When President Obama addresses the nation tonight in a State of the Union fashion, it won't just be Congress and members of the public tuning in. Special interests, too, will be paying close attention to what the president has to say about upcoming plans that could affect them. While the president w...

Interest groups spent $17.4 million for every day Congress was in session. Lobbying growth for finance sector and auto industry is smaller in tough times. WASHINGTON--While companies across the board were losing record amounts of money and laying off employees last year, at least one industry s...

Name: Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) Position: Frank will continue his role as chair of the House Financial Services Committee, which he undertook in 2007, just before the country's economy started to slip into a recession. The Democrat had been the ranking member of the committee, which has jurisdicti...

The White House's new resident in January is going to have one heck of a complex economic mess to deal with. If that person is John McCain, he'll be there in part because of the hard work of a man whom economists are blaming for the crippling subprime meltdown. Former Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Texas, gener...