Annie’s more thorough assessment here.
Late yesterday, the House passed a war-funding bill. But the $80 billion bill actually includes only $37 billion in war funding; the rest is made up of domestic spending, including $10 billion to avoid teacher layoffs, $5 billion for Pell Grants, $1 billion for summer jobs for youths and More…
After failing to pass an extension of unemployment benefits earlier this week, the House tried again — and succeeded, 270 to 153. The Senate will take up its version of the bill when Congress returns from a week-long break, on July 12.
House Ways and Means Committee Chair Sandy More…
This afternoon, the House failed to pass a standalone bill that would have extended federal unemployment insurance benefits. Last week, the jobs bill pending in the Senate — containing those benefits as well as Medicaid aid for states and dozens of other provisions — died. Each week that Congress fails More…
News out of the conference committee splitting the differences between the House and Senate versions of financial regulatory reform: The Consumer Financial Protection Agency, a new federal rule-making body charged with protecting the interests of consumers, will be housed inside the Federal Reserve. The House version of financial regulatory More…
Mike Allen has the scoop: The White House has instructed the Senate to take up its energy bill — which looks increasingly unlikely to include meaningful climate provisions, particularly after President Obama chose not to push for them in his speech last night — the week of July More…
Our comment thread indicates some confusion about the Senate parliamentarian’s ruling on the reconciliation bill that passed the upper chamber yesterday. To clarify: The changes in the Senate, which required the bill to return to the House, were tiny tweaks to the maximum Pell grant allowance under the More…
Democratic leaders pushing health care reform this year like to argue that a vast majority of the proposals represent uncontroversial changes backed by most Capitol Hill lawmakers. And while that might be true, it hasn’t prevented some sharp disagreements between House and Senate Democrats over a handful of high-profile reform More…
As Capitol Hill Democrats consider proposals to pull the country out of its huge deficit hole, they’re repeatedly running into a formidable impediment: themselves.
On issues as diverse as health care and student lending, provisions designed to rein in deficit spending have all run smack into the ubiquitous inclination of More…
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