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The article reports on the move by Democratic U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in December 2019 to announce the passage of a new trade deal with Canada and Mexico, as well as the near approvals of a bipartisan defense bill and a legislation lowering the cost of prescription drugs. Other topics are the formal impeachment case of high crimes and misdemeanors against President Donald Trump, and the comments of several lawmakers like Representative Marcy Kaptur on the developments.

Reports on the passage of a bill in United States Senate that authorized the creation of a state-by-state system for suicide prevention in young people. Budget authorized for the prevention program; Speech on the Senate floor by Senator Garrett Lee Smith, whose son died of suicide in 2003.

Reports that a bill called Class Action Fairness Act of 2004 which would limit class action lawsuits failed on a procedural vote in the United States Senate. Negotiations between Democrats and Republicans on a compromise for the past several months; Accusation made by party representatives against each other on the issue of using the bill for political purposes; Inclusion of tort law in President George W. Bush's agenda in Congress.

The article reports on the decision of U.S. President Donald Trump to delay his State of the Union address amid government shutdown. Topics discussed are conflict between U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and President Trump over the president's constitutional duty to report to Congress, difference in the two proposed bills that would include funding for protection of some undocumented immigrants and funding for shuttered government agencies, and plan of House democrats for border security,

The article reports on debate over infusion of federal funds needed to increase economy battered by coronavirus pandemic and mentions that Democrats pressed to add money for hospitals and local governments to emergency infusion of fund requested by administration of president Donald Trump.

The article talks about a phonecall between Senator Joe Manchin Ill and the U.S. President Donald Trump to talk about the gun safety legislation and mentions that Trump will decide whether he will defy the National Rifle Association and embrace a bill to expand background checks for gun purchases.

The article reports that U.S. senator Chuck Schumer, Democratic leader, put the brakes on Republicans' quick embrace of redflag laws as a response to gun violence stating that any gun-related legislation must be accompanied by a U.S. House bill requiring background checks on all gun purchasers.

The article reports on the mounting pressure faced by members of the U.S. Congress to pass a tougher gun control law as of February 2018. Topics discussed include the call made by several governors to congress to protect the public against mass shootings, the school massacre in Parkland, Florida, and the move by senators Jeff Flake and Dianne Feinstein to introduce a bill increasing the age threshold for buying assault weapons.

The article reports that the U.S. Senate has struck down three proposals to fix the nation's immigration system. Topics discussed include a bill supported by President Donald Trump that would have committed 25 billion U.S. dollars for a wall along the border with Mexico, Trump's decision to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), and the effect of the lawmakers' lack of consensus on the so-called Dreamers.

The article reports the move by a broad bipartisan group of U.S. senators in February 2018 to agree on a revision of the country's immigration laws to boost national security and to legalize the citizenship of young immigrants who were brought illegally to the U.S as children or the Dreamers. Also cited are the claim by President Donald Trump that he will veto any bill against his position, and the comment by Republican Senator Lindsey Graham on the issue.

The article offers information on stopgap spending bill has been approved by the House and mentions the views of Chuck Schumer, Senator, on negotiation.

The article reports the efforts by the U.S. Congress as of September 2017 to pass the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (Dream) Act that aims to legalize the stay of undocumented young immigrants in the country. Also cited are the anti-immigration policy of the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump, and the comment by Democratic Senator Richard J. Durbin on the issue.

The article discusses the challenges that the U.S. G.O.P. (Republican Party) face in the House of Representatives in developing legislative bills on immigration, particularly Republicans' confusion over whether U.S. President Donald Trump would support their bills.

The article informs that the U.S Speaker Paul D. Ryan IS seeking to unite his fractious conference around a compromise immigration bill, assured Republican lawmakers during a session with the U.S. President Trump.

The author discusses the U.S. economy and the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush. Bush is preparing to give a State of the Union Address on January 28, 2008 and it is expected that he will announce that bipartisan legislation has been developed to help spur the American economy. The author compares Bush's administration to that of his father's, President George Bush.

The article analyzes relations between the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush and the Democratic party majorities in the U.S. Congress. A pair of compromise agreements on trade and immigration legislation are seen as indications each side has become more pragmatic in what began as a wholly adversarial relationship. Cooperation on policy on the Iraq War, however, remains unlikely.

The article discusses how some Republicans in the United States Congress have indicated to President George W. Bush that progress must be made in the stabilization of Iraq by September 2007. According to the article there are many within the United States government who are uncertain of what "progress" would truly indicate. The article reports that several lawmakers are trying to create legislation that would clearly define the word "progress" as it relates to the Iraq War.

The article reports on the passage of a legislation by a bipartisan group of senators in the U.S. on January 29, 2015, which aims to lift travel limits in Cuba.

