Congress

New York's junior senator, Kirsten Gillibrand, is a main sponsor of the so-called "Stock Act," which forces lawmakers, their aides and family members to publicly disclose financial transactions.

Earlier this week Michele Bachmann announced she will run for re-election in Minnesota’s Sixth Congressional District. And while she has become a national figure, her re-election bid faces a difficult hurdle.

The Obama administration says it would oppose pending legislation that would undermine "the dynamic, innovative global Internet.''...

It’s been a bad year for commuters and if you rely on mass transit it’s only expected to get worse as a federal transit tax credit is set to expire at the end of the year.

Eleven lawmakers missed the House vote that rejected Senate legislation to extend a payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits for two months.

A Minnesota farmer will testify before Congress about his losses in the collapse of commodities trading firm MF Global Inc.

In just more than three weeks, your paycheck will be two percent smaller. That is the amount you will lose if Congress fails to extend the payroll tax cut.

"It's really going to hurt because two of my kids are in college and of course $1,000, $2,000 can really help in paying tuition," said Antonio Meloni of Astoria.

Senator Amy Klobuchar joined Dave Lee on the WCCO Morning News Monday to discuss the ongoing problems with the congressional debt committee.

The plaintiffs say Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers now working on a redistricting plan are engaged in "an exercise in partisan self-dealing and incumbent protection.'' They say dysfunction in the process could jeopardize elections in 2012.

You could call it the "defense of pizza act" in congress -- a measure designating the sauce on a slice as a veggie. Industry sources admit it is a move to keep pizza in the school lunch mix.

Democratic Congressmen Henry Waxman (CA) and Bobby Rush (IL) today called on Republican committee chairs to hold hearings on the full economic costs of coal-fired power plants. The key word here is, of course, full. Big Coal and its supporters in Con...