Agreed. House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) is pushing Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to take a harder line with the Senate after a trio of Republican senators forced Congress to trim billions from the $787 billion economic stimulus package. It’s not clear how far Pelosi is willing t...

Sand Bucket and Shovel Buy From Art.com It’s hard work dreaming up ways to shovel money out the door. So hard — or perhaps increasingly embarrassing thanks to a sustained drumbeat of criticism from conservatives — that Democratic Congressional leaders are beginning to say out loud ...

By Marc Korman. My last entry examined the committee assignments of four of Maryland’s Congressmembers and what issues they might deal with in the coming year. Today we will take a look at the remaining four. Majority Leader Steny Hoyer As Majority Leader, Steny Hoyer has no committee assignments....

It has been several days now and I’ve had time to chill and collect my thoughts. During that time, I have come to realize that my opposition to the seating of Roland Burris as the Junior Senator from Illinois is a mistake and a histrionic reaction to Rod Blagojevich’s mischievous and Machiavelli...

Lowering expectations for quick passage of an economic stimulus bill, Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid rejected setting "some false deadline" for delivering legislation to President-elect Barack Obama in favor of a more deliberate approach that allows Congress to get the package right "the first...

Lowering expectations for quick passage of an economic stimulus bill, Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid rejected setting "some false deadline" for delivering legislation to President-elect Barack Obama in favor of a more deliberate approach that allows Congress to get the package right "the first...

Lowering expectations for quick passage of an economic stimulus bill, Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid rejected setting "some false deadline" for delivering legislation to President-elect Barack Obama in favor of a more deliberate approach that allows Congress to get the package right "the first...

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With about 55,000 requests for fewer than 400 tickets to Barack Obama's inauguration, Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin's staff says he has no choice but to dispense them in a random drawing. Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski, a fellow Maryland Democrat with 35,000 inquiries of her own, made the same decision. So did....

Staggering under what Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton termed "unprecedented" demand for tickets to attend the swearing-in of President-elect Barack Obama, some members of Congress have suspended taking requests, and others are talking about holding lotteries for the chance to witness history....