Congress News http://www.news-spider.com/Politics/Congress/index.html Latest Congress News from news-spider.com. News from more than 2,000 sources, updated continuously. en-us Copyright (c) 2008 news-spider.com. All rights reserved. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:10:14 GMT US lawmaker: Bring back air-safety survey http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1216938623 AP - The U.S. should revive and expand an aviation safety survey run by NASA to identify problems like lapses in inspections that canceled thousands of flights this past spring, the chairman of a Hous ... http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1216938623 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:54:50 GMT GOP kills effort to release oil from US stockpile http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1216938624 AP - House Republicans have killed a Democratic effort to release 70 million barrels of oil from the government's emergency stockpile. Democrats hoped the extra oil would have helped lower pump prices ... http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1216938624 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:54:29 GMT House leaders double up on ethics watchdogs http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1216938626 AP - House leaders on Thursday announced the six members and two alternatives who will make up the Office of Congressional Ethics, an outside independent group created to restore integrity to a flawed ... http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1216938626 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:48:19 GMT House ready to OK $48B in global AIDS fight http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1216927778 AP - Expanding on a program that has saved and prolonged the lives of millions in Africa alone, the House prepared Thursday to pass and send to President Bush legislation that triples money to fight A ... http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1216927778 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:58:02 GMT McCain Firing Away http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1216924108 Well, the coverage of Barack Obama's trip has reached the point that the media are now nightly fodder for the "Daily Show," where the intrepid correspondents talk about how, uh, aroused they are cover ... http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1216924108 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:44:58 GMT Investors grab Fannie, Freddie after House vote http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1216924130 Reuters - Investors snapped up shares of mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac before Wall Street opened on Thursday, a day after the House of Representatives passed a massive rescue pack ... http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1216924130 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:28:30 GMT Mass. House initially approves gender-neutral law http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1216927781 AP - The Massachusetts House of Representatives has given its initial approval to a bill that would require all future legislation be written in language that is gender neutral. http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1216927781 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:08:38 GMT House committee probes medically unfit truckers http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1216898723 AP - It's so easy to fabricate the medical certificates required to operate commercial trucks on the nation's highways that there's almost no incentive for truckers to obtain a legitimate document, ac ... http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1216898723 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:46:37 GMT Housing bill won't solve market's problems http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1216895261 AP - Cash-strapped homebuyers and borrowers facing foreclosure will get some relief from a housing bill passed by the House on Wednesday but the bill won't solve the deep-rooted ills of the U.S. housi ... http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1216895261 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:02:40 GMT U.S. Senate to Take Up Fannie-Freddie Bill After House Approval http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1216909656 Bloomberg - July 24 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Senate plans to considerthe housing legislation designed to shore up confidence inFannie Mae and Freddie Mac and stem record mortgage foreclosuresafter the ... http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1216909656 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:01:00 GMT