The chairman of AIG has told Congress he's asked executives to give back their bonuses. The chief executive officer of the failed insurance conglomerate acknowledged Wednesday that the company's multimillion-dollar bonuses were "distasteful" to many and had provoked a firestorm of wrath. "I share that anger," Edward Liddy, chairman and CEO of the American International Group Inc., said in testimony prepared for Congress. ...more

March 18, 2009

The Senate on Tuesday voted to scrap the system that awards members of Congress an automatic cost-of-living pay raise every year. ...more

March 17, 2009

Google announced Wednesday it will begin showing ads to people based on their previous online activities in a form of advertising known as behavioral targeting, which has been embraced by most of its competitors but has drawn criticism from privacy advocates and some members of Congress. ...more

March 12, 2009

The sight of the nation's capital lit up at night still inspires U.S. Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite whenever she returns to Washington, D.C. ...more

March 11, 2009

President Barack Obama's decision to lift restrictions on federal funding of human embryonic stem-cell research, scheduled to be announced today, is expected to provide a major boost to one of the most promising but controversial fields of biomedical research in generations. ...more

March 9, 2009

When it comes to earmarks, one man's pig stink is another man's bacon. No kidding. ...more

March 8, 2009

Gerald Roach of Hudson doesn't believe the "handouts" in President Barack Obama's economic plan will assure America's future. ...more

March 6, 2009

Unlike Rush Limbaugh, we don't want President Barack Obama to fail. If he does, then our country fails. We do, however, want Obama to do what he's been saying all along, and that's to change the way Washington, D.C., does business - and that includes changing the baloney that's going on with Democratic members of Congress. ...more

March 6, 2009

Former top Bush aides Karl Rove and Harriet Miers agreed Wednesday to testify before Congress under oath about the firings of U.S. attorneys, a controversy involving allegations of political interference that grew into a constitutional standoff between two branches of government. ...more

March 4, 2009

Not a great speech, but extremely consequential. If Barack Obama succeeds, his joint address to Congress will be seen as historic - indeed as the foundational document of Obamaism. As it stands, it constitutes the boldest social democratic manifesto ever issued by a U.S. president. ...more

March 1, 2009