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» House Group Sending Letter to Push for 'Pay Parity' Raises, May 16, 2005 A bipartisan group of House members plans to send a letter today to the chairman and ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee to urge them to support "pay parity" raises next year for civil service and military personnel.

» Community learning centers foster partnerships, May 12, 2005 Education is not an 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. process for children -- it's 24 hours a day from the sleep they get, to the meals they eat, to the support they receive at home and in the community.

» We'll compromise, but no privatization, May 03, 2005 As President Bush and administration officials look back on their campaign to sell privatized Social Security, it is increasingly clear that Americans are just not buying. And after the president's recent press conference, in which he proposed large benefit cuts, the American people are even more skeptical.

» Social Security blitz may have been a bust, April 30, 2005 At a community center outside Washington on Friday, President Bush used familiar phrases, familiar props and familiar jokes to try to convince Americans that Social Security needs to be revamped.

» Bill Would Restore Pension Credits to Returning Employees , April 22, 2005 A bill that would allow former government workers to recoup their pension credits when returning to federal employment has been introduced in the House by Rep. James P. Moran Jr. (D-Va.).

» Democrats Target Youth on Social Security, April 20, 2005 House Democrats are turning to the Internet to bolster their outreach to young Americans on Social Security, hoping to wage a counteroffensive against the Bush administration’s targeting of twentysomething voters in its fight to enact private retirement accounts.

» Tax frustrations show that the time for reform is right, April 14, 2005 The one thing that millions of Americans will not be saying tomorrow is, "Thank goodness, it's Friday."

» Democrats Hit GOP on Taxes, April 13, 2005 Led by Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), House Democrats will use tax-filing week as the kickoff for their latest initiative. Hoyer said Tuesday that Democrats will attempt to show in the coming days and months that they are the true “party of reform” and that, despite the GOP rhetoric, Republicans have only made the tax system more complicated and unjust.

» Democratic ‘Doves’ Vs. Internationalists, March 21, 2005 After Bob Dole lost the White House race to President Bill Clinton in 1996, a group of prominent neoconservatives saw a void in foreign policy and decided to fill it.

» U.S. House Approves $81.4 Bln War Spending Package , March 16, 2005 The U.S. House approved $81.4 billion in additional spending in 2005 for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, about $500 million less than President George W. Bush had requested.

» White House Social Security 'fact sheet' is anything but, February 25, 2005 Last week's White House fact sheet on Social Security contains anything but the facts. It asserts that by 2027 the government will somehow have to come up with an extra $200 billion a year, and by 2033, more than $300 billion.

» Hoyer Weighs in On Social Security , February 24, 2005 As members of Congress wage intellectual and policy battles over the future of Social Security, Rep. Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) went to La Plata on Tuesday to make his case against privatizing parts of the program.

» Rep. Hoyer whipping the GOP , February 16, 2005 House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) waded into Republican territory yesterday, releasing a whip count of 29 Republicans he says are on record opposing “all or major parts of President Bush’s plan” for Social Security reform.

» Democrats Are Fighting To Strengthen Social Security, February 10, 2005 President Bush used his State of the Union address last week to broadly outline his proposal to privatize Social Security, but he still has not released a detailed plan.

» Hoyer Pushes For Hefley Probe, February 09, 2005 A top House Democrat is urging the ethics committee to investigate whether Rep. Joel Hefley (R-Colo.) was forced out as the panel’s chairman in retaliation for the committee’s decision to admonish Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) on two different occasions during the 108th Congress. Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) told reporters Tuesday that the ethics committee should look into whether Hefley was threatened, if it has not done so already, and whether Hefley’s removal from the chairmanship of the panel last week was a response to the committee’s rulings during its investigation of allegations made by former Rep. Nick Smith (R-Mich.), as well as an ethics complaint filed against DeLay by former Rep. Chris Bell (D-Texas).

» Democrat Calls Bush's Budget 'Fiscally Irresponsible Fraud', February 07, 2005 A top House Democrat Monday called President Bush's $2.75 trillion budget plan "fiscally irresponsible fraud" that will be rejected by members of the president's own party.

» Newsview: Bush Budget Contains Omissions, February 07, 2005 President Bush will propose a 3.1 percent pay raise for members of the armed forces and a 2.3 percent increase for civilian federal employees under the fiscal 2006 budget plan the White House will release on Monday.

» Planned Military Raise to Top Civilians', February 05, 2005 President Bush will propose a 3.1 percent pay raise for members of the armed forces and a 2.3 percent increase for civilian federal employees under the fiscal 2006 budget plan the White House will release on Monday.

» News Analysis: New wind in Washington blows ball, February 02, 2005 It used to be that a bipartisan barrage of Beltway backing for “democracy in the Middle East” meant something comforting for Israel: another show of solid U.S. support. Now it could mean profound change.

» CBO: US FY2006 Budget Deficit To Hit $337 Bln , January 26, 2005 WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--Under current policies, the U.S. government will amass a $337 billion annual budget deficit in fiscal year 2006, according to Congressional Budget Office estimates released Thursday.

» Area House Members Implore Bush to Support Pay Parity, January 25, 2005 Ten members of the Washington area delegation plan to send President Bush a letter today urging him to provide equal pay raises for civil service and military personnel in his fiscal 2006 budget proposal that goes to Congress in two weeks.

» GOP Shifts Gears on Ethics Rule, January 05, 2005 House Republicans opened a new session of Congress yesterday by pushing through a new rule curtailing the ways ethics investigations can be launched, a day after they retreated on two other ethics moves.

» House Ethics Inquiries to Be Less Likely, January 05, 2005 A new rule, backed by GOP leaders, would require the vote of a fellow party member before a lawmaker could be investigated.

» House votes to relax internal ethics rules, January 05, 2005 The House yesterday loosened its internal ethics guidelines by voting to make it more difficult for ethics probes to be launched against members of Congress.

» Hoyer Offers to Open Discussions on How Raises Are Determined , January 05, 2005 Rep. Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.), one of the architects of today's white-collar pay system for federal workers, told the Bush administration yesterday that he is ready to discuss a different way of setting annual pay raises.

 

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