WASHINGTON -- When Congress passed legislation requiring nearly all Americans to obtain health insurance, Randy E. Barnett, a passionate libertarian who teaches law at Georgetown, argued that the bill was unconstitutional. Many of his colleagues, on both the left and the right, dismissed the idea as ridiculous -- and still do. But over the past two years, through his prolific writings, speaking engagements and television appearances, Professor Barnett has helped drive the question of the health care law's constitutionality from the fringes of academia into the mainstream of American legal debate and right onto the agenda of the United States Supreme Court. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON -- President Obama, who has stood by his landmark health care law through court attacks and legislative efforts to repeal it, told the nation's governors on Monday that he was willing to amend the measure to give states the ability to opt out of its most controversial requirements right from the start, including the mandate that most people buy insurance. In remarks to the National Governors Association, Mr. Obama said he supported legislation that would allow states to obtain waivers from the mandate as soon as it took effect in 2014, as long as they could find another way to expand coverage without driving up health care costs. Under the current law, states must wait until 2017 to obtain waivers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON -- If passage of the financial regulatory overhaul on Thursday proves anything about President Obama, it is this: He knows how to push big bills through a balky Congress. But Mr. Obama's legislative success poses a paradox: while he may be winning on Capitol Hill, he is losing with voters at a time of economic distress, and soon may be forced to scale back his ambitions. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON -- President Obama, making a muscular show of his executive authority just one day after Congress left for spring recess, said Saturday that he would bypass the Senate and install 15 appointees, including a union lawyer whose nomination to the National Labor Relations Board was blocked last month with the help of two Democrats. Coming on the heels of Mr. Obama's big victory on health care legislation, Saturday's move suggests a newly emboldened president who is unafraid to provoke a confrontation with the minority party. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON -- With the strokes of 20 pens, President Obama signed his landmark health care overhaul -- the most expansive social legislation enacted in decades -- into law on Tuesday, saying it enshrines ''the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their health care.'' Mr. Obama signed the measure, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, during a festive and at times raucous ceremony in the East Room of the White House. He spoke to an audience of nearly 300, including more than 200 Democratic lawmakers who rode a yearlong legislative roller coaster that ended with House passage of the bill Sunday night. They interrupted him repeatedly with cheers, applause and standing ovations. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON -- The battle over health care is poised to move swiftly from Congress back to the country as Democrats, Republicans and a battery of interest groups race to define the legislation and dig in for long-term political and legal fights. President Obama plans to open a new campaign this week to persuade skeptical Americans that the bill holds immediate benefits for them and addresses the nation's shaky fiscal condition. Republicans said they would seek to repeal the measure, challenge its constitutionality and coordinate efforts in statehouses to block its implementation. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON -- The battle over health care is poised to move swiftly from Congress back to the country as Democrats, Republicans and a battery of interest groups race to define the legislation and dig in for long-term political and legal fights. President Obama plans to open a new campaign this week to persuade skeptical Americans that the bill holds immediate benefits for them and addresses the nation's shaky fiscal condition. Republicans said they would seek to repeal the measure, challenge its constitutionality and coordinate efforts in statehouses to block its implementation. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON -- President Obama signed a jobs bill into law on Thursday, but declared that the measure, which is intended to spur employment by providing businesses incentives to hire new workers, ''is by no means enough.'' Mr. Obama appeared in the Rose Garden to sign the measure, which passed the Senate Wednesday by a vote of 68 to 29, a rare example of bipartisan support in a capital that has become bitterly divided over Mr. Obama's health care overhaul. The president said he was pleased that more than a dozen Republicans ''were willing to break out of the partisan morass'' in Washington to vote for the bill. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

After a private lunch with President Obama on Tuesday, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Tim Kaine, said of the health care bill, ''This is the right thing to do, but it's also good politics.'' Mr. Kaine said Mr. Obama had not asked him to talk to wavering Democrats, although Mr. Kaine did plan to meet with lawmakers. He would not say with whom. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON -- President Obama, beginning a full-court press for his health care overhaul, met Thursday with insurance industry executives and House Democrats as party leaders on Capitol Hill struggled to figure out whether they could meet the president's timetable for enacting legislation within a few weeks. One day after Mr. Obama vowed to do ''everything in my power'' to get a bill passed, his health secretary, Kathleen Sebelius, convened insurance executives at the White House and pressed them to release actuarial data justifying their rate increases. The president stopped by -- an appearance that was unscheduled, but clearly orchestrated -- to deliver a letter from an Ohio cancer survivor who had dropped her insurance after a 40 percent rate increase. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

