In September 2002, four members of Congress met in secret for a first look at a unique CIA program designed to wring vital information from reticent terrorism suspects in U.S. custody. For more than an hour, the bipartisan group, which included future House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was given a virtual tour of the CIA's overseas detention sites and the harsh techniques interrogators had devised to try to make their prisoners talk. ...more

December 9, 2007

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday called for "an immediate and thorough" review of the supervision and security surrounding the congressional page program. ...more

December 8, 2007

Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite resigned Thursday from a bipartisan panel responsible for overseeing the teenage congressional page program, saying problems persist a year after the Mark Foley scandal helped propel Democrats into control of the U.S. House. ...more

December 7, 2007

House Democrats pushed through a $50 billion bill for the Iraq war Wednesday night that would require President Bush to start bringing troops home in coming weeks with a goal of ending combat by December 2008. ...more

November 15, 2007

Even though members of Congress cut back their pork barrel spending this year, House lawmakers still tacked on to the military appropriations bill $1.8 billion to pay 580 private companies for projects the Pentagon did not request. ...more

November 4, 2007

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday called for the resignation of the head of the Consumer Product Safety Commission after the recall of millions of Chinese-made toys. ...more

October 31, 2007

Setting up another confrontation with congressional Democrats over the war in Iraq, President Bush sent Congress a $45.9 billion emergency funding request Monday for expenses related to U.S. military campaigns. ...more

October 23, 2007

Political leaders in both parties are trying to reassure Floridians that despite national party sanctions against the state's Jan. 29 primary, their votes will count in the presidential primaries. ...more

October 20, 2007

House Democrats fell 13 votes short Wednesday in trying to overturn President Bush's veto of a $35 billion expansion of the government children's health insurance plan, prompting calls for new negotiations to decide the fate of the 10-year-old program. ...more

October 19, 2007

Turkey's top general warned that ties with the United States, already strained by attacks from rebels hiding in Iraq, will be irreversibly damaged if Congress passes a resolution that labels the World War I-era killings of Armenians a genocide. ...more

October 15, 2007