If there was any question about how deeply divided Republicans and Democrats are about how to reshape the American health care system, consider that they spent the first few hours of President Obama's much-anticipated health care forum on Thursday arguing over whether they were in fact deeply divided. The forum played out with Mr. Obama serving as moderator, M.C. and chief defender of Democratic policy prescriptions. He and his fellow Democrats tried to make the case that the two parties were closer than they thought, with the implication that their bill was centrist and would be acceptable to mainstream voters. Republicans countered that the gap was vast, the bill out of touch with what the country wanted, and that Mr. Obama should throw it out and start over. ''A dangerous experiment,'' warned Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio, the House Republican leader. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

When he jousts with Congressional Republicans over health care policy during a televised meeting on Thursday, President Obama will seek to portray his adversaries as sharing many of the broad goals of his legislation and also strive to unify Congressional Democrats to press ahead and adopt a bill, senior White House officials and leading Democrats say. But Mr. Obama, top White House advisers and Congressional leaders of both parties are under no illusion that the meeting will resolve more than a half-century of disagreements over health care policy. Instead, Democrats say, they hope the event will create a climate that helps revive their legislation in Congress and prove to the American public that they are willing to hear out Republicans and even adopt their ideas. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON IT is no secret that President Obama desperately wants Congress to pass legislation to overhaul health care. But last month, when Mr. Obama convened Congressional Democratic leaders at the White House for a marathon negotiating session, another priority intervened. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

President Obama, cracking down on tax cheats, said on Wednesday that the federal government would no longer award contracts to companies that did not pay their taxes, and called on Congress to pass legislation allowing the Internal Revenue Service to share information about businesses that owe back taxes. Mr. Obama used his executive authority to direct the heads of federal agencies to bar ''deadbeat companies'' from doing business with the government. Studies by the Government Accountability Office have identified tens of thousands of such companies that, collectively, owe more than $5 billion in back taxes, the president said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Pushing back against Republican assertions that President Obama's proposed health care overhaul would drive up medical costs, the White House said Monday that the pending Senate bill would ultimately slow the growth of health care spending by one percentage point a year. ''There's a lot of talk these days about fiscal responsibility,'' Christina D. Romer, the chairwoman of Mr. Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, said in a conference call with reporters. ''I want to tell you that what's going on on the floor of the Senate right now is probably the most important thing we can do for the long-run fiscal health of this country.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

On the eve of a crucial Senate vote on health care legislation, the Obama administration on Friday distributed a bipartisan message of support from Tommy G. Thompson, a Republican who served as health secretary to President George W. Bush, and Richard A. Gephardt, a former Democratic leader of the House. Mr. Thompson, right, and Mr. Gephardt said that while they had ''specific concerns with the bill in its current form,'' they believed that it represented ''another milestone in achieving meaningful health care reform for millions of Americans.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

As health care legislation moves toward a crucial airing in the Senate, the White House is facing a growing revolt from some Democrats and analysts who say the bills Congress is considering do not fulfill President Obama's promise to slow the runaway rise in health care spending. Mr. Obama has made cost containment a centerpiece of his health reform agenda, and in May he stood up at the White House with industry groups who pledged voluntary efforts to trim the growth of health care spending by 1.5 percent, or $2 trillion, over the next decade. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The White House, growing concerned that the Congressional timetable for passing a health care overhaul could slip into next year, is stepping up pressure on the Senate for quick action, with President Obama appearing Sunday in the Rose Garden to call on senators to ''take up the baton and bring this effort to the finish line.'' Mr. Obama's remarks came just 14 hours after the House narrowly approved a landmark plan that would cost $1.1 trillion over 10 years and extend insurance coverage to 36 million uninsured Americans; the president called it ''a courageous vote.'' But the votes had barely been counted when the White House began turning its attention to an even bigger hurdle: getting legislation passed in the Senate. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

After months of plodding work by five Congressional committees and weeks of back-room bargaining by Democratic leaders, President Obama's arms-length strategy on health care appears to be paying dividends, with the House and the Senate poised to take up legislation to insure nearly all Americans. Debate in the House is expected to begin this week, and the Senate will soon take up its version. Democratic leaders and senior White House officials are sounding increasingly confident that Mr. Obama will sign legislation overhauling the nation's health care system -- a goal that has eluded American presidents for decades. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

One is a smooth-talking former congressman from Louisiana -- ''the Swamp Fox,'' constituents called him -- who relishes his image as a rascal, a charmer and a Cajun raconteur. The other is a fireman's daughter from working-class Rhode Island, strait-laced and studious, who mastered the arcane world of health policy as an analyst for the A.F.L.-C.I.O. As perhaps the two most powerful health industry lobbyists in Washington, the two of them, Billy Tauzin and Karen Ignagni, are the odd couple of the capital's health care debate. Their paths are as opposite as their personalities. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

President Obama said Saturday that he saw an ''unprecedented consensus'' around Congressional plans to overhaul the nation's health care system, citing the recent statements of a string of Republicans -- most of them former elected officials -- who have issued their own calls to action. ''The distinguished former Congressional leaders who urged us to act on health insurance reform spoke of the historic moment at hand and reminded us that this moment will not soon come again,'' Mr. Obama said in his weekly address to the nation. ''They called on members of both parties to seize this opportunity to finally confront a problem that has plagued us for far too long.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

With Congressional Democrats growing increasingly nervous about the cost of overhauling the nation's health care system, President Obama vowed Saturday to reject any health legislation that would run up the federal deficit. ''I want to be very clear,'' Mr. Obama said in his weekly address to the nation. ''I will not sign on to any health plan that adds to our deficits over the next decade. And by helping improve quality and efficiency, the reforms we make will help bring our deficits under control in the long term.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

President Obama had a message on Monday for critics who think he has lost momentum in his bid to overhaul health care: ''Don't bet against us.'' After a weeklong overseas trip that pushed him to the fringes of Washington's health care debate, Mr. Obama moved aggressively to reclaim control. He summoned top Democrats to the White House to urge them to stick to his legislative timetable -- he wants the House and the Senate to pass bills before the August recess -- and appeared in the Rose Garden to cast himself as a kind of sheriff who had just come back to town. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Wal-Mart, the nation's largest private employer, joined hands with a major labor union Tuesday to endorse the idea of requiring large companies to provide health insurance to their workers, a move that gives a boost to President Obama as he is pushing for health legislation on Capitol Hill. ''Not every business can make the same contribution, but everyone must make some contribution,'' Wal-Mart's chief executive, Michael T. Duke, wrote in a letter to White House and Congressional officials, adding that he favored ''an employer mandate which is fair and broad in its coverage.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

After months of insisting he would leave the details to Congress, President Obama has concluded that he must exert greater control over the health care debate and is preparing an intense push for legislation that will include speeches, town-hall-style meetings and much deeper engagement with lawmakers, senior White House officials say. Mindful of the failures of former President Bill Clinton, whose intricate proposal for universal care collapsed on Capitol Hill 15 years ago, Mr. Obama until now had charted a different course, setting forth broad principles and concentrating on bringing disparate factions -- doctors, insurers, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, labor unions -- to the negotiating table. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

President Obama will meet with influential Senate Democrats on Tuesday to discuss overhauling health care, as the White House releases a report asserting that revamping the system would increase the income of a typical family of four by $2,600 in 2020, and by $10,000 in 2030. The Democrats on two Senate committees that are drafting health legislation have been invited to the White House to meet with Mr. Obama, hours before he leaves for the Middle East and Europe. As part of a push to secure Congressional passage of a bill this year, the administration will also make the case on Tuesday that reforming health care is critical to fixing the economy. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Saying that the government must act ''the same way any responsible family does in setting its budget,'' President Obama called for Congress to pass legislation that would require lawmakers to offset any new tax cuts or spending increases with equivalent tax increases or spending cuts. The legislation, dubbed ''PAYGO,'' for ''pay as you go,'' has become a rallying cry for fiscally conservative Democrats, who are pushing for it to be applied to the health care reform legislation that the White House is hoping will pass this year. But speaking in his weekly address to the nation on Saturday, Mr. Obama said that he wanted it applied more broadly. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports that U.S. President George W. Bush has signed a legislation called the Sudan Accountability and Divestment Act, to stop investment ties with companies engaged in business with Sudan. This is seen as a measure to pressurize Sudan to stop violence in Darfur. Around 200,000 people have been killed in the four year conflict in Darfur.

The article presents information on the conservative ideas of Ed Gillespie, counselor to U.S. President George W. Bush. It informs that Gillespie has led Bush to threaten to veto the huge package of spending bills put forward by the Democrats. It is stated that as adviser to the president, Gillespie is trying to write a narrative for Bush that portrays him as a fiscal conservative, widening the gap between him and the Democrats.

The article reports that U.S. President George W. Bush, while vetoing the legislative bill related to stem cell research, will make a call for research in regenerative medicines. On June 20, 2007, he is expected to veto the bill and issue an executive order to encourage scientific advances in the field of regenerative medicines. Despite public support to the bill, this is the second time that Bush will reject it.

The article reports that Democratic leaders in the U.S. Congress are planning to hold a special ceremony to send a bill to President George W. Bush that sets timetables for the troop withdrawal from Iraq. The bill is expected to be vetoed by the President and returned to the House for consideration.

The article reports that talks between U.S. President George W. Bush and the Congress over a legislative bill of $124 billion for war are running smoothly. President Bush invited the leaders of both the parties and Congressional leaders to come and discuss the matter. The senate democrats agreed to reach to a compromise with the president.